Lets See Your Abandoned and Dilapidated Buildings / Ruins

SkedAddled wrote in post #19259072
Yes, it's common in abandoned structures which are open.
It piles up high under the birds' favorite roosts.

FarmerTed1971 wrote in post #19259104
Indeed it is! Many decades worth.

I thank you both!!!

SkedAddled wrote in post #19259072
Yes, it's common in abandoned structures which are open.
It piles up high under the birds' favorite roosts.

I saw on the TV mini series Planet Earth a bat cave. The pile from millions of bats was hundreds of feet tall.

Charleston, Arizona territory.
Charleston was the bedroom community for Millville.
Millvile had the stamp mills that processed the ore from the Tombstone mines
They became ghost towns after the mines in Tombstone flooded.

What's left of Millville, Arizona Territory.

Along the lines of abandoned mines this is the top of the old gold mine at Salsigne in the Montagne Noir, Aude France. It dates back to Roman times and they also mined arsenic there and over time it leached into the River Clamoux and while we were there the farmers were banned from selling anything that had been grown on the river side! They were NOT chuffed about it! The river has now been cleaned up and all is normal again, although who knows just how long it had been plouted before they acted?

Jonzjob wrote in post #19259983
Along the lines of abandoned mines this is the top of the old gold mine at Salsigne in the Montagne Noir, Aude France. It dates back to Roman times and they also mined arsenic there and over time it leached into the River Clamoux and while we were there the farmers were banned from selling anything that had been grown on the river side! They were NOT chuffed about it! The river has now been cleaned up and all is normal again, although who knows just how long it had been plouted before they acted?

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I believe that the last mine owner was Rio Tinto, if I have the name correct?

Do you have any idea when this tower may have been built, and what was the purpose for this tower?

I am assuming the two wheels at top used to have maybe leather belts going around them?

When you see towers like that over a pit they are the lift towers that raise and drop the blokes who are silly enough to work god knows how far under the earth Charles. I say drop because of the speed they go down I can't find out when the tower was built, bit possibly in the 1990s when the Aussies bought and modernised the place? I am probably wrong, but that seems to be a logical time?

There is no way on this Earth of ours that you could get me to go down there!

In my above post I said that it was the River Clamoux and it didn't sound right. It's the River Orbiel.

I hadn't realised that the mine only closed just before we moved over to France in August 2004. Salsigne is not one of the nicer villages in the Aude, in my humble opinion that is

All of the info that I have was given to me by the French folk who have lived most of their lives in the area, but on reading some of the info on the web it differs in a lot of places. This makes interesting reading

https://www.aditnow.co​.uk …2FBF03214749-Salsigne.pdf

Ex Ward 17 & 18 at Greenlane Hospital, Auckland.

Like how the front of the building stands out against the sky and foreground.

Týnec Chateau is a Baroque chateau located in the middle of the village of Týnec, southwest of Klatovy. It is one of the first examples of Baroque mansions in Bohemia. It is a building from the beginning of the 18th century built according to the plans of the Baroque architect Giovanni Battista Alliprandi by the Kolovrat family. In 2000, the current owner began gradual steps to save and reconstruct the castle.

There seems to be a lot to do over there.

South of Courtland, Arizona

They demolished the oldest firehouse in Portland yesterday...

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2mgG​HWT

FarmerTed1971 wrote in post #19270750
They demolished the oldest firehouse in Portland yesterday...

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2mgG​HWT Firehouse Number Two by Scott Tice, on Flickr

Bummer. To bad they did not keep the old building.