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Dump truck burned in the Atlas fire on Soda Canyon Road in Napa County, CA. Photographed with a Leica IIIc using a Summitar 5cm f/2 lens. The film is Ilford Pan-F 50+ developed in Caffenol C-H (rs).
Highway 17
Agawa Bay
Lake Superior Provincial Park
Inside the southern boundary of Lake Superior Provincial Park, at Agawa Bay, lies the abandoned and destroyed Northern Auto (Agawa) Service Center.
The Restaurant/Garage/Store was destroyed by fire in April 2009.
Taken in a burned out building in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.
I wish I knew the history of what's been going on in the building. It looks like it could have been a fire, but why the portalets, why the inside art and on and on?
Back of Circle; Roof Void; Both Sides of Pros Arch; Fly Tower of Alhambra Theatre, Morecambe
The Alhambra is a theatre situated on the West End promenade in the English seaside resort of Morecambe, Lancashire. Opened in 1901 as the Alhambra Palace, it took its name, though not its style, from the famous Moorish original in Granada, Spain. The building was in continuous use, with a range of entertainment and social uses, until 1970 when a fire gutted the interior. Following extensive refurbishment the theatre reopened in 1973 as The Inn on the Bay before renaming itself The Carleton Club, becoming a major events venue and one of the great Northern soul dance clubs. After closing in 2016, it reopened it the same year as a multi-purpose venue with capacity up to 1,100. The theatre was the location where Laurence Olivier shot his iconic 1960 film version of John Osborne’s The Entertainer.
History
The Alhambra is the most significant surviving example of Morecambe's West End heritage. Though diminished after the fire of 1970 by the loss of its elaborate Dutch gable and distinctive sun-burner turret, the edifice still dominates and enhances an elegant Victorian curve of promenade. It was built on the site of the old West End Market, which was demolished for this purpose, and the ground floor of the new building was designed as a replacement covered market space. Only the original market sign survived, moved to back of the building above the new market’s rear entrance. Although postcards with exterior views of the Alhambra Palace are plentiful, there are very few images of its interior. Fortunately, the national press published detailed descriptions at the time.
From conception and design to financing and management the Alhambra Palace, which opened on April 4, 1901, was entirely a local effort, conceived by developers John Gardner and John Scott and young architect Herbert Howarth, all of whom lived near by. John Edmondson was the experienced local building contractor who also installed the electric lighting in the theatre. He was also responsible for most of Morecambe’s great buildings, including the surviving 1900 Park Hotel up Regent Road from the Alhambra.
For the first few years of their existence, Gardner managed the Alhambra and the Park Hotel, both integral to the partners’ redevelopment of the West End's 1877 Summer Gardens whose 30 acres, including a massive pavilion, had proved unprofitable and located too far from the sea. They built the Park Hotel, Regent Park and surrounding houses on that site and linked them with the then ultra-modern Alhambra Palace on its prime seafront location
Theatre for the West End
Topping a special variety bill, Chung Ling Soo, destined to be hailed as one of the world's greatest magicians, topped the Alhambra opening night after the 1901 opening ceremony. Opposite the Alhambra stood the West End Pier with a theatre at the end. However this burnt down in 1917 and the pier itself was demolished in 1978 after extensive storm damage. For most of the 20th century the theatre featured refreshment bars and a popular restaurant. In addition, the Alhambra managers spotlit what was in vogue – variety, films and summer shows – without losing its reputation as a home for amateur, social and community needs.
The ground floor of the theatre was designed to be used for retail purposes and when it first opened comprised a market, shops, restaurant and photographer. By 1910 the venue was also licensed as a cinema and regularly screened films in between live theatre and variety revues. In the 1920s it became the Astoria Super Cinema but continued to host other events. It closed as a cinema during World War II when it was requisitioned for use in the war effort, and reopened in 1946.
The venue was closed in 1970, when a projector caught fire in the upper tiers and the entire wood structure of the interior collapsed, although the flames did not spread to the large space of fly tower. The walls and main structure were unaffected by the internal damage, and so, after basic remodelling inside (the suspended ceilings still conceal a cavernous balcony and roof space above), it reopened as the Carleton Club, a huge 'black box' with multi-bars suited to dance and social events. Various restaurants also occupied the front part of the original theatre floor, where ceiling to floor bay windows directly look out on Morecambe Bay.
