Umagae Street Size:L Part of the Northcote Shoe

Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series

Built in 1939 as the Manning Valley's largest employer

Structures like this represent the furthest reach of rural settlement across New South Wales

dense mountain forest pressing in on three sides

photographed in 2016 after a decade of abandonment

Umagae Street Size:L Part of the Northcote ShoeRendered concrete and weathered weatherboard buildings line both sides of a narrow road through Umagae Street in Yubari on a wet winter day. Power lines cross overhead, and two traffic cones sit on a collapsed blue tiled forecourt to the left. At peak, Yubari's population reached 107,972; fewer than 6,000 people remain today. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.