The basement of the second house was out of bounds, so was this first floor apartment. This picture is actually taken through the window. That there is the living room window of the same apartment. The bootscraper has a nice lace hat. Going upstairs. The walls have been opened even here. Once again people haveContinue reading “What A Beautiful Morning Part X”
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What A Beautiful Morning Part IX
And here is the second part of the first house, which was destroyed by the Christmas tree accident. They have turned it into a patio with a large laundry rack. Oh, and there’s a basement! There were a small table and a bench in the backyard. Otherwise this was a very rural area. Let’s moveContinue reading “What A Beautiful Morning Part IX”
So This Is How You Spend Your Winter Holidays?
Some of you might have wondered, why there are so few photos taken during winter, even though it’s so long in Finland. I hate winters. It’s cold, it’s dark, its usually too dark for photography. Where I lived previously, the sun usually was properly up only between 11 am and 3 pm. Besides I don’tContinue reading “So This Is How You Spend Your Winter Holidays?”
So Useless They Actually Bought It Twice
Welcome again to the world of crazy real estate deals. After the story of the mental asylum, which was sold until the new owner realized, that its toilets had been demolished, we tell an even more bizarre story. It seems that these stories are customary to old public buildings, like schools, factories and hospitals. ThisContinue reading “So Useless They Actually Bought It Twice”
I Didn’t Sign Up For This
And so the morning dawns to yet another ridiculous story from real estate business in decaying rural Finnish villages. Ready for it? This is yet another former mental asylum, which became a regional hospital in the 1990’s and started treating even other patients. It was deemed surplus in mid-2010’s. Again the staff apartments of theContinue reading “I Didn’t Sign Up For This”
On The Road Again
The following morning at about 10 am I got a call from the workshop. My car was ready for pick up. And a few hours later I was standing in front of this building. If you’ve been following this blog closely, this is an all too familiar story. The building is a mental asylum builtContinue reading “On The Road Again”
Bad News From Spain
Did I already mention, that former mental asylums were a thing that summer. I didn’t? Well, former mental asylums were a thing that summer. Here we have one beautiful hospital building again from the 1920’s. But wait a second, doesn’t it look like it’s very much in use? It does indeed. It currently serves asContinue reading “Bad News From Spain”
Just Another Mental Asylum
Abandoned mental asylums had sort of been the thing of this summer. I had found a nice and useful list of former mental asylums, and as I now was doing a tour on Finland, I decided to visit them all. This mental asylum had originally been a mansion, which was bought by the town toContinue reading “Just Another Mental Asylum”
We’ll Show You The Morgue Part VII
We were faced with a very large lobby, which was in a horrible condition. As the hospital was built on a hillside, this floor was partly the ground floor and partly the basement. But we’re still above ground level. The room had what looked like a buffet. It seems we found the canteen of theContinue reading “We’ll Show You The Morgue Part VII”
We’ll Show You The Morgue Part VI
We next found the main lobby and what was probably the main entrance to the hospital. We started looking for a way to the other wing of the building, but before that we found some unexplored rooms in the back of the building. This is probably where the patients were admitted to the hospital. TheContinue reading “We’ll Show You The Morgue Part VI”