More good news today, had another one of my images used for a book cover. Really quite happy about this one as it is one of my urbex photos used this time, rather than one of the the more ‘normal’ shots. The shot was taken at Paton’s Mill in Scotland, sadly mostly burned down now. [...]
The Broadford works in Aberdeen has at times had a chequered past, whilst also enjoying many ‘firsts’ and remarkable attributes in its history spanning over more than two centuries. The mill occupies a massive site of over 32,000 square meters right in the centre of Aberdeen, though this has expanded over the years from the [...]
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 [...]
