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  • Overgrown tomb and gravestones are covered by ivy undergrowth in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of society from the industrial age. On the left is a memorial ('With loving memory of Charlotte Catherine, the beloved wife ..") including an angel figure that leans over at an angle, probably caused by tree roots or perhaps by vandalism during the 50s and 60s when this land was left open for youngsters to commit criminal damage to stonework and carvings. During the cemetery's annual open day, there is an opportunity for the of the cemetery 'Friends' (society) to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young, to help preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery12-16-05-2009.jpg
  • A mountain bike left in an overgrown back garden, partially-covered by a thin tarpaulin in undergrowth.
    garden_bike01-30-09-2013.jpg
  • A mountain bike left in an overgrown back garden, partially-covered by a thin tarpaulin in undergrowth.
    garden_bike06-30-09-2013.jpg
  • A mountain bike left in an overgrown back garden, partially-covered by a thin tarpaulin in undergrowth.
    garden_bike04-30-09-2013.jpg
  • Ten years after the London 2012 Olympics were based here at Stratford, is an overgrown access pathway just outside the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, on 14th June 2022, in London, England. The former main Olympic venue area was controversially re-landscaped from an old industrial estate. Its promised legacy is a green space now known as The Elizabeth Park which remains a wildlife habitat and whose centrepieces are still the Velodrome and Aquatic Centre used by the public while the main Olympic statium is home to West Ham Football Club.
    stratford-04-14-06-2022.jpg
  • Ten years after the London 2012 Olympics were based here at Stratford, is an overgrown access pathway just outside the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, on 14th June 2022, in London, England. The former main Olympic venue area was controversially re-landscaped from an old industrial estate. Its promised legacy is a green space now known as The Elizabeth Park which remains a wildlife habitat and whose centrepieces are still the Velodrome and Aquatic Centre used by the public while the main Olympic statium is home to West Ham Football Club.
    stratford-03-14-06-2022.jpg
  • Ten years after the London 2012 Olympics were based here at Stratford, is an overgrown access pathway just outside the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, on 14th June 2022, in London, England. The former main Olympic venue area was controversially re-landscaped from an old industrial estate. Its promised legacy is a green space now known as The Elizabeth Park which remains a wildlife habitat and whose centrepieces are still the Velodrome and Aquatic Centre used by the public while the main Olympic statium is home to West Ham Football Club.
    elizabeth_park-88-14-06-2022.jpg
  • Ten years after the London 2012 Olympics were based here at Stratford, is an overgrown access pathway just outside the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, on 14th June 2022, in London, England. The former main Olympic venue area was controversially re-landscaped from an old industrial estate. Its promised legacy is a green space now known as The Elizabeth Park which remains a wildlife habitat and whose centrepieces are still the Velodrome and Aquatic Centre used by the public while the main Olympic statium is home to West Ham Football Club.
    stratford-02-14-06-2022.jpg
  • Ten years after the London 2012 Olympics were based here at Stratford, is an overgrown access pathway just outside the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, on 14th June 2022, in London, England. The former main Olympic venue area was controversially re-landscaped from an old industrial estate. Its promised legacy is a green space now known as The Elizabeth Park which remains a wildlife habitat and whose centrepieces are still the Velodrome and Aquatic Centre used by the public while the main Olympic statium is home to West Ham Football Club.
