From sand-filled houses to rusting railway stations and entire ghost towns,abandoned places have a haunting beauty. Richard Happer has travelled the world to find the bestFifteen years ago Richard Happer was staying on a small Scottish island and took a boat out to St Kilda. Forty miles west of North Uist, the St Kilda archipelago is the westernmost point of the Hebrides, and perhaps the remotest place in the UK. Until the 1920s it had a small but resolute population of around 80. By 1930,the island was totally evacuated, rendered uninhabitable by a combination of disease and crop failure. Seeing the abandoned husks of homes sitting abandoned in the grass, and Happer was moved.“I fell in love, he says. “The external world caught up with these remote people and it was too tough for them to live there, so the entire population upped and left. Visiting it was fairly intoxicating. I realised that there were all these places on our doorstep that people didn’t know about.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com