Glen o' Dee, Banchory - August 2012

The original building was built in 1900 and started its life as Nordrach on Dee Hospital, a sanctuary for tuberculosis patients. When TB died down it served as a luxury hotel (when it became "Glen O' Dee"), but was taken over during the war to serve as a billet for troops. It reprised its role in contagious diseases when the typhoid epidemic hit nearby Aberdeen in the 1960s, but its last use was as a residential home for the elderly. The original building closed in 1998, when a new purpose built building was built on the same site.

  

 

Polphail Village - Sept 2012

The small abandoned village called Polphail was built during the early 1970s to provide accommodation for up to 500 workers at a nearby oil platform construction yard in Portavadie.  Unfortunately the yard was never completed  and the village then lay dorment having never been occupied.

There have been development plans brought to thetable including demolishing the site for a new marina, however due this was abandoned due to bats roosting there, although I never saw any!

Rob Roy Caravan Park

Rob Roy Caravan Park has been a local attraction to explorers around Aberdeenshire for a while, the site consists of approximately 100 static and mobile caravans left lying to rot away.  The site is regularly maintained by the owner who tends to the cutting of the grass and trimming of the vast amount of hedges and trees around the site.

My first visit was in the dead of night, to say its spooky is an understatement, many of the caravans are in serious disrepair, but thankfully not completely trashed and ransacked.

Enjoy!