    stratford-01-14-06-2022.jpg
  • Collapsed outdoor toilet shack in overgrown land at Bakonygyirot, Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
    hungary_toilet-04-25-06-2016.jpg
  • A deserted landscape of a street and overgrown paths and empty housing in the former Russian Soviet army camp in occupied East Germany (ex-GDR/DDR), on 16th June 19990, on Halb Insel Wustrow, near Rostock, Germany. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housing civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    soviet_village-16-06-1990_1.jpg
  • Collapsed outdoor toilet shack in overgrown land at Bakonygyirot, Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
    hungary_toilet-03-25-06-2016.jpg
  • Collapsed outdoor toilet shack in overgrown land at Bakonygyirot, Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
    hungary_toilet-02-25-06-2016.jpg
  • Crofter Angus McHattie bends over to tend an overgrown family garden in the hamlet of Waterloo, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
    5108-RPB59-angus_mchattie60-28-09-20...jpg
  • Collapsed outdoor toilet shack in overgrown land at Bakonygyirot, Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
    hungary_toilet-01-25-06-2016.jpg
  • An old T34 Soviet-era tank covered in graffiti abandoned on overgrown wasteground in Bermondsey, London. ..The T-34 was a Soviet medium tank produced from 1940 to 1958. Although its armour and armament were surpassed by later tanks of the era, it has been often credited as the most effective, efficient and influential design of World War II. First produced at the KhPZ factory in Kharkov (Kharkiv, Ukraine), it was the mainstay of Soviet armoured forces throughout World War II, and widely exported afterwards. It was the most-produced tank of the war, and the second most-produced tank of all time, after its successor, the T-54/55 series. In 1996, T-34 variants were still in service in at least 27 countries...
    soviet_tank01-01-05-2012.jpg
  • Now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland in Seething, Norfolk England, this wall mural was once one of the barracks housing 3,000 young World War 2 bomber crews so was probably painted by a young aspiring artist and aviator with the 448th Bomb Group, a fleet of bombers based in England from November 1943 to July 1945. The picture depicts a confrontation between US Air Force B-24 Liberators, a P-51 Mustang and probably a German Dornier. There are hairline cracks in the plaster but the yellow hue of the hand-painted wall is largely intact despite damp conditions in the shed. There are however, other artistic details now faded. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis18-05-10-2000.jpg
  • A classic, K-series red British Telecom (BT) pay phone box that is still in use sits surrounded by undergrowth near the harbour at Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Amid a mass of green foliage, the freshly-painted red kiosk stands as an iconic piece of architecture that has graced Britain's towns and villages for 70-odd years. These K-series kiosks were largely designed in 1936 by the renowned designer Giles Gilbert Scott. With the increasing use of mobile phones the static phone boxes are still used in remote areas of the UK where mobile service is still patchy and in major towns and cities, their presence is becoming rarer. In rural regions however, the British red phone box is still a delight to see and use.
    wales_pembrokeshire21-03-08-2007.jpg
  • A construction hoarding featuring the London Stadium, once known as the Olympic stadium during the 2012 Olympiad, on 16th August 2017, in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, East London, England.
    elizabeth_park-03-16-08-2017.jpg
  • The word Little on a former shop's feeling frontage.
    little_shop02-12-09-2014.jpg
  • Abandoned farmhouse property in French Indre-et-Loire region, France.
    civray_farm10-07-07-2014.jpg
  • Thorns coming through broken window at the former WW2 Old Buckenham airfield, built during 1942-43 for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Eighth Air Force. It was given designation USAAF Air Station 144. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign. Throughout combat, the unit served chiefly as a strategic bombardment organization. Targets included a fuel depot at Dulmen, marshalling yards at Paderborn, aircraft assembly plants at Gotha, railway centres at Hamm, an ordnance depot at Glinde, oil refineries at Gelsenkirchen, chemical works at Leverkusen, an airfield at Neumünster, a canal at Minden, and a railway viaduct at Altenbeken. James "Jimmy" Stewart, the Hollywood movie star, was Group Operations Officer at Old Buckenham during the spring of 1944.
