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McAvennie_ OBE Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Total posts: 2666 Location: Paris, France Age: 34 Gender: Male |
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Wow, the watery Christ is awesome, the sunken Antarctic yacht and the Bulgarian Commie HQ are the best. The last is straight out of Close Encounters.
No place for Famagusta.
I love the station in Detroit. Surely that could be put to good use. |
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| cherrybomb Skating the thin crust
Great Old One Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Total posts: 942 Location: Sitting on the roof at dusk Gender: Female |
| Posted: 16-04-2013 13:51 Post subject: |
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| The cooling tower looks like the the building at the end of Terry Gilliam's Brazil. |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 8820 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 16-04-2013 21:07 Post subject: |
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| cherrybomb wrote: | | The cooling tower looks like the the building at the end of Terry Gilliam's Brazil. |
It does, yes. Fantastic locations for films, I think. |
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| McAvennie_ OBE Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Total posts: 2666 Location: Paris, France Age: 34 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 05-05-2013 10:50 Post subject: |
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I thought we had a general 'Abandoned Places' thread somewhere but maybe not...
Anyway, finally got round to visiting the 'ghost town' of Vieux Goussainville yesterday. Was interesting but a bit of a let down. Basically, when Charles de Gaulle airport expanded the village found itself under the flight path and practically everybody upped sticks and moved on to a new settlement about one mile down the road - although still pretty much under the flight path...
I'd say about 60-70% of the remaining buildings are abandoned and bricked up which does make for a very curious place to visit, however the other 30-40% are either occupied or are being reclaimed - thus, during my visit to a supposed 'ghost town' I ended up seeing more cars passing by and white vans of weekend renovators than I'd see in my own very inhabited village back home in the UK.
The abandoned church and ruined Château were pretty cool and late at night or perhaps on a weekday it may seem a bit more otherworld or creepy - my biggest fear while strolling around was the numerous graffiti tags and threats of violence to intruders from the 'neuf-cinq' gangs. 
Gallery of pics, craftily taken to accentuate the scale of abandonment... 
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151609271236352.1073741827.579136351&type=1&l=9f821e213f |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 8820 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 05-05-2013 12:43 Post subject: |
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Seems such a shame that a nice little village was just abandoned like that.
I saw one or two places almost like that in Bulgaria - the estate agent said that young people were going to live in the cities, and the older people left in rural villages were just dying off. So they were selling a lot of rural properties for very low prices. |
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| bunnymousekitt rabbity mousey cat-like thing
Great Old One Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Total posts: 218 Location: hiding under the kitchen sink Age: 36 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 07-05-2013 11:56 Post subject: |
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Beautiful photos, McAvennie. I wonder why the residents relocated under the same flightpath that drove them out in the first place?
I grew up very near a ghost town that was eventually repopulated. Think stereotypical old-west-type ghost town. When I was a kid, I'd feel nauseous whenever we had to drive through it, it was so creepy. Bad vibes. Tumbleweeds and only the sound of rusted windmills creaking in the wind and all that. Slowly a few businesses moved in, then people, and now it's a tourist spot surrounded by spas, coffee houses and McMansions. So it's kind of awful either way. |
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 1344 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 23-05-2013 01:38 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Living in the Art Deco Ruins of the Grande Hotel, Africa
When it opened its doors in 1955, the Grande Hotel in Beira, colonial Mozambique was touted as the largest and most luxurious hotel in Africa. The art deco style palace with uninterrupted views of the Indian Ocean boasted 116 rooms and an Olympic sized swimming pool for its VIP guests. But by the 1970s, having spent less than a decade in service and many more in limbo, the Grande Hotel was serving as a military base in a city ravaged by civil war. The basement was converted into a prison. Today, 1,000 squatters called the Grande Hotel their home. |
http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/05/22/anywhere-but-here-the-grande-hotel-of-mozambique/ |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 23-05-2013 12:21 Post subject: |
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| sherbetbizarre wrote: | | Quote: | Living in the Art Deco Ruins of the Grande Hotel, Africa
When it opened its doors in 1955, the Grande Hotel in Beira, colonial Mozambique was touted as the largest and most luxurious hotel in Africa. The art deco style palace with uninterrupted views of the Indian Ocean boasted 116 rooms and an Olympic sized swimming pool for its VIP guests. But by the 1970s, having spent less than a decade in service and many more in limbo, the Grande Hotel was serving as a military base in a city ravaged by civil war. The basement was converted into a prison. Today, 1,000 squatters called the Grande Hotel their home. |
http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/05/22/anywhere-but-here-the-grande-hotel-of-mozambique/ |
Perfect for a Zombie film. |
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| cherrybomb Skating the thin crust
Great Old One Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Total posts: 942 Location: Sitting on the roof at dusk Gender: Female |
| Posted: 23-05-2013 13:14 Post subject: |
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| It does look like something out of Fallout. Beautifully creepy |
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 1344 Gender: Male |
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| McAvennie_ OBE Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Total posts: 2666 Location: Paris, France Age: 34 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 30-05-2013 11:25 Post subject: |
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I saw something the other day, could well have been on here, about an old submarine somewhere down the Thames east of London. Or was it the Medway. I think it was a WW1 one. |
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| George_millett Great Old One Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Total posts: 118 |
| Posted: 30-05-2013 15:28 Post subject: |
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| McAvennie_ wrote: |
I saw something the other day, could well have been on here, about an old submarine somewhere down the Thames east of London. Or was it the Medway. I think it was a WW1 one. |
There is an old rusted Submarine on the Medway that can be seen from the railway bridge just before you get to Rochester Station. It could be that on you are remembering. |
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| Philo_T But, this one goes to 11! Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Total posts: 1337 Location: slaving away in the bit mines Age: 47 Gender: Unknown |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| Posted: 02-06-2013 13:39 Post subject: |
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There's a really good full HD video in the comments section. |
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| GingerTabby Grey Joined: 20 Nov 2012 Total posts: 7 Location: all lost in the supermarket Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 03-06-2013 00:35 Post subject: |
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Further to the earlier discussion about abandoned buildings in Detroit, the following site may be of interest:
http://forgottendetroit.com
As you'll see, it includes a series of photos of the afore-mentioned Michigan Central Depot. I found the photos of the dilapidated Slavic church and its subsequent demolition very poignant. These buildings must have been stunning in their heyday. |
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