Back in 2010 this corridor was so full of paper it was almost impossible to pass through. The paper has been replaced with moldy sawdust from the roof. It was increasingly starting to look like the roof was coming down in every single room on the top floor. A sad sight. Here it wasn’t justContinue reading “Goodbye, Nightmares Part VII”
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Goodbye, Nightmares Part V
In we go. Back in 2010 there was no graffiti. There was a fridge in the corner, which has been thrown down the stairs. There was paper all over, but it’s gone now. I can’t remember seeing a tv like this here before. Somehow I’m not surprised, that there is one, though. Miscellaneous boxes. OneContinue reading “Goodbye, Nightmares Part V”
Goodbye, Nightmares Part IV
So I start working my way around the back of the slaughterhouse to the courtyard. Behind the complex was a small wooden building. It was inaccessible, collapsing and didn’t look very interesting to me. The rear of the building. The owner really hadn’t cared about gardening. As this 11 year old photo shows, absolutely nothingContinue reading “Goodbye, Nightmares Part IV”
Goodbye, Nightmares Part III
Before going to the large room on the other side of the building, I took a look at the small room with the windows inside the building. I don’t know its original purpose, but now it’s full of all kinds of miscellaneous stuff from what looks like an animal transport cage to what looks likeContinue reading “Goodbye, Nightmares Part III”
Goodbye, Nightmares Part I
Welcome to a tiny village in Western Finland. If you’ve followed this blog closely, you will recognize the place. This is the place, where my nightmares were made. A former abattoir in a village, where I used to live between ages 3 and 4. And the building, which basically is the reason why i startedContinue reading “Goodbye, Nightmares Part I”
Almost Choo-chooed On The Way
Several of the locations I chose to visit during my road trip were places, which I had never visited. I had spotted them in news about abandoned buildings, construction projects and future demolitions. But there were also several locations, which I had spotted during my extensive tour of Finland the previous summer. That time IContinue reading “Almost Choo-chooed On The Way”
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”
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”
Evening Walks & Nosey Neighbours Part III
An attempt at a window shot. Not one of my best. Again the brick wall looks a bit too good to me. The bricks and the plaster between them look a bit too regular to be from the 1940’s. So I found the elevator. This one has definitely been modernized in the 1970’s, so that’sContinue reading “Evening Walks & Nosey Neighbours Part III”
Evening Walks & Nosey Neighbours Part II
A closer look at one of the drums. Chrome was used in making the skins better suited for leather products, and probably some substance containing it was led to the drums. This also meant that the soil under and around the factory was seriously contaminated. The contamination levels were such, that in fact the authoritiesContinue reading “Evening Walks & Nosey Neighbours Part II”