The club's fortunes faded at exactly the same time that Morecambe's West End became a particular area of major social deprivation as a result of the whole resort's economy collapsing in the 1980s and 1990s. Along with other large buildings in the town such as the iconic Midland Hotel and top leisure park Frontierland at the edge of the West End, the Carleton/Alhambra fell into disuse with only a handful of events put on per year and it finally closed in 2016.
The Alhambra today
The same year the building was rescued by local developer Ian Bond who reopened it as an entertainment, conference and community-purpose venue. He also brought new tenants to the shops at street level (the central market space was already occupied by the region's largest angling store Gerry's Fishing). The venue is currently run by volunteers who are part of the wave of local networks focused on turning around the town's fortunes since the 2000s. In 2019 the charitable company Morecambe Alhambra Theatre Trust was created to formally run the venue along with the established Friends of the Alhambra.
Renaming itself the Alhambra once more, the theatre has designed its multi-community purpose to complement the other nearby renovations or developments along the seafront: the Midland Hotel, the new Promenade wave deflection wall (2019), the similarly renovated Morecambe Winter Gardens theatre, and the planned £80 million Eden Project North by the Midland.
Since 2016, a growing number of cultural events central to the North West of England have found a base at the Alhambra, including Morecambe Punk Festival, steam punk festival A Splendid Day Out and goth club nights Corrosion. The Other National Theatre and the UK Centre of the International Theatre Institute are based at the Alhambra. Morecambe Fringe launched there in 2017 and Hawkwind’s space rock festival Hawkeaster took over the entire venue in 2018 [Wikipedia]
I have been to Brighton a few times, I was a student down the coast in Portsmouth, all of my previous visits were at night. This was the first trip I'd ever made in daylight
This is Dollar General # 2872 at 15490 Warwick Blvd in Newport News, VA.
This store suffered a major fire on January 8th, 2023. I'm not sure if the store will reopen, or if it'll reopen in its existing building.
I grew up in Big Tujunga Canyon in the Angeles National Forest down in Los Angeles. When I was a kid I remember a massive wild fire came through the canyon in 1975. It scorched our property, but my dad saved the house by staying behind to fight the fire with my grandfather who was a Los Angeles County firefighter.
It had been 34 years since that fire when the Station Fire swept through Big Tujunga Canyon earlier this Fall. Once again my dad chose to ignore the evacuation orders and stayed behind to defend the property.
The fire scorched most of the property that my parents still live on today. They lost a few vehicles, a trailer and an old storage shed, but my dad fought the fire all by himself with a garden hose and saved the house itself as well as other structures on the property.
The palm tree in front of the house caught on fire several times and my dad kept putting it out. The Christmas tree that we planted in the front yard when we were kids (which had grown to about 50 feet tall) was engulfed in flames at one point and could have easily burned the house down as well.
For a while my dad had some firefighters there helping him. Five firefighters or so from Santa Barbara County. When the fire got too strong though they abandoned my dad's property doing everything they could to get him to leave and evacuate with them, but he stayed and fought.
My grandfather, who is now a retired fire fighter was angry when he heard that the fire fighters had abandoned the property. He thought that they should have stayed and fought the fire with my dad. He told my dad that he should make up a sign that Santa Barbara fire fighters are cowards and put it up on the road above our house. I'm not sure that would go over very well though.
My grandfather helped save the house back in 75 by lighting a bunch of back fires that burned up the hills around our property before the massive blaze actually got there, so when the fire arrived there wasn't much left around the property to burn.
About 40 homes were destroyed all in by the fire up in Big Tujunga Canyon -- mostly all within a few miles of my parents home.
This photo above is of my parent's neighbors house. Their house was burned completely to the ground and this is all that was left of their property, a burnt out shell of a car. That was their house and chimney for their fireplace behind the car.
Further up the canyon in Vogel flats was even worse.
Walking around the mountains of Big Tujunga Canyon it feels like you're walking on the moon. All of the brush completely gone, all of the wildlife gone, nothing but skeletal remains of trees and bushes, yuccas which have started to resprout, and thick undisturbed ash which blows everywhere still.
