Yet another familiar location. This is the small village store in the middle of nowhere featured earlier in 2022. As there is something looking like a camera next to the open door in the right corner of the building facing the road, I decided to approach from the back. I tried and tried to findContinue reading “Still Didn’t Feel Like Posing”
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Missed It Again
Having again read the news, I heard of a new elementary school built in a village, which former was a center of a small municipality. The building of the new school in such small places almost always means the demolition of the old school. And again I felt sorry about the beautiful old 1950’s schoolContinue reading “Missed It Again”
Stores Come In Two Sizes Part II
Next to the other store was a smaller old business building, which already appears on aerial photos from 1948. According to Google Maps photos from 2011 its upstairs apartments still looked inhabited. The other side. It’s possible that even the downstairs business premises had been converted into apartments at some point. After business use ended,Continue reading “Stores Come In Two Sizes Part II”
Stores Come In Two Sizes Part I
This time I find myself by the old main road in a small regional town. My friend, who has tipped me about several locations in Finland was visiting her relatives in the area and told me about an old store, which sat abandoned. The main building and storefront were clearly abandoned, but there might haveContinue reading “Stores Come In Two Sizes Part I”
Trainspotting Failed
You already know the story, as I’ve told it so many times. I travel a lot by train, and I mean a lot. Until the spring of 2023 I did it weekly, and I accumulated around 60 000 kilometers on the tracks yearly. After that the mileage dramatically decreased, as I stopped going to myContinue reading “Trainspotting Failed”
Looks Like A Write-Off
The following yearly check up was to a former mental asylum, which I had discovered back in 2021. I visited again in 2022 only to find out, that the former staff apartments had found new inhabitants. Since then it had been on the news, that the owner plans Airsoft games to be played in theContinue reading “Looks Like A Write-Off”
The Doors Would Never Open
The following location from my neverending Excel. It is the village store featured here for the first time in photos from 2022. According to the sign in the window, the place is still for sale. No buyers have appeared, though. It looks like even the for sale sign has lost its hope. This end ofContinue reading “The Doors Would Never Open”
The Train Still Doesn’t Stop, But At Least I am inside
So yet another one of the closed railroad stations, which I’ve featured during the previous days. There’s even a train of the latest model of Finnish locomotives passing at this very moment. Like the previous ones, this building was completed in 1886. Passenger traffic ended in 1990, much later than at the others. And indeedContinue reading “The Train Still Doesn’t Stop, But At Least I am inside”
Caught In Crossfire Part IV
That would be the way down, but we’re not going there just yet. Practising the letter F. The blinds are shut. Another dark room with a maze. The ceiling in this room was higher and the windows were different. I suspect, that this has been the assembly hall of the school before the gym wasContinue reading “Caught In Crossfire Part IV”
Caught In Crossfire Part III
A fireplace up front and a toilet to the left. This has definitely been an apartment back in the days when teachers still lived in schools. Since then it has been something else. Those look like clothes dryers. “Wash hands when you come in the morning”. That’s pretty good advice for schoolkids All kinds ofContinue reading “Caught In Crossfire Part III”