Thread: Abandoned Places

Just like this MCFC deserted

on a far smaller, local scale

this hotel was never completed - pic shows maybe a quarter of the whole building, a few hundred m off Sukhumvit Rd/Highway 3 heading south from Chanthaburi and just outside the entrance to Namtok Phlio National Park.
Slowly being overcome by nature.

It looks spooky already. Do you know why it was never completed?

Deserted Wembley - Well the Man U end.

Originally Posted by natalie8

It looks spooky already. Do you know why it was never completed?

We asked the men on the gate - the answer was 'money' as in 'no money' but they didn't know any more, or how long since it was abandoned.
At a wild guess looking at the place maybe 10yrs? Despite the good location on #3 on the way to/from Trat & Koh Chang, entry to National park (Chanthaburi - Namtok Phlio National Park) etc it looks huge and hard to see how it was ever going to succeed.
21km from home will ask around. i lke to know these things!

Thanks, genghis. You sound like me, I have to know the whole story.

Originally Posted by Bogon

No prizes for guessing where this beauty stands. Small hint. You can see it in Bangkok if you're down by the river. Here's a link if you want some more info................ http://www.6000times.com/2010/04/ban...craper_24.html

Hi Bogan. I lived very close to that big bastard for over 8 years and have had many a conversation about it with Thai and farang alike. I have only ever seen it from the outside and a glance of the inside ground level from the entrance on Chaeroen Krung road. Thanks for the link, was most interesting. They seem to give parts of the building a lick of paint every few years. It always amazes me that no one has bought and finished it, and now that I have had a glimpse inside it amazes me even more. I would love to know more about the structural, financial and legal aspects of the site.

If people are interested in this type of thing then this video will blow you away. Utterly amazing!

^ No video (Thailand)
The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Originally Posted by Bogon

No prizes for guessing where this beauty stands. Small hint. You can see it in Bangkok if you're down by the river. Here's a link if you want some more info................ http://www.6000times.com/2010/04/ban...craper_24.html

Hi Bogan. I lived very close to that big bastard for over 8 years and have had many a conversation about it with Thai and farang alike. I have only ever seen it from the outside and a glance of the inside ground level from the entrance on Chaeroen Krung road. Thanks for the link, was most interesting. They seem to give parts of the building a lick of paint every few years. It always amazes me that no one has bought and finished it, and now that I have had a glimpse inside it amazes me even more. I would love to know more about the structural, financial and legal aspects of the site.

I get Page Not found. :-(

I'll check out that video later on. Thanks, EN.

Originally Posted by genghis61

^ No video (Thailand) The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

Download this and you can watch anything. Tor Project: Anonymity Online

On outskirts of Chanthaburi city, apparently abandoned 1997

One of the UK Photography magazines did a great spread about a year ago inside abandoned Bangkok buildings.

Some cool shots.

Does anyone know the story of the two towers that are on the banks of the Bang Pakong River very close to the Bang Na Trat highway as you cross from Samut Prakarn into Chonburi.

There are two pristine tower blocks that have clearly never been occupied, you can see straight through the glass doored living rooms. There is also a housing complex around the base of the 2 towers that looks equally as deserted though it's hard to see from the level I see it (these Ferraris are too low to the ground for a walled highway).

Bokor Hill Station (in Khmer កស្ថានីយភ្នំបូកគោ Kosthany Phnom Bokor) is an abandoned French town in Preah Monivong National Park. Construction started in 1921 on Dâmrei Mountains, about 20 km as the crow flies (42 km by the road) West from the town of Kampot, southern Cambodia.
The town was built as a resort by the colonial French settlers to offer an escape from the heat, humidity and general insalubrity of Phnom Penh[1]. Nine hundred lives were lost in nine months during the construction of the resort in this remote mountain location.[2]
The centrepiece of the resort was the grand Bokor Palace Hotel & Casino, complemented by shops, a post office, a church and the Royal Apartments. It is also an important cultural site, showing how the colonial settlers spent their free time.
Bokor Hill was abandoned first by the French in late 1940s, during the First Indochina War, because of local insurrections guided by the Khmer Issarak, and then for good in 1972, as Khmer Rouge took over the area. During the Vietnamese invasion in 1979, Khmer Rouge entrenched themselves and held on tightly for months. In earlier 1990s Bokor Hill was still one of the last strongholds of Khmer Rouge.


more pics

This blog from March 2011 suggests the buildings are to be demolished to be replaced by a casino.

^^Passed by there by many times driving and always thought the same.

Originally Posted by Neo

The Independance Hotel, dating back to the 1920's I think, that was derelict and has been renovated.

http://www.sihanoukvilleonline.com/f...tion=printpage

This is a very interesting thread and I did a search for buildings in the UK.
I found a fantastic site with high quality photos, there are just so many of them I should just post the link. As you scroll down the set of pictures be sure to go to the link at the bottom as it takes you further into the building. There's also a good write up of each site, a lot of them are asylums dating from the 19th century that were in use up until the 1990's when care in the community became the norm.
Anyway a great resource.. Abandoned Britain - Photographing Ruins click on 'photographic projects' or at the bottom of the page there is a link to another project of his of abandoned industrial buildings.

And did those feet in ancient times.................

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2if3lg1dm-...se-2-small.jpg

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Originally Posted by genghis61

Bokor Hill Station (in Khmer កស្ថានីយភ្នំបូកគោ Kosthany Phnom Bokor) is an abandoned French town in Preah Monivong National Park. Construction started in 1921 on Dâmrei Mountains, about 20 km as the crow flies (42 km by the road) West from the town of Kampot, southern Cambodia.
The town was built as a resort by the colonial French settlers to offer an escape from the heat, humidity and general insalubrity of Phnom Penh[1]. Nine hundred lives were lost in nine months during the construction of the resort in this remote mountain location.[2]
The centrepiece of the resort was the grand Bokor Palace Hotel & Casino, complemented by shops, a post office, a church and the Royal Apartments. It is also an important cultural site, showing how the colonial settlers spent their free time.
Bokor Hill was abandoned first by the French in late 1940s, during the First Indochina War, because of local insurrections guided by the Khmer Issarak, and then for good in 1972, as Khmer Rouge took over the area. During the Vietnamese invasion in 1979, Khmer Rouge entrenched themselves and held on tightly for months. In earlier 1990s Bokor Hill was still one of the last strongholds of Khmer Rouge.

Spooky looking place.
I watched a thriller a while back shot on this location.

Originally Posted by pescator

Spooky looking place. I watched a thriller a while back shot on this location.

The end of City of Ghosts was filmed there. A movie which an Ex-Teakdorian played an extra in.

Thank you, English Noodles.

That was the one!

I never at any point noticed references to the actual name of this place in the credits, I just vividly recall the look of this spooky building.

Originally Posted by pescator

Thank you, English Noodles.

That was the one!

I never at any point noticed references to the actual name of this place in the credits, I just vividly recall the look of this spooky building.

I saw a Korean horror movie filmed here in it's entirety. I will find the name and post it here.
Hiya Kricket Vin, hope you found your way here.
Krok