Decay Kids Hoodies

The life cycle of a rose in photographs

All that remains of the West Pier in Brighton. Brighton's West Pier was closed to the public in 1975. Sadly a huge storm in 2002 and two arson attacks in 2003 reduced it to ruins and it has gradually been re-claimed by the sea ever since. It still casts an eerie beauty on the seafront though.

This dying rose looks like the drapes in a elegant ball gown. Part of the Dead Rose Series.

The abandoned settlement at Suisnish - forcible emptied of its population in the Clearances

Car in the Ferris Wheel at the abandoned Lake Shawnee Amusement Park,Lake Shawnee WV

A former church school in Gary WV, it was converted to apartments for local miners,and then abandoned.

The former hotel at Glen Rogers WV, Wyoming County WV. Some of the most dangerous mines in the country were served by Glen Rogers, by the time of the mines final closing in 1960, 160 miners had lost their lives in a series of incidents

Former coal company store,now abandoned,on a snowy day in Boissevain VA

Basement,the Coalwood High School,Coalwood WV

The more or less abandoned Oak Grove Cemetery. Volunteers sometimes come in and clear it,but for such a large cemetery,it's more or less falling to the same fate as the more forgotten family plots.

The former hotel at Glen Rogers WV, Wyoming County WV. Some of the most dangerous mines in the country were served by Glen Rogers, by the time of the mines final closing in 1960, 160 miners had lost their lives in a series of incidents

Abandoned coal tipple near Cucumber WV, McDowell County WV

Third floor classroom in the abandoned school in Keystone WV

The former hotel at Glen Rogers WV, Wyoming County WV. Some of the most dangerous mines in the country were served by Glen Rogers, by the time of the mines final closing in 1960, 160 miners had lost their lives in a series of incidents

Third floor in the abandoned Keystone School, it was last used at all after it closed as a backdrop for scene in the Richard Gere,Edward Norton film Primal Fear,and then finally abandoned again forever. It is VERY hairy to get up there to the third floor,but I love this shot,so,worth it.

Abandoned cafeteria, Gary Middle School Gary WV, McDowell County WV

The fading logo of American Beef Packers is emblazoned on the side of a rusting boxcar.

Decaying Train

Abandoned railway building near Alpoca WV

A derelict barn near Hope End, Essex, UK.

Mixed media/digital composite involving death and rust.

The most ICONIC moment in cinematic history is Slughorn’s eulogy for Aragog. I know, I know the movie is not the same as the books BUT I don’t make the rules here. If you haven’t seen it, even just the one scene, watch it. So farewell Aragog, King of the Arachnids

“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.” Mark Twain

Surprisingly not that treated a shot of the abandoned ferris wheel at the Lake Shawnee abandoned amusement park. Just a bit of backlight,and it decided to do this,and who am I to argue?

View of the abandoned Ferris Wheel at the "haunted" Lake Shawnee park.

Basement steps inside the abandoned Pocahontas Fuel Company building,Boissevain VA

The former hotel at Glen Rogers WV, Wyoming County WV. Some of the most dangerous mines in the country were served by Glen Rogers, by the time of the mines final closing in 1960, 160 miners had lost their lives in a series of incidents

Lagering room. Neuweiler Brewery, also known as Germania Brewery, is a historic brewery complex located at Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The complex was built between 1911 and 1913, and consists of the office building, brew house, stock house, pump house, wash house, chemistry lab building, boiler room, bottling house, garage, fermenting cellar, and smokestack with the name “Neuweiler” on it. The office building is a two-story, brick and granite building. The remaining buildings in the complex are built of brick. The brew house stands six-stories, and has a copper hipped roof with cupola. The stock house is a long, narrow four-story building. The brewery closed in 1968

Sharon Presbyterian Church, Ceres VA, Giles County VA built in 1911, it closed its doors in 2000 due to low membership

The basement inside the abandoned and gutted original company store in Glen Rogers WV, Wyoming County WV. Some of the most dangerous mines in the country were served by Glen Rogers, by the time of the mines final closing in 1960, 160 miners had lost their lives in a series of incidents

Obviously the small abandoned steading on Flat Top Mountain below Pinnacle Rock,did NOT have flushies.

Gravestone in the partially abandoned Oak Grove Cemetery,Bluewell WV

Abandoned church along Rt 19 between Mars Hill and Burnsville NC, Yancey County NC

The remains of an elevator in the basement inside the abandoned and gutted original company store in Glen Rogers WV, Wyoming County WV. Some of the most dangerous mines in the country were served by Glen Rogers, by the time of the mines final closing in 1960, 160 miners had lost their lives in a series of incidents

The former hotel at Glen Rogers WV, Wyoming County WV. Some of the most dangerous mines in the country were served by Glen Rogers, by the time of the mines final closing in 1960, 160 miners had lost their lives in a series of incidents

Second floor landing inside the abandoned Coal Company Store in Boissevain VA