Cloggo, standing before these scenes, would ponder their workings and fill in the details from the past; whereas I marvel at how time and nature have claimed them since they were abandoned. There is no RIGHT way of looking at them, of course, although his is certainly more informative.
The above are abandoned machinery at the Cocking Limeworks in England while below is one from a set of 117 impressions of a hospital complex in Berlin.
Beelitz-Heilstatten was built in 1898 and used during both world wars.
Polanski filmed parts of his movie The Pianist there.
All photos by Howzey, in Flickr
