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*]

It was struggle street really. My grandparents had five kids, and then my grandfather ( in his 30's)  had a massive heart attack. He was a shearer, and pretty much had to give that up. This was during the great depression and money was very very tight. He was able to set rabbit traps around the property, and rabbit meat was a constant on the table. What with a house cow (which my grandmother milked, made butter etc) and chooks they managed to bring up the kids. Also a couple of sheep were slaughtered each year. In later years my grandfather contracted shingles which never left him. He was on morphine injections every six hours for years. My grandmother was hardly ever able to leave the house for any extended time, because he became reliant on her and the morphine. 😞 He was also stone deaf, and I used to communicate with him by talking on my fingers. I was ten when he died, and I wish I could have known him better.

[icyfroth]

  Grizz!

I know what you mean. Only this morning I was doing a mental tally of ppl I haven't seen here for a while. Then again, a lot of "new"  Ids have sprung up.

[katymatey*]

I think there are quite a lot of ppl reading, but not posting. The photo thread is a good example. Lots of ID's who kudo, but I don't see actually post.

[icyfroth]

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@katymatey* wrote:

It was struggle street really. My grandparents had five kids, and then my grandfather ( in his 30's)  had a massive heart attack. He was a shearer, and pretty much had to give that up. This was during the great depression and money was very very tight. He was able to set rabbit traps around the property, and rabbit meat was a constant on the table. What with a house cow (which my grandmother milked, made butter etc) and chooks they managed to bring up the kids. Also a couple of sheep were slaughtered each year. In later years my grandfather contracted shingles which never left him. He was on morphine injections every six hours for years. My grandmother was hardly ever able to leave the house for any extended time, because he became reliant on her and the morphine. 😞 He was also stone deaf, and I used to communicate with him by talking on my fingers. I was ten when he died, and I wish I could have known him better.

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That's quite a story Katey. It always amazes me how poor people were and still managed to raise large families. Now ppl have plenty but no families.

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

This isn't abandoned, per se........it's just no longer used.

Tunnel #13 in the Siskiyou Mountains in Southern Oregon.........site of the last great train robbery in the West, in 1923.

I did not take this picture, but I thought it would be of interest.  This was the line that most of Southern Oregon's timber and lumber traveled south on.  A number of years ago, transients managed to set fire to the shoring in the tunnel, and firefighters braved collapsing debris in the process of extinguishing it.  It took another year to shore it up, and by that time, the owners of the line after being informed how decrepit it was decided to halt operations.

The wreath over the tunnel commemorates the 4 individuals who died during the robbery.........

More data here...........  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeAutremont_Brothers

[icyfroth]

The old Edwin Davy Sons Flour Mill in Pyrmont, just over the Anzac Bridge. I pass it fairly often on the way home from being out west.

It stood vacant for years, then there was just the facade, covered in graffiti.

This is what it looked like back in the day:

for the last month or so it's been covered over with scaffolding and shrouded in plastic, so it must have finally been cleared for development. It'll be interesting to see how they integrate the old facade. Some fine new buildings in that area at the moment.

[icyfroth]

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

This isn't abandoned, per se........it's just no longer used.

Tunnel #13 in the Siskiyou Mountains in Southern Oregon.........site of the last great train robbery in the West, in 1923.

I did not take this picture, but I thought it would be of interest.  This was the line that most of Southern Oregon's timber and lumber traveled south on.  A number of years ago, transients managed to set fire to the shoring in the tunnel, and firefighters braved collapsing debris in the process of extinguishing it.  It took another year to shore it up, and by that time, the owners of the line after being informed how decrepit it was decided to halt operations.

The wreath over the tunnel commemorates the 4 individuals who died during the robbery.........

More data here...........  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeAutremont_Brothers

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good on ya, Band,  that story reminded me of another song title for the PLACES thread 🙂