    WW2_bomber_base01-05-10-2000.jpg
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  • Natural landscape of grass-covered missile silos at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
    greenham_common02-19-03-2003.jpg
  • Derelict agricultural buildings in a former hospital grounds, once a wartime medical centre for the airfield at Shipdam, the home of the B-24 Liberators of the 44th Bomber Group of the US Air Force during the second world war.
    shipdam_huts07-04-08-2013.jpg
  • Abandoned land of the former Wroxham Hotel in Wroxham in the heart of the Norfolk Broads.
    derelict_wroxham04-30-07-2013.jpg
  • A blurred cat walks past the rotting front door of a Victorian terraced house now dilapidated and abandoned on the streets of Toxteth. Toxteth is an inner-city area of Liverpool, Merseyside. It is located to the south of the city and is synonymous with social issues, degradation and poverty with some of the most underprivileged families in the UK. Recently many streets in the worst areas have been demolished including Beatle Ringo Starr's childhood home.
    liverpool_dereliction01-08-08-1991.jpg
  • Derelict landscape of the former Hackney Wick greyhound and speedway stadium, demolished for the 2012 Olympics. The stadium opened in 1932 and was principally used for greyhound racing and speedway.
    hackney_wick_stadium4-15-07-2003.jpg
  • Local school childrens' artwork of Europe printed on large hoardings on perimeter wall of 2012 Olympic construction site.
    stratford36-14-10-2011.jpg
  • Unfinished and abandoned construction project in the town of Gogollos Vega, near Granada.
    spain_recession-8-12-April-2011.jpg
  • Unfinished and abandoned construction project in the town of Gogollos Vega, near Granada.
    spain_recession-15-14-April-2011.jpg
  • A residents car parking sign still stands to deter others from leaving vehicles on an abandoned derelict estate near Bradford city centre. Boarded up windows and doors show there is no longer any residents or their cars.
    no_parking11-08-05-2009.jpg
  • Stone crosses in the wild cemetery of St. Mark's Church on 13th September 2018, in Brithdir, near Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.
    brithdir_cemetery-02-13-09-2018.jpg
  • Landscape of the Forresters Pub, a long-standing business featuring 'exotic dancing ladies' on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-24-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Abandoned farmhouse property in French Indre-et-Loire region, France.
    civray_farm02-07-07-2014.jpg
  • Abandoned farmhouse property in French Indre-et-Loire region, France.
    civray_farm07-07-07-2014.jpg
  • Abandoned farmhouse property in French Indre-et-Loire region, France.
    civray_farm03-07-07-2014.jpg
  • Abandoned and derelict premises at the rear of a former garden centre business, due soon for redevelopment.
    derelict_bsuiness04-15-05-2014.jpg
  • Abandoned and derelict premises at the rear of a former garden centre business, due soon for redevelopment.
    derelict_bsuiness03-15-05-2014.jpg
  • Abandoned and derelict premises at the rear of a former garden centre business, due soon for redevelopment.
    derelict_bsuiness01-15-05-2014.jpg
  • garden_wheelbarrow02-30-09-2013.jpg
  • Derelict agricultural buildings in a former hospital grounds, once a wartime medical centre for the airfield at Shipdam, the home of the B-24 Liberators of the 44th Bomber Group of the US Air Force during the second world war.
    shipdam_huts06-04-08-2013.jpg
  • Derelict agricultural buildings in a former hospital grounds, once a wartime medical centre for the airfield at Shipdam, the home of the B-24 Liberators of the 44th Bomber Group of the US Air Force during the second world war.
    shipdam_huts04-04-08-2013.jpg
  • Entrance to the former hospital grounds, once a wartime medical centre for the airfield at Shipdam, the home of the B-24 Liberators of the 44th Bomber Group of the US Air Force during the second world war.
    shipdam_huts01-04-08-2013.jpg
  • Sprayed or painted mural showing a country cabin landscape, on the side of an industrial building in Mauerpark - an open space on the site of the old Berlin wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
    berlin_landscape02-07-04-2013.jpg
  • Converted from an old boat is a ramshackle artist's studio on Eel Pie Island on the River Thames, London. Eel Pie Island is an island in the River Thames at Twickenham in the Borough of Richmond upon Thames, London. It is situated on the Tideway and can be reached only by footbridge or boat. The island was known as a major jazz and blues venue in the 1960s. In 1969, the Eel Pie Island Hotel was occupied by a small group of local anarchists including illustrator Clifford Harper. By 1970 it had become the UK's largest hippie commune.
