Forgotten Heritage

The Wimpole Folly in Cambridgeshire. Designed and built to look like a ruined tower. Illuminated at night using portable lighting.
#lightpainting

A ray of light in a hopeless place.
Abandoned psychiatric hospital, Italy.
#italy

Charred storage units within the admin block of abandoned psychiatric hospital in Italy.
#italy

Ornate coloured glass panels within the main entrance at an abandoned psychiatric hospital in the north of Italy.

Empty industrial cable run at a long abandoned factory site near milan, Italy.

Many Londoners walk obliviously above this hidden cistern, located below a public space in London. Built in 1858 by the East London Waterworks company.
#subterranean

Belgian Blast furnace photographed a year before its demolition.
#abandoned

Symmetry within the Inota powerplant in Hungary. Now stripped out and used for light shows and events.
#abandoned

Within the entrance passage to the Kokkinoia Mine at Mitsero, Cyprus.
#cyprus

A bend in a subterranean smoke flue curves into the light at an historic lead mining site in the Yorkshire Dales. These tunnels were designed to carry the dangerous smoke away from the smelting process, the workers did not have a long life expectancy.

If you do, look out for the Trump sponsored agitators. Give the man the opportunity and he'll open fire.

The famous Stow-on-the-Wold church door at St Edwards. Illuminated at night using pillar candles.
#nightphotography

A circular subterranean cistern below London. Built to supply a nearby hospital with clean water. Built in the 1850's.
#subterranean

Straight up within a Victorian-era pumping station.
#industry #Victorian #architecture

Stunning Victorian-era brick arches within a hidden subterranean historic cistern. Illuminated using portable Scurion lights.
#architecture

Below lies hardship, challenge, pain,
But there's so much more to gain,
To stand where few will ever tread,
An honour worth the toil and dread.

Below is silence, wonder, awe,
Delicate beauty, danger, more.
Daily life can make us slaves,
The answer lies within our caves.

Below the mountain, hill or karst,
Frontier, labyrinth, dark and vast,
Pitches, squeezes, sumps and crawls,
Explored with heavy gear to haul.

Below is where some find escape,
Where inner fears can form and shape,
Challenged twice, our body and mind,
In conquering both, ourselves we find.

Deep beneath Sheffield city centre, the River Sheaf flows in ancient culverts. Emerging into the light at points before heading back into the darkness again.

Looking straight up from the top of the central domed roof of a gas holders water tank.

The Hospital of St Cross and Almshouses in Winchester.

HELP NEEDED
The image from my epic 12 hour 'there and back' journey to create a light-painted night shot of the Whiteford Point cast-iron lighthouse has made it into the finals of the CIOB Art of Building.
If you have a fes moments you can vote for it here:
artofbuilding.org/vote/?cid=10...

I've produced four themed sets of greetings cards (4 cards per set). They are really nicely printed and I'm really quite proud of them. Great for celebrations or just telling your friend how much they mean to you. The written word is pretty special these days.
Message me if you would like some.

Yordas Cave in the Yorkshire Dales. Backlit illumination for dramatic effect.
#yorkshire #underground #subterranean #explore #caving

Looking through the exhaust collector and into what was Europe's largest anechoic chamber when in use. NGTE< Hampshire. Now demolished.
#abandoned #industry #forgottenheritageart

Control room at a small power plant that delivered a dedicated electricity supply to a jet engine testing establishment. A top secret site whilst in operation, where all of the UK's military engine projects were worked on. Closed in 2001.
#abandoned #forgottenheritage #controlroom #ngte #industry

THE BELLY OF THE BEAST
My first abandoned location also happened to be one of the most impressive. This is the exhaust end of the testing environment for the Olympus engines of concorde. Built in 1963 at the NGTE, Hampshire.
#abandoned #forgottenheritageart #industrial #tunnel #jetengine #lightpaint

Straight up and out of a large cooling tower at a long-abandoned Belgian power station.
Large format art available.
#forgottenheritagerart #abandoned #belgium #industry #symmetry #up

The interior of a subterranean smoke flue, located just below the surface of the moor at an historic lead mining site near to Grassington, Yorkshire.
Large format wall art available.
#forgottenheritageart #leadmining #industrial #history #yorkshire #grassington

Colourful corridor with beautiful patina of peeling paint and natural decay at an abandoned manor house.
Large format art prints available.
#forgottenheritageart #abandoned #ruin #corridor