Capturing What's Left Behind

Capturing What's Left Behind Exploring and capturing forgotten and abandoned places

Lodge Cottage.Another compulsory purchase for £505,000 from the local council to make way for the new road.Massive place...
29/08/2026

Lodge Cottage.

Another compulsory purchase for £505,000 from the local council to make way for the new road.

Massive place this looked, shame there was no access inside.

Mr Martens home.The local council bought this bungalow in 2008 for £360,000. Here Mr Marten rented and lived with his R...
22/08/2026

Mr Martens home.

The local council bought this bungalow in 2008 for £360,000. Here Mr Marten rented and lived with his Rapunzel loving daughter until recently when it was emptied along with 8 other properties to be demolished for a new road.
This property was only built in the 1990s. Such a waste.

The Hospital.This former hospital has a long and interesting history. Set in grounds of 120 acres, its grand Italian sty...
16/08/2026

The Hospital.

This former hospital has a long and interesting history. Set in grounds of 120 acres, its grand Italian style design is now nothing but a shell of its former greatness hidden from the public behind scaffolding and barriers.

It opened in 1852.

The hospital had male, female and children’s wings and used some of the traditional medical techniques in that day to cure insanity, including electric shock treatment.

Conditions such as depression and post natal depression were classed as a mental illness and treated the same as someone with schizophrenia. Brain surgery was believed to cure mental illness and was commonly used in asylums such as this.

The asylum grounds also included the hospitals own burial site for those unfortunate enough never to escape from its intimidating walls. Whilst surveyors were excavating the grounds, work had to come to a stop when human skeletons were uncovered. It turned out they had found the burial site.

The hospital was closed down in 1989 and is now being privately developed into flats. The new housing developments surrounding the asylum are set on the original grounds.

Ashby-de-la-Zouch Castle.Ashby de la Zouch Castle built by William, Lord Hastings. The same man also built Kirby Muxloe ...
14/08/2026

Ashby-de-la-Zouch Castle.

Ashby de la Zouch Castle built by William, Lord Hastings. The same man also built Kirby Muxloe Castle. Lord Hastings added the impressive keep-like Hastings Tower – a luxurious self-contained residence, and a castle within a castle.

A stronghold during the Civil War, Ashby fell to Parliament after a long siege in 1646. You can explore an underground passage from the kitchen to the tower, probably created during the siege.

It also starred in Walter Scott’s historical novel, Ivanhoe.

Rauceby Hospital, originally called Kesteven County Asylum, is a now-defunct mental institution in the parish of Quarrin...
26/07/2026

Rauceby Hospital, originally called Kesteven County Asylum, is a now-defunct mental institution in the parish of Quarrington, Lincolnshire, England. Originally opened in 1902, the main hospital building was closed in 1997 and the site has since been redeveloped as Greylees.

The hospital was designed by George Thomas Hine. Construction began in 1897 and it was officially opened as Kesteven County Asylum on 20 June 1902. The gardens were designed under a separate contract by William Goldring.

An isolation unit, built in 1919 on the western edge of the site was never used as such; instead it housed those residents working on the farm. The facility became Kesteven Mental Hospital in 1924 and Rauceby Mental Hospital in 1933.

In 1940 the building was taken over by the Royal Air Force; renamed as No.4 RAF Hospital Rauceby, it became a crash and burns unit under the control of nearby RAF Cranwell. During its tenure as a burns unit plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe worked at the facility, along with other members of the "Guinea Pig Club". The wartime Burns Unit was situated in Orchard House, built alongside the hospital orchard.

There was a major fire in the hall in 1945 and it was badly damaged although it was subsequently restored. The RAF handed the hospital back for civilian use in 1947 and it joined the National Health Service as Rauceby Hospital in 1948 although patients did not actually return until 1949.

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went through a period of decline and finally closed in December 1997. The site was subsequently developed for residential use by David Wilson Homes as "Greylees".

This is what remains.

Berwick-Upon-Tweed Fortifications.Situated at the mouth of the River Tweed near the border of two kingdoms, the town of ...
19/07/2026

Berwick-Upon-Tweed Fortifications.

Situated at the mouth of the River Tweed near the border of two kingdoms, the town of Berwick suffered centuries of conflict, as control of the town passed back and forward between England and Scotland until the late 17th century. Each crisis brought repairs and improvements to the fortifications, culminating in the great artillery ramparts begun in 1558. These survive largely intact and make Berwick one of the most important fortified towns of Europe.

Former Warehouse/Store.This is an early 19th century warehouse or store building. It is located on the quayside when it ...
10/07/2026

Former Warehouse/Store.

This is an early 19th century warehouse or store building. It is located on the quayside when it would have served to store imports and exports from the, then very active, port.

The Stores.The earliest map showing this on the quayside is in 1850. This is labelled as 'stores'. This is around the sa...
28/05/2026

The Stores.

The earliest map showing this on the quayside is in 1850. This is labelled as 'stores'. This is around the same time as a ballast quay was built.

You can see an old wardrobe through the hole in the wall and also a beautiful old door.

No access inside though it looks too dangerous anyway.

Another one destroyed by fire 😞This was the last explore I did last year. The one I injured my knee at and put my explor...
26/04/2026

Another one destroyed by fire 😞

This was the last explore I did last year. The one I injured my knee at and put my exploring on pause.

It was a great explore, such a big place with everything left behind.

So sad. We explored this and it was in a bad way then tbf but still a lot of history left.
11/04/2026

So sad.
We explored this and it was in a bad way then tbf but still a lot of history left.

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