An assortment of derelict odds and ends: houses, hill-farms, small factories &c. that don't quite fit anywhere else, found on my travels in England and Wales from 2015 to 2021.
School staff housing, Sussex, May 2021Severn Bridge Railway Tunnel, Glos., May 2021 Built by the Severn Bridge Railway
Company between 1875-78, this 506-yard tunnel formed part of the western approach to an enormous cast iron
railway bridge of 4,162 feet which spanned the river, joining the Forest of Dean to the port of Sharpness.
The line was closed perforce in October 1960 when the bridge collapsed after being struck by two barges in
thick fog.
House in the hedge, Kempe's Corner, Kent, Nov. 2020
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Disused farm near Bignor, Sussex, Dec. 2019.
Near Burgess Hill, Sussex, Dec. 2019.
House of books, near Wivelsfield, Sussex, Aug. 2019.
Derelict wind-pump, Newdigate, Surrey. June 2019
NCB Coal Washery, Hafodyrynys, Glam., May 2019 The new pit at Hafodyrynys was sunk between 1911 and 1914. Following nationalisation, this was linked underground with three other nearby collieries in a £5.5 million investment scheme begun in 1954. The new colliery buildings and washery were designed along functionalist lines for maximum efficiency. This was short-lived, however, with the pit being closed in 1966 and most of the buildings cleared away in 1985.
Penallta Colliery, Hengoed, Glam., May 2019 Sunk in 1906 by the Powell Duffryn Coal Company, Penallta became one of the largest and most profitable collieries on the South Wales Coalfield. It was closed by British Coal in 1991, making it one of Wales' last deep coal mines.
Ysgoldy Olmarch, Llangybi, Cards., May 2019
Old shack near Ewhurst, Surrey, Christmas 2018
Shermanbury sawmill, Sussex, December 2018
Castletown Trawler De Bounty lying derelict at Newhaven, Sussex, 2018
St. Peter's Hospital Mortuary, Surrey, 2018 St Peter's opened in 1939 as an Emergency Medical Service hospital in the grounds of Botley's Park Colony, a hospital for patients with learning disabilities. The mortuary closed c. 2000, being replaced by a facility in the main hospital complex.
Hurst Hill Cottage, Horsham Rural, Sussex, 2018
Disused Lister engine and DANDO pump, Warnham, Sussex, 2017.
Snowerhill House, Betchworth, Surrey, 2017 Since demolished
Medmerry Bombing Range, Sussex, 2017
Waste Destructor, Sompting, Sussex, 2017
Leswidden China Clay Works, Cornwall, 2017
Lower Bostraze China Clay Works, Cornwall, 2017
Llwynwnwch, New Row, Ceredigion, 2017
Slate workings, Great Langdale, Cumbria, 2016.
Hang Man Barn, Itchingfield, Sussex, 2016. Nobody is quite sure how this old barn came by its gruesome name; some say a local court would to condemn prisoners to be hanged from the crossbeam, others that a miserable wayfarer took his own life here one lonely night. It has been derelict for as long as I can remember, and is dangerously close to collapse.
Former Olympia Electric Theatre (detail), Chichester, Sussex, 2016. The former cinema, now used as a prop store for the Festival Theatre, was painted with a huge mural by Italian street-artist RUN in 2013.
Disused bookmaker's kiosk, St Roche's Hill, overlooking Goodwood Racecourse, 2016.
