Workshop Sunset Size:XL part of the self-contained community

part of the self-contained community Nitchitsu built around Chichibu Mine

built an entire community around Chichibu Mine

built to last and left when the work moved on

built to service the factory workforce that manufactured precision totalisator systems for racecourses across 29 countries

The machine is approximately 135 years old

Workshop Sunset Size:XL part of the self-contained communityWarm afternoon light cuts across a derelict workshop floor at Halvorsens Boat Yard in Putney, lifting dust motes through the air and picking out the outlines of forgotten machinery and tools. The facility once included engineering workshops, blacksmithing and lumber shops, machine shops, and sheet metal fabrication areas, all serving a boatyard that built 1,299 craft between 1925 and 1976. Part of the Halvorsen's Boat Yard series.