An archive of abandoned places, drains and industry.https://cesspool.uk/en-gbhttps://cesspool.uk/explores/etang-de-beaulieu-pumping-station-saint-cast-france/https://cesspool.uk/explores/etang-de-beaulieu-pumping-station-saint-cast-france/A pumping station on a Breton étang, left to the tide and the weather.Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cesspool.uk/explores/guru-gobind-singh-khalsa-college-chigwell-essex/https://cesspool.uk/explores/guru-gobind-singh-khalsa-college-chigwell-essex/A closed college in Chigwell, its halls and classrooms left as they were.Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cesspool.uk/explores/coulsdon-deep-shelter-digitally-restored-south-london/https://cesspool.uk/explores/coulsdon-deep-shelter-digitally-restored-south-london/A wartime deep shelter dug beneath the grounds of Cane Hill Asylum, cut short by chalk. Photographs digitally stripped of graffiti to show what lies underneath.Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://cesspool.uk/explores/stewartby-brickworks/https://cesspool.uk/explores/stewartby-brickworks/Once the largest brickworks in the world. A photographic series through the chimneys, kilns and machine halls before the last of it came down.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://cesspool.uk/explores/totnes-dairy-crest-milk-factory-totnes-south-devon/https://cesspool.uk/explores/totnes-dairy-crest-milk-factory-totnes-south-devon/A 1930s Cow & Gate creamery built onto the bones of an atmospheric railway pumping station. Silent since 2007, and now a genuinely dangerous ruin.Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://cesspool.uk/explores/brownes-folly-mine/https://cesspool.uk/explores/brownes-folly-mine/A Bath stone mine near Bathford — nineteenth-century workings, wartime storage, miners' graffiti, and the horseshoe bats that now have the run of it.Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://cesspool.uk/explores/river-wandle-culvertdrain-croydon-london/https://cesspool.uk/explores/river-wandle-culvertdrain-croydon-london/The Wandle buried and forgotten under Croydon — a river that once ran through pleasure gardens, now culverted and undocumented.Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://cesspool.uk/explores/balneario-de-azuaje-gran-canaria/https://cesspool.uk/explores/balneario-de-azuaje-gran-canaria/A thermal spa hotel in a Canarian ravine, built on waters people had come to for centuries, abandoned and slowly returning to the gorge.Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT