Craco, Italy

Why when we have a huge housing shortage do councils not even think that the main part of the structure is there, why don't they refurbish them into flats at affordable rents instead of letting them rot.  Where I live a beautiful Georgian building was once a college, they closed the college and left it to decay until some one did them a favour and burnt it to the ground.  The council were given so many hundred thousand pounds to landscape the area but the money went to a different area miles away to help with the landscaping of a park which already had a large budget.  These are the people who represent you and I.  What a waste !

With all these abandoned asylums it is no wonder there are so many asylum seekers entering the country. Ha,Ha

The people of Oradour-sur-glane were massacred because some german soldiers were killed in an ambush by free french freedom fighters.

The SS entered the village and as said put all the women and children in the church, lined all the men up and shot them.

They did not gas and shoot the women and children as reported here.  They threw hand grenades through the windows and set fire to the church. They then set fire to the rest of the village by using explosives and flame throwers.

 

I do wish these reporters would read up on their history properly before they report things.

Abandoned funfairs are always scary looking. I must have seen too many episodes of Scooby Doo !

A prime location for implimenting the government housing plans,( affordable )? How do they decide what the figure will be, it is only affordable, if you can afford it !

This is just as sad as the villages of Tottington, Stanford, Sturston, Langford, Buckenham Tofts and West Tofts in Norfolk which were evacuated in 1942 when the Stanford Battle Area was created. The residents were promised they could return after the war, but here we are 70 years later and its still a MOD training area (now called STANTA) see the Stanford Battle Area entry on Wikipedia for more info

An  old Uncle was a peacekeeper in Cyprus when the troubles were on there , he always said it was another forgotten war . A few years ago a local car dealer sued for his vehicles back , and made a small fortune selling them as new but classic cars . What a waste a nice place abandoned , just for politics .

I visited Oradour last june. It was a very moving experience and a very full day. The day I visited, there were a lot of visitors from many countries but when you walked round the place, you didn't see anyone talking to each other. 

Westpark Asylum is also on the list of Britain's most haunted buildings.

 

Imber is an uninhabited village in part of the British Army's Training grounds on the Salisbury Plain ,Wiltshire,, England. IMBER is situated in an isolated area of the Plain, about 2.5 miles (4 km) west of the A360 and is now accessible only by military tracks. The entire civilian population was evicted in 1943 to provide an exercise area for American troops preparing for D-Day during the WWII. After the war villagers were not allowed to return to their homes. The village, which is still classed as an urban entity, remains under the control of the MOD. despite many.many  attempts by former residents to return to their farms and homes.

. Non-military access is limited to several open days a year.....???????...