Abandoned Places.

[icyfroth]

Going through the BUILDING photo thread, it struck me how many abandoned and places there are around the world. Tunnels, Factories, Railway Stations, Hotels, Houses etc.

Like the old shipwrecking yard in Homebush Bay:

Image credits: Bruce Hood

This is the hull of the SS Ayrfield, a large steam ship condemned to dismantling in Homebush Bay, Australia after WWII. When the dismantling yard closed down, however, it and several other ships remained where they were. Now, it is a beautiful and haunting floating forest that serves as an example of nature’s capacity for survival.

It's near the Sydney Olympics 2000 site.

Does anyone else have any favourite abandoned places stories?

[katymatey*]

Posted this one in a photo thread.

My grandparents home, left abandoned when my grandmother went into care. It makes me sad.

[icyfroth]

Is it still standing? And what will happen with it ultimately?

There's a place like that in Riverstone, been in a state of decay for years and years.

[horizon1907]

I see that photo as quite beautiful. All the memories that the home has. If the walls could talk !!! 🙂 

[lloydslights]

The place in Richmond, Icy, is probably on land that a Developer has bought and is awaiting further suburban growth.  Many houses in the outer surrounds of Sydney have become abandoned for that reason.

The "attachment' has been lost to the master - MONEY. The former landholders had millions of $s dangled before their eyes which they grabbed with glee.  The former battlers who fed Sydney.

Further,  the building may be of historical value.  But it's condition is let decline so that it becomes beyond repair;  ensuring that a new house will replace it.  Whereby he makes more profit.  

Right now, he isn't worrying about added costs like bringing the house up to scratch with up-to-date safe electrical wiring, and non rusty water pipes and sewerage and an asbestos free zone for those pesky tenants.  

Of course, different circumstances for others here on this board.

DEB

[lloydslights]

I feel that the old homes with character, are those that have a verandah and a chimney.

The character which implies sitting with family in the cool, or in front of a cosy fire.  

DEB

[i-need-a-martini]

I have an abandoned farmhouse in Italy that was left to me (and a couple of cousins) years ago by my grandparents. It's a stone cottage on arable land with the remnants of a pistachio farm with a fantastic view of Mt Etna in the background. 

Sounds romantic doesn't it lol?

I always dreamed of going there and fixing it up but it has accumulated taxes of close to $150,000 in the last 3 decades so I can't even step on the property without paying this first. It can't even be sold without paying this first.

I doubt if it will ever be claimed by anyone in our family.

[amber-eyed-girl]

Martini, sad to hear that. A similar situation for a friend of mine. Family home in Florence. Taxes. Had to sell. They were devastated.

[katymatey*]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Is it still standing? And what will happen with it ultimately?

There's a place like that in Riverstone, been in a state of decay for years and years.

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Yes Icy it is still there. Just about 100 metres from my parents current home. Just down the track actually. It is on the land left to my uncle.

I see it every week when I visit Mum. I have this urge to go inside, just to see what is left of what I remember. I can't though as it is unsafe.

I imagine it will sit there until one day one of my cousins will inherit it, and maybe knock it down and build. Maybe!

[*mrgrizz*]

CS