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Grossainville - 2015

Infraredd

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If you look at this write up from the Daily Fail

Goussainville: Inside the French ghost town abandoned 40 YEARS AGO | Daily Mail Online

Goussainville looks like a good explore. Since the Tupolev Tu-144 fell out of the sky onto the village it has been

slowly depopulating, or so the article makes out.

However I roll up after a long drive to find more cars than the M25 at 8.30 on a wet Monday morning.

Cars are parked everywhere - not exactly deserted then.

So I find the old mansion house,

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walk up the steps and look in.

Don't know if this has ever happened to anyone else on this forum but I simply couldn't be arsed to climb in.

Crap everywhere and mindless graff over every available and even hard to reach surface.

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Go round the back and was just as nonplussed

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& this is why people have moved on. Approx every 3 minutes..

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So I'm here now might as well look at the rest of the village.

Here's an interesting door of a kind that seems to be repeated many,many times

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Courtyard

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& bookseller

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Just round the corner I got into a rambling smashed up house. Room after wrecked room with discarded clothes & assorted garbage.

Then upstairs I found a photo album of an African family, all in bright colours looking at the camera like startled rabbits.

Why would anyone carry that all the way from Africa to France and leave it on the floor of some shit hole.

I'd had enough. I couldn't take any pictures, the camera never came out of it's bag.

Decay - fine, abject misery - sorry no thanks.................

Rant over.

 
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Well what a past this village has and a tragic one at that.

Cool to see some images of the place and thanks for sharing John (y)

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Must've been a cool place in its day. Despite the state of the place you've grabbed a good set of pics and like you're editing style (y)

 

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I quite like the look of strolling through the town but that mansion looks pretty disappointing. It reminds me of a similar building in the grounds of West Park asylum, I poked my head in and that was it. Cheers for sharing an update on the place (y)

 

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At least you got some nice IR images out of it...every cloud and all that

 

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Lovely shots, thanks for sharing :)

 
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