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Brighton West Pier sunset – photos of the autumnal sun setting over the doomed Victorian pier
Posted on Monday, Sep 28, 2015 | No CommentsI think it’s fair to say that I’m a bit obsessed with the melancholy dereliction of Brighton’s West Pier, a beautiful Victorian pleasure pier which is slowly rusting into the sea. -
![Currently crumbling away in Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn is this row of derelict Second Empire style townhouses, formerly used by naval officers. Named Admiral’s Row, the once-grand buildings formed part of Brooklyn Navy Yard […]](http://www.urban75.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/admirals-row-brooklyn-011-115x115.jpg "The abandoned townhouses of Admiral’s Row, Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York")
The abandoned townhouses of Admiral’s Row, Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York
Posted on Monday, Sep 8, 2014 | No CommentsCurrently crumbling away in Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn is this row of derelict Second Empire style townhouses, formerly used by naval officers. Named Admiral’s Row, the once-grand buildings formed part of Brooklyn Navy Yard […] -
Derelict shops, Toynbee Street, Spitalfields, London E1
Posted on Thursday, Jan 13, 2011 | 5 CommentsLooking unlikely to ever come back from the dead is this block of derelict shops along the east side of Toynbee Street in the Spitalfields district of east London, E1.