Back when drinking with the nice middle aged couple the previous evening, they told me that the former nursing school of the town had been abandoned and vandalized for some time. They gave me good instructions, and it wasn’t exactly difficult to find the place. The building was completed in two parts, the first oneContinue reading “A Day After Part III”
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The Pile Is Something New
Yet again I am back at a familiar location. I’ve been to this mental asylum two times now, the previous one being in 2022. As I haven’t found a way in, I am back looking for one. Back then this pile of what looks like large plastic bags wasn’t present. I think somebody has sensedContinue reading “The Pile Is Something New”
Lakefront Plans Cancelled
The last location that evening was a mental asylum. Built in 1958 and closed in 2016 because they had difficulties attracting competent staff to the small town, it has stood empty ever since. A couple of years ago the town wanted to buy it from the hospital district, demolish it and plan lakefront housing onContinue reading “Lakefront Plans Cancelled”
Still For Sale
The evening light brought me back to yet another familiar location – a regional hospital closed down in 2014. The previous time I had visited the place had been a year earlier, and that time I hadn’t been lucky in finding an entrance. I wasn’t very hopeful this time, either, but I was ready forContinue reading “Still For Sale”
In Good Care Part V
The following morning I had breakfast with my friend’s family the long way. We sat in the morning sun on the terrace with no horry having coffee. But eventually it was time to head towards new adventures. This was my first photo, because here I noticed the first difference since my previous visit. Massive pilesContinue reading “In Good Care Part V”
In Good Care Part II
Here we have another interesting location, a plague hospital. It was originally built in the 1910’s, but enlarged in the 1950’s to its current, functionalistic look. It became an ordinary hospital in the late 1950’s and was closed in the 1980’s. After that it acted as student apartments until being abandoned in 2009. Nowadays anContinue reading “In Good Care Part II”
They Still Wanted To Waste It
This beauty here is the former hospital of the town of Vammala. Built in 1938, it was a notable example of pre-war functionalistic architecture. It was a key building in the history of the town, considered an important landmark and was on a very visible spot in the town. So naturally they wanted to demolishContinue reading “They Still Wanted To Waste It”
Greeting My Godson Part I
Like every Easter I travelled back to the town I was born in to spend some quality time with my godson. It’s already a tradition. And an equal tradition is, that during one of the days I and the godson’s father escape somewhere to do urban exploration. Here we are just a few hundred metersContinue reading “Greeting My Godson Part I”
A Gloomy Institution Part XI
Going downstairs in one of the ward buildings. The nerd center. Well, there is another room. The basement of this building really seems like a computer center. I mean, what is this place? A small lobby downstairs. And a sauna downstairs in the building. A floor plan of the building. And another lobby. And anotherContinue reading “A Gloomy Institution Part XI”
A Gloomy Institution Part X
And now we are in a storage looking room with safe curtains. Moving on to the deeper parts of this building. Looks like a cleaning closet in the ward building. “The clothes of the inhabitants will be washed in the ward until the move.” A plastic bed. A lobby in the wards. A very smallContinue reading “A Gloomy Institution Part X”