Lets See Your Abandoned and Dilapidated Buildings / Ruins

[Inphoto]

Photos of old or new abandoned buildings, subway systems, ancient ruins etc...

 

[SkedAddled]

Packard assembly plant, Detroit, Michigan, USA

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Just for fun, a 360-degree rooftop pano. I call it Planet Packard.

 

[Pantry42]

Panshanger airfield, Welwyn, Hertfordshire UK.

Although now long since demolished I was asked back in 2014 to take photos of the old airfields buildings before they fell to the demolition workers. In use as a general aviation airfield the site actually started of as a decoy aerodrome for the de Havilland factory at Hatfield and was built on land at Holwell Hyde, just south of Panshanger airfield, and the Royal Air Force occasionally made use of it for training.

Panshanger airfield itself was more regularly used by the Royal Air Force for training purposes and a large Bellman type hangar was erected to accommodate the aircraft based there, along with several 'Over Blister' type hangars that were very common on many airfields built in WWII both for both the RAF and the USAAF as seen here

No. 1 Elementary Flying School, equipped with Tiger Moth biplane trainers was active at the aerodrome from September 1942, and No. 127 Gliding School was also operational at Panshanger from August 1943 until closure in May 1948.

After the war, RAF No. 1 Reserve Flying School was based at Panshanger from May 1947 until its closure in May 1953. It was too managed by De Havilland Aircraft.

Such a shame that they were destroyed by the developers and the site still remains unbuilt on to date

 

[SkedAddled]

Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital, Northville, Michigan, USA.
It was in the western Detroit metro village of Northville, now it's gone.

 

[i-G12]

Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital, Northville, Michigan, USA.
It was in the western Detroit metro village of Northville, now it's gone.

That place is trashed.

 

[SkedAddled]

That place is trashed.

It sure was.
That's what happens when a place like that is literally abandoned and unmaintained for a couple of decades.

But it wasn't vandalism; it was nature enforcing its reclamation.

 

[DavidWatts]

Gas Station, San Jon, New Mexico, USA. On Route 66.

Canon 20D, Tamron 28-75 @ 28mm, f/8, 1/320, iso 100

 

[SkedAddled]

October 2009
Grand Trunk Railroad, maintenance yards, Port Huron, MI, USA

 

[davesrose]

Just for fun, a 360-degree rooftop pano. I call it Planet Packard.

This is a nice abstract Craig.

So I live near a site that used to be dilapidated Pullman train yard (it closed around 1980). The city owned it, posted no trespassing, but graffiti artists (or gangs) would be spray painting and photographers would take photos of the location (or pay models to to include as background). Funny thing is that once Atlanta became a major filming location, the city was getting a lot of money keeping it dilapidated but there were major movies and TV shows filmed there. First movie I noticed was Hunger Games (they CGed out the graffiti, added windows, and moved buildings around for particular districts). One of the last movies I'm aware of was a scene in the last Bad Boys. They had some limited shots inside the buildings, then walked out to Miami bay (which was a constructed moat with speed boats, and then CG Miami in the background plate. Think the last shots of the dilapidated Pullman Yards was a season of Stranger Things. The whole lot is pretty big: a developer went in and renovated the buildings of interest, and added apartments in the area of the lot that was just grass. I was thinking at some point I'll try matching some angles of before/after redevelopment.

 

[DavidWatts]

The Historic Walloomsic Inn ruins, Bennington, Vermont, USA. There are rumors that some family members are still living in a part of this huge structure.

Canon 5D3, Canon 16-35 L @ 21mm, f/8, 1/160, iso 200

 

[SkedAddled]

...So I live near a site that used to be dilapidated Pullman train yard (it closed around 1980)...

Lovin' it, Dave!
Please, show us some more.

 

[SkedAddled]

The Historic Walloomsic Inn ruins, Bennington, Vermont, USA. There are rumors that some family members are still living in a part of this huge structure.

Very cool, that.
Have you any more of the place?

 

[nevermore]

 

[DavidWatts]

Very cool, that.
Have you any more of the place?

Not really. Just similar comps that didn’t make the cut. It is still private property so we had to shoot it from the street outside. I would have loved to go inside. Others apparently have. There are pics on the internet of the place. Most are fairly old shots of what it used to look like.

 

[Lubos-PM]

The Blue House in Terčina Valley near Nové Hrady in South Bohemia was built at the turn of the 1860s and 1870s as a seasonal mansion of Therese Buquoy. It was damaged by a flood in 1936 and has been dilapidated ever since.

 

[SkedAddled]

 

[savoirferret]

Abandoned diner somewhere in Texas

 

[savoirferret]

Truck repair in Arizona

 

[Stic2]

Old pet shop...


Birds and Animals by M Smith, on Flickr

 

[Inphoto]

At the edge of the former Royal Estates, Athens