This is a site I’ve explored many times, probably one of the sites I have explored the most in fact, but yet it still manages to throw up new things when you go off the beaten track a little bit. After seeing a pic by a friend of something I hadnt seen, i decided to [...]
For a bit of a change, rather than just shooting empty derelict buildings, a fellow and I headed up to an asylum today with on of his friends to do a bit of a model shoot in a local asylum. A fun day, and got quite a few pics I was happy with:
A few of [...]
Hellingly Asylum, or East Sussex County Mental asylum was opened in 1903, another of the asylums to be attributed to the great G.T. Hine, which is evident as soon as you look at the facade of the buildings or the brown tiling in corridors etc. Built in woodlands nearby to Hellingly in the very south [...]
Well, as you all know yesterday was the big day for the court appearance for Rookinella and her cohorts.
As some people had noticed, the online listings for Forfar showed that they were not listed to be in court there. None of the other local courts showed them listed either, but a wee bit digging soon [...]
I got a call from a friend on his way home from work saying there was smoke coming from the Dunston Staiths, so I took a quick wander along there with the camera and sure enough someone had set it on fire, sadly. Thankfully it wasn’t too bad a fire, and the fire brigade were [...]
This is a cross post from a private forum:
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Im not sure if im meant to tell everyone what has gone on… then again i dont care.
Rookinella and her band of merry men were caught inside Stracathro hospital this week gone, and got arrested for being found in an enclosed space and for intent to [...]
The Wallsend Borough Theatre opened in 1910, designed and built by J Fleming Davidson & C D James and became Wallsend’s main theatre following the Corned Beef Tin theatre being burned down some 4 years previous. An operating box at the rear of the circle was installed in 1911 making this capable of being both [...]
Inverkip Power Station is located on the east coast of Scotland at the Firth of Clyde, near to the town of Inverkip with which it shares a name. Construction of the site began in 1970 and ran to an estimated cost of £200 million, aiming for production of 1,900 MW of electricity. Destined to be [...]
Being the first lunatic asylum in Wales, the North Wales Hospital (Denbigh Asylum) was built between 1844 and its opening in 1848. The need for the asylum had been of pressing importance, as with no formal mental facilities in Wales there was a severe lacking in sufficient care for mental patients of welsh origin and [...]
I was recently contacted by Photographer magazine of Ukraine (not a lot of point in clicking as it is in cyrillic) magainze and asked if i would do an article on Urbex and HDR, which i agreed to do.
As the magazine wont be in english print, unless the article gets syndicated to one of their [...]
