A broken record? Lovely vintage shelf paper. There was one more apartment at the end of the corridor. This one was smaller than the previous one, just one room and a kitchen. The card was addressed to the same person, whose English notebook I found in the earlier post. The small kitchen was quite aContinue reading “A Selection From The Past Part IV”
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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”
Unboxing A Factory Part I
Dusk was already falling, when I reached an already familiar location. The last time I visited, I didn’t know, what it was, and didn’t find a way in. This time I was at least a bit wiser. This building is a former box factory headquarters. The company moved here from another city in the 1930’sContinue reading “Unboxing A Factory Part I”