Abandoned - Page 4

femmeInterrupted · 05-26-2013, 07:07 PM

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/0...-of-a-problem/

Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer from high crime rates and others might have a lack of affordable housing.
And then you have Dubai, which for the last several years has been facing the unusual problem of high end sports cars being abandoned and left to gather thick layers of dust at airport car parks and on the roadside across the city.

Thousands of the finest automobiles ever made are now being abandoned every year since Dubai’s financial meltdown, left by expatriates and locals alike who flee in a hurry because they face crippling debts.
With big loans to repay to the banks (unpaid debt or even bouncing a cheque is a criminal offence in Dubai), the panicked car owners make their way to the airport at top speeds and leave their vehicles in the car park, hopping on the next flight out of there, never to return.

Last year, a Ferrari Enzo, one of only four hundred manufactured, was seized by police having spent several months in a car park collecting dust.
The million dollar motor went on sale at auction alongside other Ferraris, Porsches, Range Rovers and Mercedes plucked from the roadside.

femmeInterrupted · 06-04-2013, 06:51 AM

A 35 acre subterranean Cold War City that lies 100 feet beneath Corsham. Built in the late 50s this massive city complex was designed by Government personnel in the event of a nuclear strike.
A former Bath stone quarry the city, code named Burlington, was to be the site of the main Emergency Government War Headquarters - the hub of the Country's alternative seat of power outside London.

Over a kilometre in length, and boasting over 60 miles of roads. Blast proof and completely self-sufficient the secret underground site could accommodate up to 6,000 people, in complete isolation from the outside world, for up to three months.

An underground lake and treatment plant could provide all the drinking water needed whilst 12 huge tanks could store the fuel required to keep the four massive generators, in the underground power station, running for up to three months. And unlike most urban cities, above ground, the air within the complex could also be kept at a constant humidity and heated to around 20 degrees. The city was also equipped with the second largest telephone exchange in Britain, a BBC studio from which the PM could address the nation and an internal Lamson Tube system that could relay messages, using compressed air, throughout the complex.

Below are some photos of the unused facilities. It was maintained in working order until the late 1980's until it was cut back to a staff of 4 and then decommisioned in December 2005.

The BBC Article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/conte..._feature.shtml

http://www.theblogbelow.com/2008/07/...nker-at-c.html

cinnamongrrl · 06-04-2013, 06:59 AM

As ever, I am endlessly fascinated by this thread.... I so need to contribute to it....

I was just pondering the other day, the occurrence of things that just suddenly stop being useful to us. I see ancient (formerly horse drawn) plows left in fields....cars left in driveways of long empty houses...buildings crumbling...things that once had a purpose..and meant something to someone. I think about the very last time that place or thing was utilized...and how it's owner probably didn't know that would BE the last time...
I find roads in the woods all the time..that surely used to go somewhere...one thing I have learned about human nature is that we don't really do or make anything without a reason...being a history buff my brain loves to meander on the thoughts of many yesterdays ago...

Gemme · 06-04-2013, 05:22 PM

I just found out that there's an abandoned amusement park not too far from me. I am totally going to go see it!

cinnamongrrl · 07-03-2014, 04:11 PM

bumping a much loved (by me!) thread....

Orema · 07-05-2014, 10:13 AM

Bèsame* · 07-05-2014, 12:46 PM

ProfPacker · 07-05-2014, 01:07 PM

Gemme · 07-07-2014, 04:38 AM

Ghost Ship

CyberStud · 07-07-2014, 05:18 AM

I came to this thread expect something totally different! What amazing pictures of moments lost in time...I just had to contribute.

Queenie · 07-07-2014, 07:22 AM

Abandoned amusement park in berlin.

CyberStud · 07-18-2014, 12:25 PM

deathbypoem · 07-18-2014, 01:00 PM

deathbypoem · 07-18-2014, 01:01 PM

deathbypoem · 07-18-2014, 01:04 PM

Orema · 09-01-2014, 04:31 AM

*Anya* · 09-01-2014, 06:56 AM

This is an amazing thread.

The pictures evoke such a depth of feeling of loss and sadness.

The beauty of the old and the forgotten objects of our history.

The pictures do all of that and they are stunning.

Bèsame* · 09-01-2014, 10:48 AM

How cool would this be to stumble upon? I would love to touch it and hear the conversations that were once had inside this car....

Orema · 09-01-2014, 12:50 PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-America.html

Bèsame* · 09-01-2014, 02:11 PM

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