Me and Indiana Jones, we're like twins...

[Pendaric]

I've posted these before elsewhere, but for those who haven't seen them this is an old abandoned hall a couple of miles from my house that me and my daughter went exploring last year.

This place is Upper Shibden Hall, which has been empty for decades and is slowly being reclaimed by nature. It's only a hundred feet from the main road, but it's hidden by the trees and not many people even know it's there.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k225/baldbantam/Upper%20Shibden%20Hall/DSC00047.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k225/baldbantam/Upper%20Shibden%20Hall/DSC00044.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k225/baldbantam/Upper%20Shibden%20Hall/DSC00045.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k225/baldbantam/Upper%20Shibden%20Hall/DSC00049.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k225/baldbantam/Upper%20Shibden%20Hall/DSC00050.jpg

[Christina]

Those are great. My sister lives in Cork in Ireland and there are old ruins of abbeys and churches all around and they have no interest in them because they're so used to them. They seemed surprised that I wanted to go out and wander all around to look at them. I don't have any pictures to show because they were all on film but I thought they were incredible. Here, 'old' is usually from the late 1700s at best. On the east coast there are colonial and old southern places and on the west coast there are old missions and similar Spanish buildings, but I'm not sure what's left in the middle besides forts. I spent my time in Europe with my mouth hanging open like a typical tourist looking at all of the amazing architecture and and if those cathedrals didn't make me feel catholic again nothing ever will.

These are what are considered ruins where I live. If you wander about a mile down the creek at the back of my property there are some old lime kilns that the woods are reclaiming. Only locals and historians know that they're there anymore so they're virtually untouched and I've never seen anyone else there when I go. I go there to read sometimes in the summer.

This is the front of the main kiln.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/KGpictures/12-28-08024.jpg

This is looking out from inside.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/KGpictures/12-28-08017.jpg

This is how it looks from the top. If you didn't know they were there and came at them from the other side and weren't paying attention you could easily fall in.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/KGpictures/12-28-08020.jpg

[Mediancat]

Cool pictures.

Rob

[Danhalen]

Those are really nice. Now I feel like I have to get some pics from the Erie Canal Towpath.

[Christina]

I forgot all about the amazing Indian ruins in the southwest. I've never been to any of the big ones but I've seen some small ones.

These next ones were taken somewhere in Utah or Arizona.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/KGpictures/vacation05-06/Vacation2006-5-400115.jpg

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/KGpictures/vacation05-06/Vacation2006-5-400152.jpg

These two are from near Sedona, Arizona.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/KGpictures/vacation05-06/Vacation2006-5-400264.jpg

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/KGpictures/vacation05-06/Vacation2006-5-400238.jpg

This one is "Montezuma's Castle" in Arizona. Montezuma never went near the place.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/KGpictures/vacation05-06/Vacation2006-5-400401.jpg

[Christina]

*bump

I likes this thread. Does anyone else have pictures of old ruins or remains that they've visited?

[Matty]

well i dont have my pics available at the mo but this is possible the best set of ruins round which i ever took a wander. Tulum on hte Yucatan Peninsula

http://images.google.ca/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://donnaaries.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/tulum.JPG&usg=AFQjCNFvavyS8rM9EirrC7W_HX44DLQAkQhttp://images.google.ca/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://www.dallas.net/%257Elalo/tulum.jpg&usg=AFQjCNHAtLAU48qz9txiJToDv-R38T1gxwhttp://images.google.ca/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://www.sacredsites.com/americas/mexico/images/temple-kukulkan-tulum-500.jpg&usg=AFQjCNGBIALNttdMBpext7yYolEGQiyVPg


That said my favourite ruin in the world is this one.

http://images.google.ca/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2132/2094315948_91d4e906ce.jpg&usg=AFQjCNFtSteOSGpeBDAxSk4KyuabV1zGsQ
http://images.google.ca/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://www.destination-cornwall.co.uk/NCI/Rame/rame-head-aerial-view.jpg&usg=AFQjCNEU3XeTh0PUMtDUjTrqRDznagxDMAhttp://images.google.ca/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/chrisevans1/Rame%2520Head.jpg&usg=AFQjCNE3-4PatOCSNQruFP8et5IHBoK1Ug

Its and old chapel and lookout where they used to pray and keep an eye out for the returning fishing fleets. If you stand on the platform at the back you are looking to sea(english channel) straight ahead, all the way up the Devon coast on your left hand, and all the way down the Cornish one on your right. On a clear day you can see for tens to a hundred or so miles.

Its also a fine wee spot to skin up, get laid, or sometimes even rustle up a shroom brew on the trangia and just to sit watching the sea. Some good if notoriously treacherous fishing spots round there too, and just off the point was where i got to swim along with a juvenile basking shark for a bit.

I was a lucky kid to grow up where i did. Stomping ground and a half,
i have a large print of the framed by the window of another ruined chapel just down the coast which was taken by a school friend turned photographer and i love it.

[Pendaric]

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/

This forum is for people to post pictures of places they've been in.

I'm not condoning the trespassing, because often they're breaking in to private property to get the pictures and do the exploration, but a lot of the reports are fascinating (to me, anyway).

[Lisa0315]

Wow! Really cool pics, everyone!