I spent most of my Thanksgiving visit at my parents photographing the damage of the Station Fire. I shot hundreds of photos of the damage and will upload a lot of them in the weeks and months ahead.
From original Plus-X 4x5 negative, Calumet 4x5 view camera, 165mm Caltar, photographed inside burned-down house.
Following along the banks of the Payette River's South Fork yielded numerous views such as this. The damage from last year's fires can clearly be seen when looking at the trees.
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Collection Name: RG395.2 Missouri State Capitol Commission Photographs
Photographer/Studio: unknown photographer; donated by Jeanne Tucker Gordon
Description: An interior hallway of Missouri's second State Capitol Building is filled with rubble following a fire the night of February 5-6, 1911. One chandelier still hangs.
Coverage: United States – Missouri – Cole County – Jefferson City
Date: February 1911
Rights: public domain
Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives
Image Number: RG395_Series1_01_012F.tif
Institution: Missouri State Archives
The fire damaged remains of the Queen's Hotel Blaenau Ffestiniog.
The hotel caught fire late morning on July 5th, 2025.
Recent reports on BBC Wales indicate that the tenant landlandy is very unhappy due to the fire damaged property being sold by the owners Admiral Taverns to a third party who has not indicated what he intends to do with the building.
She has been rendered both homeless and jobless.
The full story can be read here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqje284nx5go
Sparta, GA (Hancock County). Copyright 2008 D. Nelson
I apologize for posting yet another series of this house just two weeks later but I happened to be in Sparta once again and stopped by to get this in better light. In the meantime, I was able to obtain "some" info:
Pomegranate Hall was built in the 1830s by Judge Nathan Sayre and is located where Elm Street, which runs south from Broad Street, dead-ends on Adams Street. At the time, the house was painted a "monastic brown" which gave it a Mediterranean appearance, and was sitting on several acres of lush land that also contained vineyards.
The house is made of local stone and brick with walls two feet thick. The main (second) floor contained an elaborate entrance hall, two reception rooms on the right and Judge Sayre's extensive library. Features like marble mantles and silver bells and knobs gave it an urban rather than rustic feel. There are many entrances, stairs and cul-de-sacs, and in the back, the house was three stories high. The columns are 24 feet high. Underneath the front porch is another entrance leading into the the brick-floored ground level. The house was generally referred to as a "half house" but it is not clear if it was due to the fact that its entrance was to the side rather than at the center, or if it shared materials such as shutters and doors with the Sayre home in Newark, NJ.
A guest at the house in 1839 described her upstairs room as "delightfully situated; our windows attracted all the breezes and commanded imposing and beautiful views of the whole town and surrounding country".
On an interesting side note, Nathan Sayre was one of few people of his time who challenged the racial color code. Although he never married, he had several children with one of his slave women and later lived with Susan Hunt, who was herself a mixture of Cherokee, African, and white. They raised their three children here at Pomegranate Hall. In his library, Sayre kept books that argued AGAINST the common belief that racial "amalgamation" would inevitably produce degenerate and physically inferior children. It is believed that the complicated layout of the house was to support the equally complicated family dynamics.
After Judge Sayre's death in 1853, the house was bought by the Simpson family who owned it when diarist Frances Andrews stayed here shortly after Sherman had burned down everything a few miles south. [So as I guessed right when I said in my earlier post, "Sherman didn't do that one"]. The house then went to Judge Seaborn Reese who later replaced Alexander H. Stephens as congressman.
In 1963, the widow of Oliver Macy (of the Macy's Department Store family) moved in and lived here until she died in the fall of 1992 (!). The next owner was Emily K. Hair, widow of the late historian Dr. William Ivy Hair. I am not sure who owns it now.
One online source states that the house burned in 1990 but the book I am consulting was published in 1996 and makes no mention of a fire. Obviously, Mrs. Oliver Macy was still in the house in 1990. Also, the damage looks much more recent, and I can not imagine that it would have been left exposed to the elements for 18 years.
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Once voted Australia's best beach, the beautiful sand dunes which line Vivonne Bay will take many years to recover from the fires which incredibly burnt almost to the water's edge creating these astonishing post apocalyptic landscapes.... and a savage kind of beauty that brings tears to the eyes...
