Tatami Mats pool The football field at Macquarie

The football field at Macquarie Boys Technology High School

the sole surviving Cape Class vessel

A concrete ramp drops into the two-level basement of the former Balmain Leagues Club

Desks and open books sit where classrooms once ran through eight years of operation before the coal economy made them redundant

Tatami Mats pool The football field at MacquarieTatami mats stacked in a derelict classroom at Family School Fureai, Yubari, their woven rush surfaces worn from years of use. The former Asahi Elementary School building was converted to group lodging in the mid 1990s, with classrooms refloored with tatami for overnight guests. Part of the Family School Fureai series.