I was driving along a rural road, when I spotted something interesting along the way in a very small village. Once again the building screamed abandonment. The text on the wall indicated, that it was a former dairy processing plant. Actually I wasn’t too sure, if the place was abandoned or not. The bushes indicated,Continue reading “Work In Progress Part I”
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Mining Village Grocery Store
This already seems like a too familiar story, but let’s tell it all over again. In 1948 a copper mine was founded in a very small village of a very small municipality. In addition to a mine, the company built an enrichment plant, two very spectacular blocks of flats and other infrastructure in a location,Continue reading “Mining Village Grocery Store”
The Pearl of the Station Village
When touring Eastern Finland, I saw a lot of villages, where the last Hope had taken the last bus and left for good. There were closed grocery stores, closed village schools, closed banks, closed petrol stations, closed everything. By the way, here’s a petrol station. This village is located some kilometres from the main villageContinue reading “The Pearl of the Station Village”
Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part IV
Like I promised in the previous post, let’s go upstairs. There was a large space with lockers. Perhaps it was a former dressing room. And a corridor with some empty rooms. All in all the upstairs was pretty boring. The back side again looked like production facilities. And the roof there had collapsed, so IContinue reading “Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part IV”
Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part III
The next room I found was a large auditorium. Probably used by the surgical textile factory to entertain foreign visitors and state guests. Somehow this is just a blast from the past: a remote factory with a large room entirely dedicated to visitors. This large room probably used to be the factory canteen. The plasticContinue reading “Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part III”
Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part II
After visiting the caretaker’s house, my tour around the factory continued. The backside was pretty much a wasteland with some loading bays. There were even some burnt out cars parked there. Don’t go, the writing says. Do you really think I would believe that? As I assumed, the place was mainly about empty halls. NoContinue reading “Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part II”
Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part I
My tour next took me to a very remote corner of Finland. And right in the middle of probably one of the strangest business ventures that ever existed in this country. Back in the days of president Urho Kekkonen, it was very customary for the state to found industries in remote corners of the country,Continue reading “Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part I”
Still Around
Of course the tour also included a look at the famous restaurant, which had been closed for eight years now. Its history has been covered better in earlier posts. The building, which I had last seen in 2018, still looked like it used to back then. New plans were already unfolding. Just three days earlierContinue reading “Still Around”
100 Years of History Gone in a Day
The following stop on my tour of Finland was Liperi. It was early afternoon, we were hungover as hell and slowly making our way back towards Helsinki through all possible places in Northern Karelia. It was scorching hot, so we stopped to buy some cold drinks in the local store. The whole village smelled ofContinue reading “100 Years of History Gone in a Day”
The New Mine
So what happened after the new mine was opened in 1954 and the old mine featured in the last post was closed? Well, mining continued all the way until 1989, when enough copper had been extracted. In May that year the mine was closed. They dismantled the machinery either for the museum, resale or justContinue reading “The New Mine”