Exploring the abandoned, derelict and forgotten of Adelaide, South Australia and beyond
We don’t need no education We don’t need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave them kids alone Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone! All in all it’s just another brick in the wall. All in all you’re just another brick in the wall. Once a place of higher learning, Croydon […]
Read More Urban Exploration – We don’t need no educationFrom the early 1950s, the Arizona Cactus Ranch delighted holidaymakers on the long trip from Adelaide to the Yorke Peninsula. Established in 1952, the Arizona Cactus Ranch was the result of one man’s passion inspired by a visit to the USA – an oasis of hundreds of varieties of cacti and succulent. The dry arid land […]
Read More Urban Exploration – The Cactus RanchThere is something romantic about old movie theatres. Something beyond the cosmetics of dated curtains, faded carpeting and uncomfortable seating. Sure, there’s a feeling of nostalgia and history. But it’s more than that. I can’t help but wonder at how many new romances blossomed in the darkened auditorium? How many dreams were born here? How many heroes lived and […]
Read More Urban Exploration – The Last Picture ShowOn the outskirts of Port Pirie sits a small train graveyard. Several train carriages in varying states of disrepair lay rotting in the arid landscape. Mostly rusting hulks stripped of their internal features and vandalised beyond repair. Various car and truck bodies also adorn the area creating a photographers paradise. How or why these carriages […]
Read More Urban Exploration: Port Pirie Train GraveyardAll things must die. The inevitability that we all face is true of buildings and places as much as it is people. Nowhere does that hit home more than within abandoned medical facilities such as aged care homes. These places of care and love are also places of pain and deep sorrow. Often, people end […]
Read More Urban Exploration – God’s Waiting RoomTwenty years ago, one was able to walk from Pulteney Street to Gawler Place without seeing daylight by entering Renaissance Arcade in The Mansions building, heading down the escalator into the basement of John Martins, into the food court of The Gallerie Arcade and then up the stairs into Gawler Place. Of course, this all […]
Read More Urban Exploration – Adelaide’s Forgotten Arcade: The GallerieFor 115 years the Adelaide Central Market tower has stood unused. An integral feature of the Adelaide Central Market design, the tower has no documented record of use. If you live in Adelaide, you will likely have passed this building hundreds of times. But did you ever look up and wonder about the tower? Rumour […]
Read More Urban Exploration – Adelaide Central Market TowerFairyland. Most Adelaide people have some memory of it. If you spent your childhood in Adelaide in the ’70s and ‘80s, then there’s a pretty good chance you visited Fairyland Village in Lobethal at least once. Fairyland opened in 1973 – the brainchild of a German family who wanted to recreate something similar to parks […]
Read More Urban Exploration – Fairyland VillageUrban Exploration: Adelaide’s abandoned Chapman’s factory – a former abattoir/slaughterhouse and bacon factory.
Read More Urban Exploration: Exploring The Chapmans FactoryFor a long time, this was my white whale – the one building that eluded me. Hemmed in on two sides by modern office towers, boarded up at the front whilst also fronting a busy city street, and shuttered windows to the side fronting a side street. All these factors conspired to render this building […]
Read More Urban Exploration: Darling Building.
AUTOPSY OF ADELAIDE 