    eel-pie_island03-09-12-2012.jpg
  • Child's scooter lies on wasteland, a disused graffiti sprayed platform on an inner-city overland station.
    graffiti_landscape02-24-02-2012.jpg
  • Derelict landscape of the former Hackney Wick greyhound and speedway stadium, demolished for the 2012 Olympics. The stadium opened in 1932 and was principally used for greyhound racing and speedway.
    hackney_wick_stadium2-15-07-2003.jpg
  • Hen and fishing boat equipment at the Old Smithy, Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, Scotland. http://www.pennyghael.org.uk/Community/Storage/index.htm
    isle_of_mull77-18-11-2011.jpg
  • Local school childrens' artwork of Europe printed on large hoardings on perimeter wall of 2012 Olympic construction site.
    stratford37-14-10-2011.jpg
  • Unfinished and abandoned construction project in the town of Gogollos Vega, near Granada.
    spain_recession-9-12-April-2011.jpg
  • Unfinished and abandoned construction project in the town of Gogollos Vega, near Granada.
    spain_recession-14-14-April-2011.jpg
  • Unfinished and abandoned construction project in the town of Gogollos Vega, near Granada.
    spain_recession-12-12-April-2011.jpg
  • Unfinished and abandoned construction project in the town of Gogollos Vega, near Granada.
    spain_recession-11-12-April-2011.jpg
  • Unfinished and abandoned construction project in the town of Gogollos Vega, near Granada.
    spain_recession-10-12-April-2011.jpg
  • calahorra_litter-1-14-April-2011.jpg
  • Rusted corrugated iron in abandoned livestock farm pens in Glen Bauchor, Newtonmore, Scotland.
    newtonmore04-02-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Among headstones and graves, two local children play in the unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). Along with their pet Labrador dog who enjoys joining in on the fun, the children are playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society.
    wales_cemetery01-15-06-1986.jpg
  • With few visitors to see, a young boy pees into the water surrounding a model town at the Splendid China model village, the 30 hectares large tourist attraction in the city of Shenzhen, China. The kid aims into the water with his mother's help. In the background we see some of the 50,000 ceramic figures and scenes from a period in Chinese history and further away, modern skyscrapers in the metropolis contrasting with ancient, traditional village life. Splendid China is an attraction at the Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen that has scaled down replicas of China's historical buildings, wonderful scenes and folk customs. The scale models are of a 1:15 with 100 miniaturized landmarks such as The Terracotta Warriors; Great Wall; Forbidden City; Old Summer Palace etc. all laid out according to their geographic locations.
    shenzhen_peeing04-21-1995.jpg
  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Gantries and tracking equipment in the wasteland..Rocket gantries and tracking equipment left to rust in the back yard of NASA scientist Charles Bell. Assorted rocket paraphenalia. At the very back of the auction site, a whole jungle of Apollo and Shuttle junk was buried in the undergrowth having been forgotten there for decades. Here we see gantries and tracking (communications) structures.
    Nasa04 RBA.jpg
  • In a farmer's tool shed, a painted mural depicting B-24 Liberators sweeping over the cracked brick wall of what was once an officers? mess at the WW2 Wendling airfield, Norfolk England. Below this scene of heroic military might, young officers flying Liberators of the 392nd Bomb Group gathered before and after raids into Germany from November 1943 to July 1945. The runway is now partly covered by a turkey farm and this building is now full of car and tractor parts. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis19-05-10-2000.jpg
  • Weeds have grown over a bus stop sign near a business selling stacked pallets on an industrial roadside West Thurrock, Essex
    river_business30-31-08-2007.jpg
  • Makeshift scarecrow stands pinned against a tree in a garden belonging to crofter Angus McHattie, Waterloo, Isle of Skye.
