Saturday 7 July 2007


Its been a while...


I had a plan to publish a picture of the day, thats every day but social domestic and business stuff has taken front of house.
This is an old pic taken inside an abandoned Crofters cottage in the highlands, apart from part of the roof having fallen in its all intact inside, even a few bits of furniture left behind, and a really fantastic old cooker/fire, its great that its not been ransacked (yet!) but that seems to be the way things are in this part of the world.
Reminds me of a talk I went to and the photographers book I have on Montanna, its called Ghosts in the Wilderness and its about all these fantastic old 60's Timber houses that were just left by their occupants back in the 70's, they left furniture, telephones, calenders on the wall and sometimes their cars and appart from dust and decay they are still preserved due to the dry climate.

1 comment:

Norma Murray said...

Very nostalgic. There are crofts in Caithness that have been left just as you describe. They are bought up and the farmer builds a modern house and the old houses just retun back to the earth. Mind you with no dampcourse, an earth floor and bucket sanitation I know where I'd rather live.