I had once again slept in my summer car, and woken up very early to the sound of birds and the rising sun starting to heat up my car. It was around 6.45 am, when I reached a small town, which I rarely visit. I drove around the streets of the small centre and suddenlyContinue reading “Got Past The Final Boss Part I”
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Match Factory Ruins
In the early 1870’s a match factory was founded next to a small river near a large mansion. It burned down in 1918 and the construction of a new factory was started a few years later. In 1925 an accident on the construction site killed the owner of the business and he was the onlyContinue reading “Match Factory Ruins”
Factory Workers’ Court
You know this story, right. You’re cruising on a road in a place you’ve rarely visited, when you spot something interesting in the woods. Maybe it’s broken or boarded up windows, maybe an overgrown yard. You just catch a glimpse of it before it is behind trees again, so you take the next crossing, turnContinue reading “Factory Workers’ Court”
Velkua School
The following find wasn’t exactly a find. It was something I knew about, and decided to go and see, if it really was happening. The municipality of Velkua was a very small island municipality throughout its existence. There were only around 250 people living on some small islands and an even smaller area of landContinue reading “Velkua School”
Making Way
Driving along, the next find was this clearly emtpy former store. The story doesn’t tell, what it was. Clearly it was an early 20th century business building with room for two businesses. The wing in the back seemed like a storage and loading dock. The wing to the right seemed like an apartment wing. ButContinue reading “Making Way”
Town Hall In Waiting
When roaming around countless small municipalities, finding abandoned places was more about being in the right place in the right time than actually knowing where they were. And once again I managed to find a closed building with no idea what it was about. Having travelled around Finland a lot and also knowing a bitContinue reading “Town Hall In Waiting”
Work in Progress Part III
Another look at the room with the vintage lamp. The door frames look like they have been torn off and there’s a ladder on the floor. It actually also seems like the floor is not really a floor but just two very large boards piled on top of another. The main stairway of the apartmentsContinue reading “Work in Progress Part III”
Work in Progress Part II
Upstairs we go. This was where a meeting room and employer apartments were located. This, I believe, was the meeting room. And the reason to that is very simple. The reason to my belief was this utterly stupid stairway. It led up from the production area, and ended up in this room without really acnowledgingContinue reading “Work in Progress Part II”
Work In Progress Part I
I was driving along a rural road, when I spotted something interesting along the way in a very small village. Once again the building screamed abandonment. The text on the wall indicated, that it was a former dairy processing plant. Actually I wasn’t too sure, if the place was abandoned or not. The bushes indicated,Continue reading “Work In Progress Part I”
Mining Village Grocery Store
This already seems like a too familiar story, but let’s tell it all over again. In 1948 a copper mine was founded in a very small village of a very small municipality. In addition to a mine, the company built an enrichment plant, two very spectacular blocks of flats and other infrastructure in a location,Continue reading “Mining Village Grocery Store”