234 Comments Posted by rich_edwards79

Ah I see. What in the UK we'd call 'borstal' or a young offenders institution. I was wandering around the grounds of one in Leeds a few days ago, been derelict about a year (no chance of gettin inside the buildings though, EVERY single access point is sealed tighter than a camel's ass in a sandstorm :( - probably because there are a few stories circulating about some rather high-profile offenders who lived there before it closed.

Ginsu Victim, I'm with you on the calendar idea. I'd also love to have framed prints of a few of these images for the walls of my big, dilapidated Victorian house - they're so cool and would suit the place to a T...

The closest anything in this set comes to being creepy... the rest is just melancholic (but cool as hell).

WTF is that?

Looks like the demon child of a CD and an LP that got together in someone's record box lol!

I wish I could get hold of one of these wall-mounted dialler phones for my kitchen - though I don't think I'd paint it the same colour as the wall :-s

'Tis a recessed spotlight in a protective box that would have been fitted above a suspended ceiling, and is now supported only by its power cable.

Though I like the soap dispenser theory (I'm assuming there is some kind of in-joke on these pages regarding light fixtures and soap dispensers) :-)

This shot reminds me of my first glimpse in fifteen years of the main building of the holiday chalet village on the south coast of England where my family always stayed as a child. I revisited it a couple of years back and every ceiling was down, every roadway so choked with brambles and nettles it was impossible to drive along. The playground and pools where I made many summertime friends were barely visible above eight-foot grasses, the timber terrace of the chalet where I have many happy memories was part collapsed and choked with weeds. I can imagine that many of those who stayed here feel as desolate at seeing these images as I did that day. Sad to think that places that mean so much to so many people are vulnerable like any other business to the ebb and flow of the economic cycle :(

Strange to see all the loungers just stacked up where they were left at the end of the final season. I wonder what all the people who once worked and stayed at this place would say if they could see it now. Derelict holiday resorts always have a strange kind of melancholy for me just because you know that so many happy summers were spent here and childhood memories made that are still precious to this day.

Pie if it's true that many acts started at these big resorts, I bet that many now-famous faces once trod these boards.This place sooooo makes me think of a snowbound Dirty Dancing.

Weird to see the 'growing carpet' in the first few pics next to this!

I guess Mother Nature works to her own rules...

Damn I want that for MY bathroom!

I wonder if it was a Jacuzzi too :-)

Text 'M' for Murder lol! And yes I have one like that, complete with old-time bell ringer. In the UK the Post Office used to rent phones to you up until the 80s because you weren't allowed to plug your own equipment into the system, so everyone had one of these!

Bathroom colours could be Thirties Deco or Fifties (there was a bit of a revival!) Makes me think of Grease for some reason - or aluminium Airstream diners...

Thirties handrails, Sixties lighting, Eighties partitions to the top of the stairwell. This place has had more facelifts over the years than Liz Taylor... and probably looks better :)

I bet the conditions need to be just right for this - big picture windows for plenty of light, a sopping wet carpet due to water ingress, and God only knows how the seeds got there. It's almost heartening to see nature reclaiming the place so quickly but scary too. If our civilisation was wiped out tomorrow by a plague or comet strike, I wonder how much would remain of our amazing, complex society in a couple of hundred years :-s