At Beyond the Point we love a challenge and we’re embarking on what might be our most ambitious yet. We’ve set ourselves the task of documenting every remaining ‘lunatic’ asylum building that remains in the UK. County asylums were psychiatric hospitals built in the 19th and early 20th centuries, emerging from revolutionary Victorian laws making…
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Liam and I have not long returned from Scotland where we have been exploring a variety of remains around Glasgow and Edinburgh. From several asylums and hospitals to a training school for priests, we’ve taken a look around some incredible places and have taken around 2,000 photos combined. Below is a little preview of what…
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We have some exciting news to announce today. We are finally unveiling our upcoming Abandoned Wales video series, which will be starting next weekend and will run into the new year. The video below serves as an introduction to the five videos and the background behind how they came to be. Liam has been filming…
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Hello and welcome to our brand new Beyond the Point website! Over the past year we’ve spent a frankly insane amount of time building this new website and copying over the hundreds of articles and thousands of photos – 5,500 so far! To mark ten years of BTP we wanted to upgrade the site and…
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It is easy to forget the horrors of war, and somehow believe that passing time creates a sort of ‘distance’ between our realities of today and the terrible realities faced in times of conflict. As we experience the present right now, many individuals just like us experienced the present whilst at war, preparing for war,…
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