Stockholm Photoblog

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

I went down the ladder to the Family Guy room again and there was a hole in the floor to the compartment below. This was the first room in the house I took a picture in, where you saw those gas cannisters. Now I don’t actually remember walking through that doorway and it seems to be a hallway that turns right, so perhaps thats how you get into the other compartments and I just missed it in my initial excitement or something.

So coming down the main ladder I realized it was actually fucking broken in half on one side.

Like seriously, I’m lucky this rinky dink piece of shit didn’t split on the other side because I would have fallen on the concrete.

Ok so at this point I got all the exploration I needed from the house, and the EXIF date on the next photo shows 2am. So two hours had elapsed up until this point where I decided to start walking back.

This is a great shot. See those windows are fake, and I really don’t see how to get to the second floor on this face of the building; the family guy room was clearly only half the width. I really have an inkling to go back now the more I think about it.

Ok so this next photo I took months ago before I started putting photos on my website, and this is what initially sparked my interest in the house across the way. It looked so out of place, especially since that parking lot just ends in inaccessible distance before it.

This was the first time I noticed the house and decided it might be abandoned, and added it to my “list of things to check out”. You may also notice that hole in the foundation which serves as the basement door.

There’s a lot of other places I have marked on my list from this initial walk around the area that I havn’t gone to yet, but this trip two nights ago was a great start. I guess you could say I “survey the area” before exploring in places where I might need to be cautious by myself. If you read the Nacka Cellphone Walk entry I posted a few weeks ago, I actually went up to that house in the daytime via the parkinglot. I was too nervous to actually go inside because I wasn’t prepared with my flashlight or anything and just had my cellphone, but I think it’s important to test the waters before throwing yourself inside somewhere. Or maybe I’m just a woman.

Anyway, now I started to head back down the hill. Notice the ladder on the side of the building, that’s the one I climb up later :).

 

It was starting to get brighter outside. At this time of year in Sweden, the twilight starts around 3am.

I walked back down the staircase again using the rails as support.

I realize some of these photos are basically duplicates from when I was heading up… so eat me.

 

 

OK here comes the fun part :D. This building clearly looked abandoned too, so as I walked down the stairs around it I decided to search for an entrance. There was a set of double doors on the side of the building, and though they were closed there was no vertical frame between them so I sort of just… pulled them open and they opened ;).

Yep. I actually felt quite brazen now. I really didn’t dwell in here long to be honest. After posing for the photo below I walked into the next room.

I didn’t walk out on this floor at all, but turned immediately left for a staircase to the second level.

I set the camera down on the cement floor right at the top of the stairs. Creepy.

This one is cool, it looks like the sun but it’s actually just a street light!

I so kewl.

In retrospect I should have spent more time in here but I was feeling a bit nervous so I walked out the exit to the staircase on the outside. It was unlocked too, fyi.