This building was on the same site as this one:
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=66918
The building was at the back of the site and from a distance looked like any other trashed 1950's ex-council yard concrete pre-fab, which I wouldnt normally bother with! I had a look anyway and it was as I thought- wrecked (the sort of place that ends up in the pit 'o despair)! I was putting the camera away when I noticed an engraving in one of the walls, upon looking closer I realised what it was and asked myself...WTF?
Notice the engravings in the walls...
The blocks are First World War military headstones
I started thinking all sorts of things, mainly disgust at the thought of these memorials being used in such a way
I have since been in contact with a mate who is an expert on researching all things do to with military history and he traced the names on some of the headstones, thankfully he found the people are all buried in France.
Therefore we could only imagine that these stones were either flawed when they were made and rejected or were damaged at some point and replaced.
Not a building material you see everyday!
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=66918
The building was at the back of the site and from a distance looked like any other trashed 1950's ex-council yard concrete pre-fab, which I wouldnt normally bother with! I had a look anyway and it was as I thought- wrecked (the sort of place that ends up in the pit 'o despair)! I was putting the camera away when I noticed an engraving in one of the walls, upon looking closer I realised what it was and asked myself...WTF?
Notice the engravings in the walls...
The blocks are First World War military headstones
I started thinking all sorts of things, mainly disgust at the thought of these memorials being used in such a way
I have since been in contact with a mate who is an expert on researching all things do to with military history and he traced the names on some of the headstones, thankfully he found the people are all buried in France.
Therefore we could only imagine that these stones were either flawed when they were made and rejected or were damaged at some point and replaced.
Not a building material you see everyday!