Seeing as this has been spoken of in the Junior forum... Abandoned houses!!

[turbo500]

If anybody is interested in abandoned buildings, you should google the Urban Exploration Group, who have documented and in many cases, entered a lot of abandoned or disused buildings and taken heaps of photo's of their findings.

Here is one that sticks out in my mind. This is Bradford City Centre, looking down Hall Ings towards Centenary Square and the city hall on the left. See that huge, concrete looking building sticking up in the distance? That is the former YBS headquaters and a bloody eyesore at that. It's a HORRIBLE building and been stood empty since YBS moved to newly built offices in the early 2000's.

 

[turbo500]

In closer detail

 

[davetranter]

Abandoned houses

The first picture reminds me of a similar house (fairly) near to me. I've not been near it for over 20 years. If it's still there, I'll take some photographs.

Many rural properties are abandoned because they have no utilities (mains water, gas, electicity, sewerage) and it would be prohibitively expensive to provide them.

As for the 'monstrosity' in Bradford, no doubt the 'Holding Company' which owns it is happy to wait for another 10 or 20 years until the value of that piece of land increases sufficiently to warrant the cost of demolition. The ground floor (shop units??) appears to be occupied anyway, so they'll be getting some revenue from it while they wait.

All best

Dave T

 

[vacbear58]

Reply #12

I hope you rescued that Lux 310 - they are quite rare!

 

[dysondestijl]

Eeeerrr.... I will rescue It!

 

[turbo500]

The ground floor (shop units??) appears to be occupied anywa

Hi Dave,

What appears to look like occupied space is the former reception of the short lived YBS Mortgage Express brand. They used the building for a brief period shortly after YBS moved out.

A few years ago, the building's enormous underground car park was the site of an illegal rave. The building was raided and has since been made more secure than Broadmoor. Lord knows what they plan to do with it, but it's so huge and situated on a main road, demolition would be difficult.

Really wish they would do something with it, the whole north end of the city centre is horrid. Shame, as the south of the city centre has recently been remodeled and building work on the new Westfield shopping centre has finally started.

 

[tolivac]

Abandoned houses and buildings-is sort of eerily interesting.And some of these are schools with equipment in them intact!What a waste-some folks who do home schooling could use the equipment-better someone using it than letting it sit and rot or get vandalized by some "urban explorers" who are destructive and "tag" the places with paint and graffitti.There is an abandoned house in the area where I live-the owners died and the house sits vacant-unused.A neighbor does mow the front lawn.I did walk thru the house-and the roof is leaking water damage in some parts of the place-a tree is also leaning on the end of the house.It was blown over during a storm.In another housing district near me-there is an abandoned house that is really sad--some parts of its roof are starting to collapse.there are "condemned" signs on the place-and its in a High dollar neighborhood.The owners divorced and none of them want to take responsibility for the house.You peak in the windows and see the dining room table set with place settings on it.Some furniture is in the house.There is a canister vacuum wand with powernozzle standing in the middle of the living room floor.no hose or machine.Probably for a central unit.A trash company "wheelie" bin sits by the side of the house.surprized the garbage company hasn't picked it up.Been there for years.And black mold covers the walls.Some neighbors there say kids have broken into the house and had beer parties.There were plans to knock the place down.So far it hasn't happened.When I looked up the place in the property listings it sold originally for $250,000.Bet it worth next to nothing now.So sad-was a very nice place.
When I went pheasant hunting during college years-We used to hunt the abandoned farms there-after all-no one there to say no!The homes were so erie-and in one barn was an old Mason Hamlin upright pump organ in really nice shape.Did score some pheasants there,though.they like the quiet places.This was in South Dakota.
If you want to see abandoned house and building tours-some good ones on YouTube by "The Unknown cameraman" and "AdamtheWoo"They show tours of schools,abandoned hospitals,homes and other places-even amusement parks.Some of those places are downright creepy-Adam even explores and abandoned Jai-Lai fronton!That was REALLY creepy!Those were common in Florida-where that one he explored was.The real creepshow places were the abandoned hospitals and mental hospitals.And throw in a few movie theaters-even an abandoned drive in-buildings collapsed-the screen tower intact!Trees growing in front of it.Abandoned projectors in the roofless projection building.

 

[arh1953]

Nothing much sadder than an abandoned property with what used to be a really nice building, either residence or business. Ours was on the corner of my street, unoccupied since the woman left on a trip to Connecticut and died up there in 1982. Her disrespectful heirs fought until 2005 over it. A family attorney ended up with it. The house had roof leaks, none of the furniture was top dollar or desirable, except for what was literally a 300 year old dining room suite with hand carved people/spindles on the chair backs. Idiot heirs did get that all out of there before the worst of the damage. Half of the kitchen cabinets were in the floor with smashed dishes and glassware, due to falling off from water damage. The owner dumpstered the place out, destroyed a perfect pink 1959 bathroom, did a complete roof and reno, and it's been rented out since about 2007 to very clean tenants.

 

[sebo_fan]

The little room in pic 3/reply 3 could well have been an outside WC/toilet. This was common in Scotland as far back as the 1950s and 60s when housing was pretty poor, even out in the countryside. If you wanted to go to the toilet you had to do it outside and a lot of homes built a "lean to" room at the side for that function.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Can you just imagine the stories those walls could tell??

I love to romp through old buildings like this. You know there are stories from day gone by. I am intrigued by it all.

 

[dysondestijl]

There was an abandoned house near where my friend lived once, we were out in the garden and my mates football went over the fence into the abandoned place! We went round onto the road and the other side of the house, the garden had no fence, so we went and got the football and there was a man in the kitchen of the house!!! We were like omg someone lives there??? The garden was overgrown and there was no car or anything there and the house was a real mess!!
There is another 1800's house near where the second house photographed is, it's really buried now, it's really creepy it's been derelict since the 70's and there is like a secret garden and everything!! I'll try and find pics

 

[dysondestijl]

Here we go:

 

[dysondestijl]

Here's another shot:

 

[dysondestijl]

Windows

 

[dysondestijl]

More windows

 

[dysondestijl]

The courtyard

 

[gsheen]

Although not a abandoned building I walked through the empty Electrolux Factory and offices when they closed down manufacturing in SA a few years back. It was weird, as I walked through the building I could hear the factory in full swing as I remembered it. EErie

 

[dysondestijl]

Inside!!! Fireplace

 

[dysondestijl]

More inside

 

[dysondestijl]

The house