General - Cr8erlake, Croydon

[Olkka]

Hidden away in a dense and maze-like South London suburb, just a 5 minute walk from where I grew up, Cr8erlake (affectionately named due to its sunken kind of setting at the bottom of a hill each side) is a super sentimental and providential one. Not one iota of vandalism or graffiti exists within its perametres, which to the best of our detective skills have been disused/unwanted since around 2005. It's not the indoor spa facilities, amphibian biodiversity, or utter lack of interest from any kind of authority that each makes it a winner, it's got to be the most likely candidate for kickstarting my pursuit of abandoned places as a hobby in the very beginning.
For more history and musings: http://visitortoamuseum.weebly.com/cr8erlake

 

[Andrew32]

very impressive stuff, shame my sentiental abandoned place was demolished years ago.

 

[Olkka]

very impressive stuff, shame my sentiental abandoned place was demolished years ago.

Thanks homie. Yeah, it's so easy to get sentimental about spots ! I grew up near Cane Hill too and an innocent 13-year-old frolic around the wards just before demolition was my other gateway drug into this. Still get a sunken heart when I relook at pictures of how it was, I was rather too young to appreciate all the intruiges of its vast interior back then. What was your sentimental place by the way? My sympathies for your loss.

 

[Andrew32]

not quite no family loss, so no sympathies needed. It was my sisters school, and the only evidence of it was old street view images and my own memory.

 

[Olkka]

It's all over... Can't believe it. Life doth taketh away sometimes.