Lawns Wood Cemetery - April 2014

Just passing en-route and we dropped in, not sure how I got to know about this place but some cracking shots to be had in this cemetery which sits on the outskirts of Otley, West Yorkshire.

 



This cemetery has some very unusual headstones and memorials...



The door, slightly open waiting for someone to enter or perhaps leave ?



Now if I had seen that as a child I would have shit myself and had sleepless nights for months.

So we carried on walking, not far, until we found this memorial, no Bart Simpson or similar engraved on this one.






 

 



We continued, sadly our search for the Weeping Angels was in vain, but the search will continue.

 



Just don't blink as you press the shutter....

Agecroft Mortuary Chapel, Salford - January 2014

Back in October 2012 I popped round to Agecroft Mortuary Chapel, to have a look at what is officially in the UK top twenty of historical properties at risk - Urban Spaceman and I en-route to his first flight with Captain Pugwash, dropped in for another look see.

On the previous visit the building was slowly being enveloped by triffid, thankfully someone has got the beanstalk trimmers out and hacked away at the foliage.

 

Its still overgrown, but a least you can see the building now, with its darting tree rats.

 



Out of respect to a graveyard of busy mourners (and our lack of Ninja like "Powers") we didn't pop over the rather spikey fence, but peered thru the windows at the fallen floors, ceilings and pigeon poo.

 

Sadly merely trimming your bush will not save a hole









No doubt we will pop back at some point, hopefully somebody will save this wonderful building before it falls down.

Anyway on to the airport, for Urban Spaceman had an unexpected flight to catch, but that is another story for another day.....

The Bus Graveyard, Lancashire

I'd seen the reports, I'd spotted it from the plane - It was on my doorstep, I just couldn't find it.....




Roll on 7 months and Urban Spaceman phones to say he has figured out the exact spot and off we went on another Sunday mooch.

Nice little place this, we had a chat with the farmer and swapped business cards and agreed to take some pictures of his new project in exchange for a mooch round his collection of decaying buses.

The buses are donor buses for a local preservation society and have slowly reduced in numbers over the years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Thanks for looking, this place was full of wildlife and the farmer would prefer you ask to mooch as he has a number of wildlife projects in hand.