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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Mia Mia, Victoria, Australia Revisited 3 years later: Unfortunately, this tiny cottage appears to have collapsed. Visible in the debris is a sink and ... (more) |
Malmsbury, Victoria, Australia Revisited 18 months later: The house is still there, as are the two horses. This time only one of them wanted to pose. |
Malmsbury, Victoria, Australia Revisited 18 months later: The Calder Freeway bypass is complete, and this abandoned house is still standing. It used to ... (more) |
Mernda, Victoria, Australia An old beehive well on an abandoned rural property of roughly 300 acres in size. Being in a prime land development area - ... (more) | ||||
Yandoit, Victoria, Australia Two mailboxes at the start of a dead end road. Battery ruins visible in the background. |
Darraweit Guim, Victoria, Australia Charming rural sign, complete with pellet shot holes. |
Beveridge, Victoria, Australia The former John Kelly House at Beveridge is fenced off from casual observers, but appears to be gradually succumbing to vandals ... (more) |
Kilmore, Victoria, Australia A magpie poses momentarily (see area to the right of the door) before wandering around this abandoned property. I could do ... (more) | ||||
Golden Point, Victoria, Australia A row of abandoned and boarded up shops and houses in Ballarat. There are a total of five shopfronts and two houses which ... (more) |
Longwood, Victoria, Australia It is not known whether the painting on this door is original or a historical reproduction, but it is known that this facade ... (more) |
Bulla, Victoria, Australia A Virgin Blue aircraft passes over a cemetary moments before touching down. The cemetary has obviously been here longer than ... (more) |
Craigieburn, Victoria, Australia Huge earth moving trucks involved in the construction of the Hume Freeway Craigieburn bypass. This photo was taken at about ... (more) | ||||
Greenvale, Victoria, Australia This stone wall probably existed long before the land was ever used for storing explosives for the Australian Navy and Australian ... (more) |
Trentham, Victoria, Australia Closed abruptly by a fire nearly 2 1/2 years before this photo was taken, an old hotel sits and waits for the day it will ... (more) |
Greenvale, Victoria, Australia If it wasn't for the remnants of window glass in the former Navy armaments depot in Somerton (now Greenvale) you might be ... (more) |
Glenlyon, Victoria, Australia An abandoned house in Glenlyon. Parts of the weatherboard portion have been patched over with corrugated iron, but it's probably ... (more) | ||||
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