Decaying Tuition Room hatch operated under the Purnell Shoe

operated under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s before closing as cheap imports dismantled the local footwear industry

It is the kind of tool that would have seen daily use in the Sundell Holden workshop and service centre on Smith Street

its surface marked by corrosion from years of exposure

Fire Damage at Yarraville

even when the street was otherwise empty

Decaying Tuition Room hatch operated under the Purnell ShoeA solitary desk sits beneath peeling paint in the tuition room of Family School Fureai, a converted reinforced concrete school building in Yubari, Hokkaido. The building served as Asahi Elementary School from 1975 to 1983, then as a public lodging facility operated by Yubari Kanko Kaihatsu until 2006, when it was abandoned as the city entered fiscal rehabilitation. Part of the Family School Fureai series.