Fading VictoriaConsumer hunger for residential land and infrastructure is slowly destroying many historical sites located near the steadily expanding fringes of suburbia. Weather also takes its toll on beautiful rural buildings that have been abandoned by their owners. What causes them to just walk away?Now: a photographer documents a handful of sites located in the state of Victoria, Australia -- before they fade away completely...
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Greenvale, Victoria, Australia A Parapunch card filled out in 1943 that appears to be details of ammunition stored at the former RANAD base. This soggy ... (more) |
Craigieburn, Victoria, Australia Fire and vandalism has destroyed much of the structure of this old home. The chimneys and interior have art deco features ... (more) |
Wollert, Victoria, Australia The remains of what is believed to be a hotel at one time. The building has unfortunately deteriorated significantly over ... (more) |
Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia A small reminder of what would be considered today an unusual way to transmit power: via water piped under pressure. The ... (more) | ||||
Bulla, Victoria, Australia Inside the old mill building it is apparent that it is mostly just a remnant shell. Some flooring beams and supports are ... (more) |
Wollert, Victoria, Australia This is all that remains of the small weatherboard cottage, which caught fire in early 2011 under suspicious circumstances ... (more) |
Wollert, Victoria, Australia An old shed with post and rail fencing, possibly part of the original Summerhill estate in Wollert. This would have been ... (more) |
Truganina, Victoria, Australia A trashed room inside an old cottage. Some sections of the wallpaper have old newspaper and up to four layers of different ... (more) | ||||
Truganina, Victoria, Australia View from the guard house looking towards building 9 at a former armaments depot. A White Pages phone directory from 1984 ... (more) |
Romsey, Victoria, Australia A prominent landmark on the main road into Romsey, this building functioned as a hotel until the late 1800's. The weatherboards ... (more) |
Greendale, Victoria, Australia Land for this Church of England was reserved in 1868, so presumably building commenced around the same time. It appears it ... (more) |
Red Lion, Victoria, Australia Side view of the Greenock Park Hotel. The shell seems to be reasonably intact, but it has apparently been in this state for ... (more) | ||||
Red Lion, Victoria, Australia Ruins of the Greenock Park Hotel. I arrived here after dark due to being distracted by some other nice finds in the surrounding ... (more) |
Kimbolton, Victoria, Australia A bridge abandoned when this area was flooded in the 1960s to create Lake Eppalock. Drought in more recent times has receded ... (more) |
Clarkefield, Victoria, Australia An abandoned railway signalling system, with cut wire still hanging from the pole. The remains of an old semaphore signal ... (more) |
Metcalfe East, Victoria, Australia A small bridge crosses a creek intersecting the former Redesdale railway line. The last train passed over it sometime in ... (more) | ||||
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