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I posted photos of these cottages back in 2007. I think since then, the developer was quoted in the local paper as saying he wanted to demolish them to build a car park. About a week before I took this photo in September, there was development application notice on them, to be demolished. I don't know what the result was, but I think it's just matter of time either way.



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A couple of weeks later, the cover over one window had partly fallen down.

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I took these last week.
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Going back to Nile to look at a few things, before moving onto Richmond.

The first being the old hotel.


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If you happen to have a spare $7 million hanging around, here's a property for you.

Although there's no photos of the actual site. Have to rectify that.

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Might as well cross post this to my LJ

Digging through old photos These are from Royal Derwent in New Norfolk. I assume it's been posted before, but it is an interesting site (this is where children who didn't do what they were told got sent Willow Court the yellowish, mostly single storey building is the oldest mental asylum oniits original site, the first purpose built mental health facility in the country blah blah blah)

I'd just bought my camera, about 2 days before. We were down for a work conference, which was on the site. We're driving around the site trying to find where to go, where to park and it's raining. All around are these beautiful old buildings with boarded up windows and my camera is sitting beside me... but we had to register for the conference and sit through welcome speeches. I wasn't really listening. I was staring through the window at the wet tree and thinking about taking photos. The rain eased off, the speakers left, the annual general meeting started. That was it. I went outside.

(Of course, being a new camera, it only had disposable batteries in it & the 16 Mb memory card that came with it. And obviously I hadn't worked out how to focus properly etc. The next morning, I managed to break the camera so the focus was absolutely screwed, so I'm lucky to have these photos.)
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