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The unusually slender Kiipsaare Lighthouse on the Harilaid peninsula of Saaremaa island, Estonia, stood 25 metres inland when it was built in 1933. But over the decades, coastal erosion and rising sea levels not only rendered it offshore at high tide, but also reversed a seaward lean acquired by the disused structure following its abandonment.
Urban Ghosts has featured various forgotten underground stations, many of them dug out by hand during the Victorian era and early 20th century. But as Tech Graffiti reports, these vast caverns connected by eight miles of tunnel beneath Manhattan will soon be transformed into New York City’s newest subway line – blasted and bored using the latest in modern technology.
London is renowned for many things, not lease the criminals that have roamed its streets over many generations and brought terror to its inhabitants. Over the years there have been numerous miscreants at work in the capital whose crimes have been recognised throughout history.
Following on from our Monday article showing the sorry remains of a pile of ex-RAF Tornado F3 interceptors after being ‘reduced to produce’ (aka stripped for parts and left for scrap), we thought we’d include a few images of stored Tornado GR1 and GR4 bombers (and one more F3!).
In 1899, Illinois Telephone and Telegraph laid telephone cables through Chicago by building a network of underground tunnels. A narrow gauge railway was laid to assist with excavating the tunnels and installing the cables but the system was quickly adapted and used as a means for transporting freight between public stations, basements and elevator shafts.
It’s hard to imagine these gaunt, gutted shells were once part of the UK’s most advanced interceptor aircraft of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The Tornado F3 defended UK skies from the 1980s until 2011, passing the mantle to the far superior Eurofighter Typhoon. Nevertheless, its demise reflects the end of an era.
From the outside, the solemn visage of Mount St Mary’s Catholic Church reflects the dwindling congregations of many inner city working class neighbourhoods. But unlike some abandoned churches, many grand features, from ornate pillars to crumbling statues, survive inside Mount St Mary’s.
From its inception in 1856, the Familistère, or Social Palace, became a model of social innovation. The brainchild of French industrialist Jean-Baptiste André Godin, the 18 acre site in Guise, northern France, which once housed 900 workers and their families, is currently being regenerated for modern use.
These images of the abandoned Mark Lane tube station in London show a network of subterranean rooms and dingy tunnels apparently frozen in time. Adorning their walls are various vintage movie posters dating back to the 1960s, including Soviet documentary ‘Ordinary Fascism’.
With two of three former orbiter processing facilities now disused and the other leased to Boeing, the Space Shuttle era is well and truly at an end. In this article we take a nostalgic look back at the hangars while they were hives of scientific activity.
Until 1992, Suzhou Creek had been a major industrial corridor snaking through downtown Shanghai. But as increased urbanisation left many factories and warehouses abandoned, bold plans were drawn up to revitalise the area as a cultural centre.
Extending for 6.5 miles deep beneath London is a silent railway network that has been mothballed since 2003. Originally opened in 1927 to carry parcels between Whitechapel and the Paddington Sorting Office, the disused railway served eight stations and remains in good condition.
Death Cafes are part of an appreciation for death thinking and death art which Jon Underwood is currently examining in his ‘Impermanence’ project. Increasingly popular over the past several years, this article offers a brief Death Cafe overview.
When the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down in Florida on July 21, 2011, it marked the end of an era. In this article we take a look at the ships and historic voyages of discovery that gave NASA’s orbiters their names.
This unique British Pathé preview, set to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, celebrates the last journey of the famous Cunard ocean liner RMS Mauretania, from Southampton to the shipbreakers yard at Rosyth, via her birthplace on the River Tyne.
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