#History

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🏥Standish Hospital (Gloucestershire, England) This abandoned hospital had an impressive collection of peeling paint!

Some history. Once a 16th-century country house, Standish Hospital evolved through major medical eras. It treated 2,000 soldiers during WWI and later became a TB sanatorium.

After 1947, it served the NHS as a specialist chest hospital before closing in 2004.

It was demolished a few years ago.

An abandoned hospital room features light blue walls and a ceiling with severe peeling paint, much of it scattered across the floor.
An abandoned hospital room features extensive peeling yellow paint on walls and ceiling, with debris on the floor. An X-ray light box is visible.
An abandoned Standish Hospital ward features severely peeling yellow paint on walls and ceiling,
An abandoned hospital room features walls with extensive peeling green paint, covered in dark mold and moss. A white sink sits below a window on the right.

Released 45 years ago

"Punks Not Dead" is The Exploited's first studio album and features the title track of the same name.

Exploited - Punks Not Dead - (Live at Carlisle City Hall, UK, 1983)

43 years ago today
Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and a punk from the audience at Rollerworks, Chatsworth, California, April 2, 1983.

📸 Linda Aronow

Btw - > Minor Threat and Suicidal Tendencies on one stage 🤩

45 years ago
Punks Not Dead is the first studio album by the Scottish punk rock band The Exploited, released in April 1981.

The Exploited's song "Punks Not Dead" has symbolic significance for the punk movement

49 years ago today
"Marquee Moon" is a song by American rock band Television, recorded for their 1977 debut album of the same name and released as single April 1, 1977.

Released 47 years ago
It's Alive is the first live album by the American punk band the Ramones.

It was recorded at the Rainbow Theatre, London, on December 31, 1977 and January 01, 1978, and released in April 1979

🔥Our history, going up in flames! Fires are destroying so many of our historical Victorian mills. Big Mill in Leek and Middleton Mill in Rochdale are this weekend's casualties.

Dalton Mills in is another sad example. I photographed this wonderful historical space a few years ago. After a "mysterious" fires, the mill has collapsed, leaving only the facade.

An abandoned industrial interior features mossy brick walls, a decaying roof, and a prominent green door. The door reads "DESIGNS ON YOU," surrounded by debris on the floor.
A long, empty mill interior features a row of red cast-iron columns and beams forming a tunnel. Wooden floors lead to a distant light, flanked by windows and worn walls.
An abandoned room with peeling, distressed walls, large windows, and an open wooden door revealing a yellow hallway. The word "EXIT" is painted in red above the door.
An abandoned room with a wooden floor, slatted ceiling, and arched windows, lit by natural light. A wooden hand truck stands on the right.

Route 666 (now mostly renumbered 491) was an American highway that wound through Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. Due to the associations of 666 with the Antichrist, the route was rumoured to be cursed. The road was said to be haunted by a phantom 1930s car that forced drivers off the road, a demonic smoke-and-fire-belching truck, and skin walkers, dangerous creatures from Navajo myth. There were also accounts of a ghostly female hitchhiker and UFOS, which allegedly created timeslips - meaning drivers could disappear then reappear miles down the road not knowing what had happened to them. Much of the road's mythology might have come about thanks to its high accident rate - its renumbering in 2003 coincided with safety improvements.

Two signs attached to a lamppost next to a busy road beneath a dark, cloudy sky. One reads '491' and the other 'Former 666'.