    5108-RPB59-angus_mchattie81-28-09-20...jpg
  • A country walker emerges from a dark foot tunnel under a railway line, into bright sunlight, on 21st October 2018, near Hollingbourne;, Kent, England.
    kent_walk-03-21-10-2018.jpg
  • Stone crosses in the wild cemetery of St. Mark's Church on 13th September 2018, in Brithdir, near Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.
    brithdir_cemetery-01-13-09-2018.jpg
  • Land belonging to poor, rural housing near the town of Bakonyszentlaszlo, Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
    hungary_house-02-26-06-2016.jpg
  • An urban landscape detail of cactus and shale in the Centre Commercial le Polygone shopping mall on 19th June 2016, in Montpellier, France.
    montpellier-94-19-06-2016.jpg
  • Abandoned farmhouse property in French Indre-et-Loire region, France.
    civray_farm05-07-07-2014.jpg
  • Abandoned farmhouse property in French Indre-et-Loire region, France.
    civray_farm04-07-07-2014.jpg
  • Abandoned and derelict premises at the rear of a former garden centre business, due soon for redevelopment.
    derelict_bsuiness02-15-05-2014.jpg
  • Decaying Victorian brick wall and present-day graffiti in London's east end.
    graffiti_wall01-17-11-2000.jpg
  • garden_wheelbarrow03-30-09-2013.jpg
  • Moss and weeds now grow where once B-24 Liberators of the 392nd US Air Force bomb Group took-off to attack German cities during WW2. Land once again owned by local farmers, the airfields of Norfolk and Suffolk in south-east England were home to 85,000 US personnel from 1942-45.
    runway_weeds01-10-01-2003.jpg
  • Natural landscape of grass-covered missile silos at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
    greenham_common03-19-03-2003.jpg
  • Derelict agricultural buildings in a former hospital grounds, once a wartime medical centre for the airfield at Shipdam, the home of the B-24 Liberators of the 44th Bomber Group of the US Air Force during the second world war.
    shipdam_huts08-04-08-2013.jpg
  • Derelict agricultural buildings in a former hospital grounds, once a wartime medical centre for the airfield at Shipdam, the home of the B-24 Liberators of the 44th Bomber Group of the US Air Force during the second world war.
    shipdam_huts05-04-08-2013.jpg
  • Derelict agricultural buildings in a former hospital grounds, once a wartime medical centre for the airfield at Shipdam, the home of the B-24 Liberators of the 44th Bomber Group of the US Air Force during the second world war.
    shipdam_huts03-04-08-2013.jpg
  • Derelict agricultural buildings in a former hospital grounds, once a wartime medical centre for the airfield at Shipdam, the home of the B-24 Liberators of the 44th Bomber Group of the US Air Force during the second world war.
    shipdam_huts02-04-08-2013.jpg
  • Child's scooter lies on wasteland, a disused graffiti sprayed platform on an inner-city overland station.
    graffiti_landscape01-24-02-2012.jpg
  • Derelict landscape of the former Hackney Wick greyhound and speedway stadium, demolished for the 2012 Olympics. The stadium opened in 1932 and was principally used for greyhound racing and speedway.
    hackney_wick_stadium3-15-07-2003.jpg
  • Derelict landscape of the former Hackney Wick greyhound and speedway stadium, demolished for the 2012 Olympics. The stadium opened in 1932 and was principally used for greyhound racing and speedway.
    hackney_wick_stadium1-15-07-2003.jpg
  • Unfinished and abandoned construction project in the town of Gogollos Vega, near Granada.
    spain_recession-7-12-April-2011.jpg
  • Unfinished and abandoned construction project in the town of Gogollos Vega, near Granada.
    spain_recession-16-14-April-2011.jpg
  • Closed and abandoned primary school playground in Oban, Scotland.
