Abandoned And Not Forgotten

An occasional series of pictures showing the disused Welsh Highland Railway. Search my photostream for "Welsh Highland" to see all the pictures.

Beddgelert station site. The concrete structure is the base of the water tower whilst on the left my father is standing in the small inspection/ash pit. The station reopened to passenger trains in 2009.

(Ordnance Survey grid ref: SH586481).

31st March 1990.

M. J. Edmunds, Ilfracombe Garden Shop, Ilfracombe, Devon, England,2009.

Garden shop.

www.littleweeds.co.uk

The first time I visited this ward - NYE 2008 - I was so deeply saddened to know that high security or isolation wards for children even existed that I felt wrong even considering photographs... The fake jolity of countryside murals taunting pre-teen children with a happiness & freedom they might never know or have known made it all the worse.

This time I felt compelled to seek out and correct my actions before this entire monument to state sanctioned inhumanity to man is conveniently lost forever under the gloss & veneer of luxury apartment conversions for the mercenary, materialistic & superficial nouveux riche.

The title is a thinly veiled reference to lunacy that BoC fans might understand

A fairly large factory and/or warehouse complex that has been abandoned for a very long time.

The Park Hill Estate in Sheffield awaiting refurbishment by Urban Splash

Originally named the Athens Lunatic Asylum for the Insane, the mental hospital first opened its doors in 1874. The final patients left the Athens Center in 1993. Today the property is owned and maintained by Ohio University. Nearly all of the dozens of hospital buildings have been remodeled and put to use by the University. In 2001 renovation work was completed on the main building, which today is known as Lin Hall and houses music, geology, and biotechnology offices, as well as the Kennedy Museum of Art. Rumored to be haunted, it was featured in an episode of the Fox television show "Scariest Places on Earth." Doctors at the hospital performed lobotomies, water treatments, and shock treatments. Multiple personality and rapist, Billy Milligan (made famous in the book "The Minds of Billy Milligan") was a patient in the 70’s.
Virtual tour:
2009.soulofathens.com/?q=node/113

More information:
www.forgottenoh.com/Ridges/ridges.html

The Ridges
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
November 21, 2009

MC hammer did a good job of patrolling this site the past 10yrs meaning WP is a MINTER of a place, EVERY ward is worth 2-5photo hours to even attempt to capture them well. we had 1hr until dark to do as much as we could.

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