Wrexham Cemetery Mortuary
Tucked away in a quiet corner of Wrexham Cemetery lies this abandoned 1930s’ mortuary. In 1916 it was decided that Wrexham needed a new hospital …
Canvey Island Urban District Council Office
This building along Long Road was most recently a health centre, but closed in 2018 and has been sitting disused since. It was once perhaps …
South Ockendon Hospital
In February 2024, we visited what remains of South Ockendon Hospital, and were shown around the beautiful recreation hall and other surviving rooms with kind …
State Cinema, Grays
The Esse theatre was constructed in the 1930s – no surprise given its style, and was officially opened on the 5th of September 1938, with …
Bata Shoe Factory & Estate
The Bata shoe factory and estate was built in East Tilbury the 1930s by Czecheslovakian entrepeneur Thomas Bata. It was modelled on the original factory …
Cefn Coed Hospital
Cfen Coed Hospital, in Swansea, is one of few original asylum buildings to still be in use today. It was also one of the last …
Heatherwood Hospital
Heatherwood Hospital, in Ascot, has been in use for over a century. Construction started in early 1920’s for a hospital to care for the children …
Runwell Mental Hospital
Today, the site of Runwell Hospital is nothing more than rubble, with over 500 homes now on the site, although turn back the clock a …
Canvey Bus Museum
See above the front of the depot in 1990 (Frank Whitnell) and in 2013 The Canvey & District Bus Depot was built in 1934, featuring …
Silver End Modernist Village
Silver End is a village in the Braintree area of Essex, constructed in the late 1920s as a self-contained ‘model village’ by Francis Henry Crittall; …
St Athan’s Holiday Village
Seventeen miles west of Cardiff is the small village of St Athan’s, where this derelict village remains off of an unassuming country road. The idea …
Dunton Plotlands Ruins
The plotlands was an area of natural land available for rent/purchase as holiday spots, popular with Londoners who wanted to escape to the countryside. No …
Millennium Mills
Many comprehensive histories of the mills have been written online, so here is just a very brief overview of their past, present, and future. The …
Cooling Radio Station
As the world entered the 20th Century, technology was advancing at a rapid rate and communication between the UK and America was already wired with …
The Crowstone & ‘Hard Paths’
A few metres out into the river at Chalkwell Beach lies a peculiar obelisk stranded in the water. From the shore, it looks like a …
Tilbury-Gravesend Ferry & Old Terminal
On a sunny, yet brisk, weekend the BTP boys decided to head to Tilbury to catch the ferry over to Gravesend with guests Michael Clark and …
Canvey Old Cinema & Bingohall
The cinema was open every day of the week except Wednesday’s and even showed films for children on Saturdays. The building survived the Second World …
The King Canute Pub
The King Canute pub is situated in Canvey village, and has been there in some form since roughly 1867, around the era when Canvey village was …
Canvey’s Faux Dutch Cottages
Built as a nod to Canvey’s Dutch heritage and the two remaining cottages from the 17th Century, 1930s’ pioneer Lt. Cpl. Fielder built three houses …
The Prittle Brook
Map showing rough path of the discernible Prittle Brook & sections explored The Prittle Brook is a tributary of the River Roach spanning down through …
Benfleet Sewage Works Ruin
These peculiar concrete remains are located in the wooden area west of the current sewage works, just north of the waterline. We came across the …
Thundersley Glen
Thundersley Glen is great example of how even the most seemingly natural spaces have a history all of their own; and how this changed the …
The Benfleet Devil Steps
The steps in Summer 1961 by Harry Emery, and Winter 2010 by Eileen Gamble: Steeped in ghastly rumour, these concrete steps could have been built …
Chalkwell Sun Shelters
The coastline surrounding Southend from Chalkwell to Thorpe Bay has been a tourist hotspot for people; often urban residents from London, to enjoy the sea …