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Galleries for 2005

On this page you will find links to all of my photographic galleries and projects from 2005, an interesting and varied first year of the website. Click on the images to go to the galleries.

DOMESTIC & AGRICULTURAL

Lawns

A pair of Mid-Victorian cottages abandoned before their purchase fifty years ago by the Cranleigh Brick & Tile Co Ltd to make way for chemical and extractive industries. (England - South Surrey; Cranleigh).

INDUSTRY & INFRASTRUCTURE

Pumpsaint & District Agricultural Co-operative Dairy

A derelict dairy factory in Mid Wales. (Wales - Mid Ceredigion; Tregaron).

Deepdene - Southern Railway Wartime Command Centre

From 1938 until the mid 1960s, the Southern Region Railway Network was controlled from a labyrinth of tunnels hidden in shrubbery of a Surrey mansion. This article investigates what remains today. (England - Mid Surrey; Dorking).

HOSPITALITY

The Windmill Inn

A disused Victorian inn, since gutted by arson and now demolished. (England - Mid Surrey; Dorking).

HEALTHCARE & MEDICAL

The Surrey County Lunatic Asylum at Netherne

Gallery and research project centred on a large, partly converted Edwardian 'lunatic asylum' designed by GT Hine and opened in 1909. (England - North Surrey; Hooley).

Dorking General Hospital

A part-disused hospital based on an old Union Workhouse campus, which also includes the badly fire damaged home of the 19th Century intellectual C.G.B. Allen. (England - Mid Surrey; Dorking).

RECREATION

M.V.D.C. Dorking Swimming Baths & Sports Centre

Pictures from the demolition of the old recreation centre in Dorking. (England - Mid Surrey; Dorking).

MILITARY & GOVERNMENTAL

West Bank Fort

A coastal fort built in 1854 but mothballed only a few years later and subsequently used as barracks. Abandoned since the early 20th Century, it is now gradually being buried by advancing sand dunes to the south. (England - South Sussex; Littlehampton).

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