General Photo Thread

[Esoteric Eric]

The last time the scaffold was up there circa 2009ish? A good few of us made it up. Squirrel and bunk3r got the best ones I think. Did you get up close to see the famous time ball?

I didn't, this was rather impromptu during a normie day just taking advantage of the scaff

 

[mookster]

thats a lovely line up

If I'm correct, and I think I am, it was all auctioned off by H.J. Pugh recently, most of it likely went to scrap as a lot of the trucks were bought up by one of the largest scrap metal recycling centres in the area sadly.

 

[Llama]

A few shots from a permission visit in June to one of London's church belltowers...
Kindly made possible by my good friend @GG

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[dansgas1000]

That looks amazing @Llama

 

[Wastelandr]

Not worth doing a report on but was in Bristol this weekend and whilst hungover I did a quick swing by the Barrow Hospital site to take a quick look at this surviving building. The rest is now demolished/converted to housing. Didn't go inside as I wasn't in a great state but I got the impression it may not have been worth it, although I thought the building was in a lot worse state than it was so perhaps I was getting mixed up with a different one that's demod now. Here's some history and also my thoughts on the architecture/design of the hospital:​

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Barrow Hospital Entrance Lodge

Barrow Hospital at Barrow Gurney near Bristol was the last ever of the county 'asylum' mental hospital institutions in England and Wales, officially opening in 1939; two years after Runwell in Essex which stuck to a more conventional interconnected building layout. The last surviving building of the hospital, aside from staff houses and a highly ruined villa, is this; the entrance lodge.

Barrow was different in that it formed a colony of individual villa-type buildings; a method proposed for asylums since the late 19th century, taking off in Europe, America and in Scotland (Bangour Village) but only ever attempted here in England once as designers were apprehensive about adopting this non-traditional layout.

The style of the villas are unique with their domestic mansard roofs, and the architectural style was distinctly plain and modern, yet not in the slightly more indulgent Art Deco style of Runwell (although its nurses' block also made use of a similar mansard-roof). Instead, it suggests a shift towards the functional modernism of post-war architecture, making this place unique.

 

[TalkingMask]

Nothing interesting, but a couple photos from my outing around Stockport today with my girlfriend. Working on our photography skills!

Photos from her

Ending with some excellent photos my missus took.

 

[Ryhs]

Old Fortress In Türkiye

 

[TalkingMask]

Sheffield trip with the Missus today.

A&E Warehouse

William Rowland

Union Carbide remains

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[mookster]

As I was in the area the other weekend I had a little wander around the derelict scrapyard in Finedon - I first shot this right about six years ago now, and the area surrounding it, as well as the place itself, is almost unrecognisable. At least I got my criminally under-used 30mm prime out for a play, although the dappled sunlight was a nightmare.

 

[paulpowers]

Permanite near Matlock now has a large fence around it and loads of cameras which are actually monitored

 

[HughieD]

Permanite near Matlock now has a large fence around it and loads of cameras which are actually monitored

Bizarre given it was a total walk-in for so long and there's nothing of any value on the site itself...

 

[paulpowers]

Bizarre given it was a total walk-in for so long and there's nothing of any value on the site itself...

Yeah the only thing I can think is that they're going to demo the site because it's not worth saving
Security was sound

 

[mookster]

Yeah the only thing I can think is that they're going to demo the site because it's not worth saving
Security was sound

Or they got fed up of the parties and stuff going on and put them up before someone got hurt or worse, as it was so easy to do.

 

[FreshFingers]

 

[Nothingtonobody]

These are some excellent photographs! I love the second photograph, the black and white is very effective.