    oban_school04-03-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Closed and abandoned primary school playground in Oban, Scotland.
    oban_school01-03-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Two local children squeeze through railings of the  unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). The kids have walked their dog through this field filled with old headstones and graves, playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society. .
    wales_cemetery02-15-06-1986.jpg
  • Rotting in the undergrowth near the harbour at Newport, Pembrokeshire, North-east Wales, lies an old rowing boat. The timbers are succumbing to the weather and tidal waters of the River Nevern and the boat is barely afloat in the waterlogged terrain. Weeds and other vegetation is gradually overtaking its integrity and its wooden frame is host to an abundance of plant and wildlife. It can no longer serve as a vessel of the river as it is a wreck that nature is reclaiming and soon to hide completely from view.
    wales_pembrokeshire23-03-08-2007.jpg
  • A Coke can lies in a gutter below a sign wanting pallets on an industrial roadside in West Thurrock, Thames gateway
    river_business17-31-08-2007.jpg
  • Wall mural showing WW2 bombing targets in what is now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland at Seething, Norfolk England. Seething is a former Royal Air Force station, assigned to the 448th Bombardment Group (Heavy) flying B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign. The group enered combat on 22 December 1943, and until April 1945 served primarily as a strategic bombardment organization, hitting such targets as aircraft factories in Gotha, ball-bearing plants in Berlin, an airfield at Hanau, U-boat facilities at Kiel, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, synthetic oil refineries at Politz, aircraft engine plants at Rostock, marshalling yards at Cologne, and a Buzz-bomb assembly plant at Fallersleben. Some of these buildings are in a reasonable condition, although they are derelict and overgrown.
    WW2_bomber_base07-05-10-2000.jpg
  • Overgrown Victorian headstone, almost covered in undergrowth in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery13-16-05-2009.jpg
  • Now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland in Seething, Norfolk England, this wall mural was once one of the barracks housing 3,000 young World War 2 bomber crews so was probably painted by a young aspiring artist and aviator with the 448th Bomb Group, a fleet of bombers based in England from November 1943 to July 1945. The picture depicts a confrontation between US Air Force B-24 Liberators, a P-51 Mustang and probably a German Dornier. There are hairline cracks in the plaster but the yellow hue of the hand-painted wall is largely intact despite damp conditions in the shed. There are however, other artistic details now faded. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural use.
    WW2_bomber_base06-05-10-2000.jpg
  • Taken from a tall apartment block, we see an aerial view overlooking the ex-Portuguese colony of Macau's Chinese Christian cemetery of San Miguel. The Cemiterio de São Miguel Arcanjo (Saint Miguel Catholic Cemetery) is located right in the middle of Macao island, on Estrada do Cemiterio and host the graves of the old Dutch and Portuguese colonials that helped shape Macau, now one of the world's most densely-populated city. We see a single Chinese lady walking along one of many criss-crossing diagonal pathways carrying a red bucket of water to tend these graves. She appears tiny compared to the multitude of plots, some which have crosses and others which have simple headstones. They are mostly neat and tidy but some have become overgrown with grass sprouting up. Macau's gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese. The Macau Special Administrative Region is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover. .
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Apollo astronaut walkway structure..Charles Bell's collection of cumbersome rockets, gantries, fuel tanks and browsers lay overgrown in what had become a snake-infested wilderness. One of the Apollo gantries or walkways that the astronauts would have ambled along with their oxygen packs towards the waiting capsule. They now sit rusting awaiting scrap dealers.
    Nasa09 RBA.jpg
  • In an overgrown corner of the Faslane Peace Camp,  home-made signs and a makeshift fire bucket are in undergrowth.
    9999-RPB59-peace_camp04-30-09-2007.jpg
  • Sign post for a desolate Place Balourous on wasteland scrub near Kourou River, in colonial quarter of Kourou, French Guiana.
    esa_guiana21016-08-2007.jpg
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