SUV destroyed in the Atlas Fire in Napa County, CA. Photographed with a Leica IIIc using a Summitar 5cm f/2 lens. The film is Ilford Pan-F 50+ developed in Caffenol C-H (rs).
Patio furniture burned in the 2017 Napa County wildfire. Photographed with a Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 531/2 6x9 camera. The film is Ilford Delta 100 developed in Beerenol (Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer).
Damage caused by the Washington Fire near Markleeville California. The fire started on 6-19-2015 and burned 17,790 Acres. The cause was attributed to lightning.
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The October 2013 bushfires in NSW Australia were horrendous, but the farm at Mt Irvine miraculously escaped destruction.
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Our farmhouse was saved with only few minutes to spare after the fires ripped through the surrounding bushland and paddocks. At the stage the fire brigade (with five trucks) arrived, fires had got to within 10 meters of the house. We were very, very, lucky.
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Thank heaven for the Rural Fire Service of NSW, and for the assistance from our immediate neighbours whose quick thinking and care saved the house.
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Other residents were not so lucky, tragically with 2 adjacent farmhouses and other property being totally destroyed.
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The air was thick with the aroma of smouldering wood as we travelled along the highway, small pockets of wispy smoke plumes still rising up from areas of devastated forest. The fires were over, but not done with destruction and mayhem just yet.....
This photograph was taken at an altitude of Seven hundred and ten metres, at 10:07am on Sunday 15th May 2016 off the Alaska Highway then the Stewart-Cassiar highway 37 between Good Hope Lake and Upper Liard in British Columbia, Canada.
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I took these photos on the morning of September 19th of some of the damage from the San Bruno PG&E pipeline explosion. As of this morning, most of the disaster area is still heavily guarded by various law enforcement agencies.
More from wikipedia.
The 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred at 6:11 p.m. PDT on September 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California, when a 30 inch steel natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded in flames.
The loud roar and shaking led some residents of the area, first responders, and news media to initially believe that it was an earthquake or that a large airplane from nearby San Francisco International Airport had crashed. It took crews nearly an hour to determine it was a gas pipeline explosion.[
Reports about the number of deaths are conflicting. According to the San Bruno chief of police seven were dead and six were missing as of Saturday September 11, but the coroner's office questioned the information from the police department, stating only four deaths were confirmed. Many were hospitalized with injuries. 37 homes were destroyed by the blaze, with about 8 badly damaged. USGS registered the explosion and resulting shock wave as a magnitude 1.1 earthquake. Eye witnesses reported the initial blast "had a wall of fire more than 1000 feet high".
Seen Here Sat Withdrawn At Arriva Thurmastons Depot After Suffering A Rear End Fire Is Arriva Midlands VDL SB200 Wright Pulsar 2 Fleet Number 3801 MX13ANR
Early in 2018 the fire brigade responded to reports of a fire in Donnybrook’s Herbert Park but but park management were relieved that it was a disused shelter rather than the famous bandstand that was set alight by vandals.
The bandstand, which was not damaged, featured in the video for Phil Lynott’s 1982 hit Old Town.
I did try to photograph the old shelter in 2018 but could not because of anti-social behaviour so I was not surprised to learn that it had been set alight. I do have a photograph from 2014 which I will make available.
Seen Here In Kinchbuses Depot Is Withdrawn Kinchbus Optare Solo M950SL (7 YJ07EFX) Due To A Small Engine Which Took Place On The 11th Of August 2024 Whilst Working The West RushCliffe On Demand Service Also Know As Z4
after driving north on Williams Ave in Portland through blocks of rectangular mid-rise condos, you see this
Taken at the family farm at Mountain Irvine, NSW, Australia, as the October 2013 bushfires were settling down.
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Our farmhouse was saved with only few minutes to spare after the fires ripped through the surrounding bushland and paddocks. At the stage the bush fire brigade arrived (with five trucks), fires had got to within 10 meters of the house. We were very, very, lucky.
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Thank heaven for the Rural Fire Service of NSW, and for the assistance from our immediate neighbours whose quick thinking and care saved the house.
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Other residents were not so lucky, tragically with 2 adjacent farmhouses and other property being totally destroyed.