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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

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

Fisher's Garage, Broadbridge Heath, Sussex, 2013


St. Anthony's House, Surrey, 2012

St. Anthony's House, Surrey, 2012


Experimental Farm, Aberystwyth, 2011

Experimental Farm, Aberystwyth, 2011

Experimental Farm, Aberystwyth, 2011

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 later redeveloped for student accommodation.





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.









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.





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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