Finally the main school. This time there were no cars or people on the yard, no teenagers on the lot and no sound of people thrashing things. It was just me and this 1960’s beauty. The main entrance. We had already taken a peek inside the last time, but now I was going to goContinue reading “The Fish Finger School Part XII”
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The Fish Finger School Part XI
Wait a second. Isn’t this… … the Language House of the Vantaankoski school seen in a beautiful autumn scenery? Oh yes, it is. Like I said in my previous post, I was tired of letting interesting locations vanish. And as the demolition date of this one got closer and closer, I decided it was timeContinue reading “The Fish Finger School Part XI”
Back To Basics
And so my summer holidays were over. I left my former home town and came back home to the Capital Region and resumed my daily habit of going to the office. As September came, my weekly dance lessions started, too. The weather was still beautiful and warm, and I had some strange surge of energyContinue reading “Back To Basics”
A City Within A City
After my summer car broke down I returned to my former home town, which I had left just a year earlier. Most of what I did there during my stay of one and a half weeks is probably not very interesting to the readers of this blog. After all, this is an urbex diary. SoContinue reading “A City Within A City”
Abort Mission
So you expected things to have gone smoothly with my summer car since the fuel pump replacement? Well, kind of. At least the car was still running. The very same day I got my summer car back from the maintenance, this part fell off. The part was located under the engine to protect it fromContinue reading “Abort Mission”
Rise Like A Phoenix
Just another burnt out ruin? Definitely not. Pekka Heikkinen & co is a more than 100 year old bakery famous for its bread in the town of Kajaani in Northern Finland. The building itself was designed by famous architect Eino Pitkänen, whose works have pretty much made Kajaani the capital of Finnish functionalistic architecture. TheContinue reading “Rise Like A Phoenix”
Mining Village Revisited
Several years had passed since I and my friends visited the village of Otanmäki near Kajaani. Although it is far from abandoned, it’s been in quite of a decline since the mine closed in the 1980’s. The location is remote and the houses are way too large for the area thus resulting in the cheapestContinue reading “Mining Village Revisited”
And They Were Dancing
In the early 1950’s a mine was founded in a remote swamp area. As soon as it started operations, a small village was built around it. There were around 250 houses at the peak with some 1000 people living there. The company strived to keep their employees happy in the middle of nowhere. They boughtContinue reading “And They Were Dancing”
Beauty Beneath Ugly Covers
Another small rural town, another former co-operative store. This is again the very distinct work of the architects of SOK. many similar examples once were the main source for groceries and other stuff for inhabitants in these towns. I spotted this building for the first time in 2009 or 2010 and it has been inContinue reading “Beauty Beneath Ugly Covers”
Evening Walks & Nosey Neighbours Part IV
The third floor had clearly just been office space. In fact the third floor only covered one end of the building. From the outside it looked like there was more than this, but we couldn’t find a way to access that part of the building. In fact the narrow ladder seen in one of theContinue reading “Evening Walks & Nosey Neighbours Part IV”