Here you can see my very large photo collection exploring the world of dereliction.
Much effort and many adventures were had locating these places and getting inside.
Click on an image below to visit the subsection where you will be able to click on individual locations. Enjoy
Asylums
Big roving campuses for the mad and bad (and just those sad people who other people felt they couldn’t look after in in the domain of normal society)
These places were huge, sometimes supporting 10’s of thousands of in-mates and were often totally self reliant, with their own utilities, health and food production.
Hospitals & Medical
Hospitals
Mortuaries
Research Facilities
Medical Schools
Care Homes
I am especially fond of old clinical buildings as they have generally seen a lot of human life events.
Power Stations
Big structures with a control room, if you are lucky.
These are the biggest of the ‘industrial’ types of buildings I visit, and they often have a lot of style, being the national pride of large scale infrastructure
Factories & Industry
Making things
Destroying things
Processing things
Mining for things
and all other things to things
These rust buckets always have wonderful light and reflections and invariably there are non-industrial related surprises inside.
Military
Research
Defence
Training
Always feels special, being somewhere where you feel there were secrets not meant to be seen by civillians like myself.
Manors & Houses
Small houses
Big houses
Lots of personal artefacts in these places that reflect on the lives of the last occupants. Given the derelict and uncleared state of these places, the history always feels a little sad.
Entertainment & Sport
Swimming Pools
Sports facilities
Cinemas
Bowling Alleys.
These always feel melancholoy, because you can almost smell the past happiness and fun times. You wonder where the spiral of failure began.
State & Infrastructure
Schools & Orphanages
Courts & Prisons
State Homes
Transport
Churches & Graveyards
Graffiti
If its got some lovely paint on it…..
Other Stuff
Burnt Out Cars
Random Buildings
Shops
Wrecked Cars
& Anything else