Share your favourite abandoned / derelict places pictures here

Ross1975 · February 10

There is something that has always struck me about this picture, it was a very small picture so I had to use Ai to upscale it.

The picture was taken in 1996, it was a mill? on a canal in Leuven, Belgium. It looks like a reflection in a partly frozen puddle or the canal itself, yet the name on the building is the correct way around, so I guess whoever uploaded the picture mirrored it.

I like the fact the pictures and videos are taken of abandoned / derelict places as it allows them to live on forever basically, long after they've been demolished and disappeared.

Wibbles · February 10

Here's my favourite abandoned place - guess where it is/was ?

Ross1975 · February 11

I can imagine there being skeletons in there, Wibbles.

A derelict factory in Saint Petersburg.

66Mustang · February 11

I don't know why but I always liked the idea (presuming I had a house with a big enough plot) of having a derelict barn

They always seem to have a kind of aura to them which I think is not entirely pleasant to most people, but that I find interesting

I can only compare it - partially - to how rich people in the old days used to build a "folly", which was a brand new but intentionally derelict house on the grounds of their mansion - which they sometimes allowed a servant to live in

Mary_Scope · February 11

This is a very ghostly thread @Ross1975, do you watch youtube videos where people explore abandoned places? Some of them are fascinating!

Ross1975 · February 11

Mary_Scope, sometimes yes. I used love messing around in them myself with my friends when I was a kid.

Here is one of them that me and my friends went into in the late 80's, it was Wrigley Head mill in Failsworth next to the Rochdale canal which we watched get demolished from the railway tracks in around 1990. Where the ground had been dug up next to the mill some really old broken bottles with marble stoppers? and really old broken white clay pipes were revealed, maybe the mill used to make make them many years ago?

Ross1975 · February 11

Speaking of ghostly… A center for social and cultural activities for Soviet citizens, captured in early morning fog, in Kotelnich, Kirov Oblast.

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Ross1975 · February 23

A Soviet electronics factory. I wonder why the doors are so thick? Took me a while to notice that.

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Santosha12 · February 23

This is the abandoned 5th floor ballroom in the former Lewis's building on Market Street, Manchester, latterly Primark. I went to the Centenery party, I think in 1980 or 1981.

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