![]() ![]() ![]() After WW2 the movies Tokyo Story and The Naked Island reignited interest in Onomichi, so in 1964 the local chamber of commerce and industry had the glorious idea to attract the fun hungry post-war workers with a three-story watchtower, modeled after the castle tower of Hirosaki Castle, but without any historical background. An important trade harbor from the mid-12th to the mid-17th century, the town lost quite a bit of its former glory during the Tokugawa period as international trade was mostly limited to Nagasaki’s Dejima. Heck, I live near Amagasucky and I’ve never been to the castle, not even to take some photos and rant about it.ĥ0 years earlier, a couple hundred kilometers southwest. “Let’s check out the underrated city of Amagasaki, I’ve heard they have an amazing castle there!” is something nobody ever said. The latest of those abominations was erected in 2018/19 – and all it needed was a rich idiot on an ego trip and some local politicians who thought that they can turn an industrial bedroom community into a tourist attraction. Great castle park with amazing moats, but the castle itself is one step away from being some Disney crap – at least they went all in and even included elevators, so it’s one of the few wheelchair accessible castles in Japan. What I dislike with a passion are fake castles built in the 20th century as tourist attractions – the most famous one probably being the one in Osaka. ![]() I loved Japanese castles ever since I watched the mini-series “Shogun” with my dad as a little boy – and of course I’ve been to the most famous ones (Hikone, Himeji, Inuyama, Matsue, and Matsumoto) and then some dozens. In 2016 there were plans to partly demolish and convert the house but in June of that year the empty building was badly damaged by fire.įor more information see is famous for the being the starting point of the Shimanami Kaido, a popular car expressway and bike trail stretching from Honshu to Shikoku across several islands… but abandoned places?! Zed Events used the manor house as a location for their Zombie airsoft but events are no longer run there. In April 2015, a huge cannabis farm containing six hundred plants with an estimated street value of £750,000 was discovered at the former county mansion in an annex at the estate. It became semi-derelict after being bought by a millionaire who died before restoration could take place. The Elusive / ĭuring the Second World War it was used as a military hospital and for some years from 1955 by a charity, now known as Scope, as a residential home for disabled people. The house is recorded on the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It has three storeys and seven bays with a stone plinth and stone bands between the storeys. The house is constructed in a Georgian style in brown brick with stone dressings, and has a slate roof. By 1892 it had been acquired by Sir Gilbert Greenall, later Baron Daresbury. The hall descended in the Heron family until 1850, when it became the property of Samuel Beckett Chadwick. “But more often than not they become victims of arson and they become shells with all of their character gone.” The Elusive / ĭaresbury Hall is a former Georgian country house in the village of Daresbury, Cheshire. Sometimes, as with this place it’s a double edged sword imagine what this place could have been with some love and some money and a lot of restoration. “I love to see what’s left, a hint of how it used to be buried underneath the ransacking. “It was dark and damp sadness with a hint of zombie as this once loved manor house had been turned into an airsoft location. “A friend had mentioned airsoft with zombies as something he had done the year before so after some research and lack of future events I thought I would go and see what was happening with the building,” they said. ![]() The haunting photographs were taken at Daresbury Hall in Cheshire, UK, by an urban explorer known only as The Elusive. Other spooky shots show quarantine signs on heavy metal doors, graffiti warnings about American blondes and midgets and what appears to be blood splattered on the walls. ![]()
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