Lets See Your Abandoned and Dilapidated Buildings / Ruins

Terrycanon wrote in post #19553842

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Looks like maybe that was a little home shop added on to the house at one time.

Old factory in IR

Just up the road

Border building in Czech Republic in the border with Austria. Now that no borders exist it's left abandoned.

Old Villa somewhere in north Attica

Weather-beaten seafront building in Western Scotland.

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An overgrown Defensive Machine gun Pillbox stands like a silent Sentinal on what was once RAF Hunsdon in Hertfordshire (1941-1945) While the Parachute packing Store survives on the other side of the long disused airfield.

An abandoned old radio station on the Scottish coast. It was used to assist ships in trouble. Now satellites do the job.

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Terrycanon wrote in post #19559834
An abandoned old radio station on the Scottish coast. It was used to assist ships in trouble. Now satellites do the job.

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nice capture, the way the clouds and the lighting really emphasize the texture of the building the blue pipe is just a bonus. Very well executed.

This does not appear abandoned; it seems it's being preserved.
Solid window shutters, maintained lawn; it all looks like a preservation effort
to maintain a historical site of importance from the World Wars.

I suspect it carries a large historical importance in the role it had
during wartime years in its placement and function on the Scottish coast,
and is not actually an abandoned structure left to crumble and decay.

Likely awaiting proper funding from a historical society,
it seems the site is rather well secured, and is awaiting the funding
being secured by a historical society before it can be properly be
refurbished or stabilized before it's opened to the general public
as an historical point-of-interest site.

SkedAddled wrote in post #19560256
This does not appear abandoned; it seems it's being preserved.
Solid window shutters, maintained lawn; it all looks like a preservation effort
to maintain a historical site of importance from the World Wars.

I suspect it carries a large historical importance in the role it had
during wartime years in its placement and function on the Scottish coast,
and is not actually an abandoned structure left to crumble and decay.

Likely awaiting proper funding from a historical society,
it seems the site is rather well secured, and is awaiting the funding
being secured by a historical society before it can be properly be
refurbished or stabilized before it's opened to the general public
as an historical point-of-interest site.

Thank you for your thoughts, but you're making some big assumptions there, Craig. This is Britain, not the rich US. I was told by a local that it's been left to crumble for years, so it's effectively abandoned and it will probably cost more to pull it down than do anything else with it. Shame, but.... That's hardly a lawn, by the way. Just weed-ridden, rough, cliff-top land. Anyway, I thought it made a decent picture.

Mike Dodd wrote in post #19560235
nice capture, the way the clouds and the lighting really emphasize the texture of the building the blue pipe is just a bonus. Very well executed.

Many thanks, Mike.

Terrycanon wrote in post #19560407
Thank you for your thoughts, but you're making some big assumptions there, Craig. This is Britain, not the rich US. I was told by a local that it's been left to crumble for years, so it's effectively abandoned and it will probably cost more to pull it down than do anything else with it. Shame, but.... That's hardly a lawn, by the way. Just weed-ridden, rough, cliff-top land. Anyway, I thought it made a decent picture.

The US isn't so rich in this, Terry, and we've lost a lot of heritage in our buildings.

I posited how I saw it from a US citizen's eyes, and I was wrong.

It's a shame, really, that many countries won't recognize the history they have
in what remains from historic eras.

Detroit has a huge glut of buildings in the National Register of Historic Places,
while the local population is stuck in a glut of apathy and indecision about
appropriating funds for preservation and restoration.

We used to have so many buildings worthy of the EU and other countries to admire,
but they were left to crumble after modernism came to be popular.

I'm completely ashamed of the disregard we in the US give to historically
and architecturally important structures in the US, and bemoan their
demise when their destruction could have been reuse purposes.

If you think England/Scotland/EU hasn't been preserving their structures so well,
come to the US, where you'll be devastated.

SkedAddled wrote in post #19560481
The US isn't so rich in this, Terry, and we've lost a lot of heritage in our buildings.

I posited how I saw it from a US citizen's eyes, and I was wrong.

It's a shame, really, that many countries won't recognize the history they have
in what remains from historic eras.

Detroit has a huge glut of buildings in the National Register of Historic Places,
while the local population is stuck in a glut of apathy and indecision about
appropriating funds for preservation and restoration.

We used to have so many buildings worthy of the EU and other countries to admire,
but they were left to crumble after modernism came to be popular.

I'm completely ashamed of the disregard we in the US give to historically
and architecturally important structures in the US, and bemoan their
demise when their destruction could have been reuse purposes.

If you think England/Scotland/EU hasn't been preserving their structures so well,
come to the US, where you'll be devastated.

Thanks, Craig. It's an interesting topic. When I first went to the States and Canada 50-odd years ago, I was amazed at how many old buidings there were. I had stupidly imagined that they would all be bright, shiny, fairly modern ones! Daft, I know. You obviously feel strongly about their preservation. Good luck in your campaign.