Stockholm Photoblog

Finnboda shipyard: Exploring abandoned places in the middle of the night

It wasn’t really a house, but just designed to look like one from the outside. There wasn’t a single front door, but the entire wall of it was doors to these small compartmented rooms. I imagine they used to store generators or other heavy equipment in these rooms because the whole building was solid concrete and it seemed purpose built for storage rather than living.

Here is a piece of shit latter going up to the second level, but at this point I walked outside and around the cliff facing side of the house to get into the basement.

There’s just a door in the wall with all this crap in front of it I had to stumble over, but inside was a colorful room of artwork.

I couldn’t decide which one of these pics I liked better so I just posted them both 😉

I set my backpack down in this room when posing for the photo, and then totally forgot it existed. I walked around the rest of the night without it, went home, fell asleep, then woke up in the morning not being able to find my waterbottle and realizing my backpack wasn’t there. Then I had to come back here in the rain and it totally sucked.

Facing out the basement door.

 

Now this factory across the street is huge and seems to be in good condition; I’ve made it my next target of investigation. I’ve seen pictures on Flikr of people going inside so it must be accessible. Anyway filing away that adventure for another day :).

 

These next few pics are from the outside of the house.

 

If you look at the bottom of the photo above you can see how there are grooves in the concrete foundation and a sort of track assembly right there with the tree branch laying on it. That’s why I think they used to store heavy equipment in here.

These photos are actually kinda creepy now in retrospect and I would likely be hella scared up there by myself if I hadn’t been drinking liquid courage.

Ok so back in the compartment with the ladder, here is the upper floor. One thing I only realized when examining these pictures later was that this upper floor, and the lower floor beneath it, are actually a quite deal narrower than the building itself.

 

And here’s the ladder to the attic. As Cody pointed out, the mural behind it looks like Family Guy porn 😀

This photo is horrifying.

Ah much nicer. Just putting my handlamp and maglight on the ground in a room was surprisingly bright enough for picturing and navigation, but by this time my eyes had definately adjusted to the dark.

So notice how wide this attic is. It’s like twice as wide as the second level Family Guy room and the ground level, and also seems wider than the basement room. I feel like half the house is hidden away somewhere and I didn’t get to see it, but I didn’t see any doors or anything or any other rooms except those ones facing the front. Maybe I will try going back to see if I missed some hidden away compartments.

This is pretty cool lighting just from my flashlight.