Miscellany
A growing assortment of derelict odds and ends: houses, hill-farms, small factories &c., found on my travels in England and Wales from 2004 to 2014.
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Sandstone Quarry, Sussex, 2014.
A small quarry extracting fine-grade sand for the iron industry up until the 1940s.
Fisher's Garage, Broadbridge Heath, Sussex, 2013
St. Anthony's House, Surrey, 2012
Penglais University Farm, Aberystwyth, 2011
Established in early 1939, the farm was at the forefront of livestock innovation.
Many staff
were seconded to the service of the War Agricultural Committees, while
remaining staff made considerable contributions to increasing wartime food production.
After the War, the work of the farm continued with scientists working to develop higher yielding breeds
of cattle, pigs and sheep, new feeds and new treatments for livestock. It closed in 2010 and was
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House fire/arson, Charlwood, Surrey, 2014
Netherne Hospital Cemetery, Surrey, 2014.
About 1,350 people are buried in this quiet corner of a Surrey field;
psychiatric patients, wounded soldiers and relatives of hospital staff. It has been neglected since the 1990s at least.
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Derelict Chicken Sheds, Surrey, 2013
Ruperra Castle, Glamorgan, 2013.
Built in 1626, the castle fell into ruin during the Second World War.
Family papers dumped in an old poultry barn near Slinfold, Sussex, 2013
Graylingwell Hospital, Sussex, 2012. Formerly the West Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Graylingwell opened in 1897 and closed in 2001.
Wassell Mill Cottage, Ebernoe, Sussex, 2012
Tai'r Felin, Bont Goch, Ceredigion, 2011
Scout Camp, Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion, 2011.
Bridges Wood House, Burstow, Surrey, 2011.
Bedfont Court Smallholdings, near Heathrow, 2011.
An estate of smallholdings built after the First World War by the Middlesex County Council; compulsorily purchased for airport expansion in 2001.
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Stormy Limeworks, Glamorgan, 2011. Established to feed the iron and steel works nearby with lime used as
a fluxing agent in order to separate off slag, this quarry and associated factory seems to have closed about 2001. |
Morfa Uchaf Blaenplwyf, Ceredigion, 2011
Ffos Las Farmhouse, Ceredigion, 2011
Llanfarian-Pentrebont, Ceredigion, 2011
East Surrey College, Redhill, 2010
HMS Stalker, Pound's Yard, Portsmouth, 2010.
Laid down by Canadian Yarrow of Esquimalt, Canada in 1944 and completed in 1945, Landing Ship (Tank) 3515 arrived
too late to play any role in the War, instead being commissioned as HMS Stalker,
a submarine support vessel based in Londonderry. Stalker was later transferred to Rosyth dockyard
as part of the nuclear submarine refit support fleet, but was declared surplus in 2002; she was
broken up shortly after this photograph was taken.
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Lletysynod, New Row, Ceredigion, 2010
Boys' Village Holiday Camp, Glamorgan, 2010.
The Boys' Village was the brainchild of Lord Davies of Llandinam,
president of the Ocean Coal Company and Capt. J, Glynn-Jones, the company's Welfare Officer, opened in 1925 as
holiday village where the young men of the South Wales Coalfield could socialise and engage in healthy excercise
away from the polluted industrial towns of the valleys. It closed in 1990 due to dwindling attendances and
spiraling costs. |
Ynyslas WW2 Rocket Range, Ceredigion, 2010.
This once top-sectet proving ground hosted early experiments
in long-range guided missile technology which in peacetime would eventually
lead to rockets capable of launching satellites into space. |
Smith's Cottages, Pontrhydygroes, Ceredigion, 2010
Boswell's Farm, Oakwood Hill, Surrey, 2009
Oddstones, Codmore Hill, Sussex, 2009
Carmarthen Infirmary, 2009
Chichester City FC old ground, 2009
Our Lady of Pity, Burpham, Surrey, 2008
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