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📚 An abandoned Victorian-era library, somewhere in England

#England #Victorian #Library #Abandoned #UrbanExploration #Bookstodon #Lost #Forgotten

Feb 21 at 1:20pmWeb
Show threadTuchowskiFeb 21
@ObsidianUrbex Could be a swimming place... ☺️
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@adipoeserPursch
Haha it does look a lot like some other UK polls I know 🤣
Show threadChris HessertFeb 21

@ObsidianUrbex

Would like to know the back story: why was it abandoned?

Show threadObsidian Urbex PhotographyFeb 22
@chessert
Of course! More photos and info on the dedicated website post - https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/education/victorian-british-library-england/
Victorian British Library, England

This abandoned Victorian British Library has been left to decay for over twenty years. It was one of the first public libraries in this city.

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Show threadlucaFeb 21
@ObsidianUrbex This is so interesting. I've always loved to explore places crystallized in some moment of the past, either far or relatively recent.
Show threadNessFeb 21
@ObsidianUrbex That is beautiful and I want to live in it.
Show threadObsidian Urbex PhotographyFeb 22
@EscGoat
💙
Show threadKen McLeodFeb 21
@ObsidianUrbex Who builds a grand vaulted room only to fill in the space with small rooms along a narrow corridor? Probably these were wartime additions when the library got repurposed for something else.
Show threadObsidian Urbex PhotographyFeb 22
@_the_cloud
Those are reading rooms on the ground floor ☺️
Show threadKen McLeodFeb 22
@ObsidianUrbex Those aren't reading rooms, they're crimes against architecture.
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@_the_cloud
They are hideous aren't they! Also meant I couldn't get good shots from the ground floor which bugs me
Show threaddrwoo101Feb 21
@ObsidianUrbex A 19th century swimming pool in Paris has just been renovated - Chateau-Landon
Show threadGraham WardFeb 22
@ObsidianUrbex Is it actually still a library if it doesn't have books?!
Show threadObsidian Urbex PhotographyFeb 22
@edintone
🤣
Show threadMacBalanceFeb 22
@ObsidianUrbex This immediately made me think of a section of the original Bioshock game where there was a catwalk above several rooms where the ‘Little Sisters’ were studied…
Show threadObsidian Urbex PhotographyFeb 22
@MacBalance
Does have a Bioshock feel doesnt it 🤣