Deserted Places: November 2013

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

An abandoned morgue in Belgium

Mortuarium Schoonselhof in Antwerp, Belgium was part of the Schoonselhof cemetery but was left abandoned during the 90s. Tools and chemicals in the autopsy room, including a freezer with place for 12 bodies, electric bone saws and medical files weren't moved before the location became known to photographers in 2006. The building was finally demolished a year later.

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Monday, November 18, 2013

An abandoned sanatorium near Moscow

The area of the river Istra in the region of Moscow is known for the beauty of its scenery. This is why many sanatoriums (medical and recreational facilities) and boarding houses were built in the area. With the political and economical situation changing in the 90s though, many of them had to shut down. Some were destroyed, while other were turned into houses or holiday homes. Only a few still remain in their almost preserved in their original condition.

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Monday, November 11, 2013

SS Ayrfield, Sydney's floating forest

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Homebush Bay, west of Sydney, Australia, is home to a few decommissioned ships as the area was once used as a ship-breaking yard. The most famous and unique among them though is SS Ayrfield.

Originally launched as SS Corrimal, it was built in the UK in 1911 and commissioned in Sydney in 1912. She was purchased by the Commonwealth Government and used to transport supplies to American troops stationed in the Pacific region during World War II. After the war, it was sold to Miller Steamship Company Ltd and renamed Ayrfield. For 20 years, SS Ayrfield operated as a collier between Newcastle and Miller’s terminal in Blackwattle Bay.

In 1972 SS Ayrfield was sent to Homebush Bay for breaking up, where its hall still remains floating, covered by lush vegetation.

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Monday, November 4, 2013

Kolmanskop, the ghost town of the desert

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In the Namib desert, a few kilometers away from the Namibian port town of Lüderitz, there's the ghost town of Kolmanskop. Built by Germans in the beginning of the 20th century, Kolmanskop used to house approximately 1,000 diamond miners and their families. As it usually happens though, the town was left abandoned once the diamond field was exhausted.

The story began in 1908 when German Zacharias Lewala found a diamond while working in the area and showed to his supervisor, the German railway inspector August Stauch. After realizing that this area was rich in diamonds, lots of German miners settled in this area and soon after the German government declared a large area as a "Sperrgebiet", starting to exploit the diamond field.

The town had a hospital, ballroom, power station, school, swimming pool, casino, and even a bowling It had the first x-ray-station in the southern hemisphere, as well as the first tram in Africa. A railway link connected the town to the port of Lüderitz.

The decline began after the World War II when the diamond-field slowly exhausted, and the town was ultimately abandoned in 1954. In the following decades, the desert covered the streets and the tourists now walk through houses knee-deep in sand.

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