The shelf seen in the previous picture contained school books. Here we have at least material for a Swedish lesson. A sixth grade English notebook. I’ve removed the name, but the owner is alive and well. And how do I know this? Well, wait and see. There was also a Chistmas Greeting card addressed toContinue reading “A Selection From The Past Part III”
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A Selection From The Past Part II
Time hasn’t treated this business very well. See, how the floor tiles have bubbled. There was a small kitchen downstairs. The floor has bubbled even here. An extremely old knitting magazine, probably from the 1980’s. And a crossword magazine from the late 1990’s. A package of kraft paper. An ad for the national village storeContinue reading “A Selection From The Past Part II”
A Selection From The Past Part I
Another quiet rural village street somwhere in Finland. And the old village store called Talvikin Valinta (Talvikki’s Selection). This is one of the best known urbex locations in Finland. If you live in the South and have never visited this one, you’re really not an urbexer. Prices of meat and prepared food products. The pricesContinue reading “A Selection From The Past Part I”
Promised A Lot, Provided A Little
When I was doing my previous, large Tour De Finland in 2020, I visited almost all former mental asylums in Finland, which I knew about. Almost. There were some, which I had missed. The decision to close this hospital was made in 2015 and the last patients moved out in 2019. Some of the buildingsContinue reading “Promised A Lot, Provided A Little”
Involuntary Goodbyes
My final location of the evening was yet another location featured previously. This, of course, is the ruined cotton wool factory I visited the previous August and featured not so long ago on this blog. I didn’t expect to find a point of entry, but there had been talk about its demolition, so I hadContinue reading “Involuntary Goodbyes”
Unboxing A Factory Part VI
Wait a second, where are we now? Electrical devices with names of factories: one says sawmill and condensator, the other one brick factory and the third one box factory. Even more facilities in the following blocks. And all kinds of fairly strange devices. Behind the scenes. Doesn’t look very functional anymore. There were several electricalContinue reading “Unboxing A Factory Part VI”
Unboxing A Factory Part V
The closest look at the old factory, which indeed was in a seemingly good condition. I didn’t approach further, as I really wasn’t sure if it was abandoned or not. Later that year I was contacted by a group of film students. They were filming this documentary and asked me for some help in findingContinue reading “Unboxing A Factory Part V”
Unboxing A Factory Part IV
You had to be careful when exploring the area. There was a barbed wire fence around some of the buildings, and it wasn’t very visible in the arriving darkness. The white house is the factory headquarters. There was a fairly solid gate, too. However, the barbed wire wasn’t running next to it. So let’s takeContinue reading “Unboxing A Factory Part IV”
Unboxing A Factory Part III
Hiding behind the birches was the third building in the area: the former box factory warehouse. A closer look with no trees obstructing the view. The other side of the building with the old box factory behind it. All the old factory buildings were named after rivers. The headquarters was named Potomac, the warehouse wasContinue reading “Unboxing A Factory Part III”
Unboxing A Factory Part II
According to old maps, there had been several buildings behind the box factory office building. Now this was almost all that there was left. Judging by the number, it had originally contained workers’ apartments. It was all open doors, but its condition was so rough, I chose not to go in. It didn’t look muchContinue reading “Unboxing A Factory Part II”