“It's the end of the summer. It's the end of it all. Those days are gone, it's over now, we're moving on.”

JHQ Rheindahlen, latterly also called the Rheindahlen Military Complex, was a British forces base near Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. JHQ stands for Joint Headquarters and the base has functioned as the main headquarters for the British forces in Germany since being built in the 1950s. It has also served as the Headquarters of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps – home to sixteen nationalities of forces personnel.

The complex was designed to accommodate over 7,000 British and Allied service personnel and a civilian population (mostly German) of about 2,500 for ancillary services: a township approaching a population of 10,000.

Over the last few years JHQ has been slowly closing down, leaving around 450 families at the beginning of 2013. By the end of August 2013 only a handful of people were left to oversee the handover back to the German authorities (BEMA) on 13 December 13

These photographs, part of a large collection, document the gradual process of abandonment and decay that began on the camp over 5 years ago.

For those still remaining ghosts haunt the empty windows and nature has begun to resume ownership after a break of 60 years.