More treks appear on ghost-of

June 23, 2010
We've been on some more treks! There have been 2 more to Hellingly and one to a completely new location: Runwell Hospital in Essex.

As a result, I have spent the last 3 weeks collating and sorting out Panoramas and sorting out and improving pictures from these treks, which is a complicated and highly time consuming process.

I have uploaded the images into 3 new folders in the File Manager, pending production of pages for these treks.

We in the ghost-of team have agreed that we will be returning to Hellingly once a month to chart the progress of the demolition as the place gradually changes over the next 3 years, so what I intend to do is just put a new tab under "places", which will take the viewer to a sub-page and the treks will be listed by date, rather than numbered, as there is so much information available in this context. This will take place over th coming few weeks.

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Some new developments! At last!

May 4, 2010
After a month or so of deglitching and messing around doing little bits and pieces, we got our heads together and got back out there! We have had 3 very successful treks this month: 2 to Hellingly Lunatic Asylum and one to West Park Lunatic Aylum. We were always a little unsure about going back out to Hellingly and West Park, because we had heard so much about the places being locked down, overly secure and numerous arrests made. However, we just couldn't help our curiosity and figured that, ...
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Posted by Lawrence Russell. Posted In : New stuff 

 

The Cuckoo Line Treks Stage2

March 19, 2010
New page generated about the 2nd stage of the Cuckoo Line trek between Heathfield and Markham Wood / Colytons Farm.
Pictures uploaded to new folder within "Cuckoo folder"
Panoramic stitches generated and uploaded
Links back to Stage1 created
Links to other pages/New Inn page created
Commentary inserted and page complete.

New webpage created for The New Inn at Hadlow Down

Photos, comments and Links created and inserted into page body.

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Posted by Lawrence Russell. Posted In : Website page development 

 

West Park Lunatic Asylum 2nd visit

March 3, 2010
A page has been generated for the 2nd visit to West Park
Photos of the visit have been uploaded to the website
Panoramics have been stitched and uploaded
Video footage has been uploaded to Youtube
Youtube links posted into the West Park 2 page
Some comments have been added to the page

"Meet the team" page updated and revised.
Index start page for ghost-of updated and revised.

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Posted by Lawrence Russell. Posted In : General 

 

New bits in Brighton Works

February 23, 2010
New photos of OneBrighton development uploaded to the site.

New comments added into various sections of the site.

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Posted by Lawrence Russell. Posted In : brighton works 

 

Upgrades to Brighton Works

February 5, 2010
New photos of OneBrighton Uploaded to the OneBrighton page, stitched and inserted into page where appropriate.
New commentary added to OneBrighton

New page added to the Redevelopment Tab: A then & now page has been created
Photos compared, found, time aligned and uploaded with dates of capture.

I have found a glitch in the Kemptown redirection page, which was stopping access to the kemptown website. This now works fine, so people can got to Kemptown from within ghost-trains.

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Posted by Lawrence Russell. Posted In : brighton works 

 

Upgrades to the Hellingly Asylum section

January 11, 2010
2 new pages installed in the Hellingly Lunatic Asylum section (which I have been sadly neglecting recently and it needs a bit of TLC).

1. page created for the Acute Block
2. photo sequence from Nokia N70 arranged
3. photo sequence from Nokia N73 arranged
4. photos from both sources cross referenced and a final sequence order has been faithfully created
5. photos uploaded to the File Editor
6. some photos have been compressed, but not all
7. Panoramic shots arranged and uploaded
8. Panoramics inserted...
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Posted by Lawrence Russell. Posted In : Hellingly section 

 

Mixed Updates and Additions to Pages

January 8, 2010
ghost-of:

1. Hints and Tips tab inserted at top of homepage
2. Hints and Tips page constructed with links to sub-pages
3. Preperation & research sub-page constructed
4. Clothing & Equipment sub-page constructed
5. On Site sub-page constructed
6. Links inserted into sub-pages to redirect to auxilliary websites
7. Jpeg images installed into sub-pages, compressed and resized

8. West Park page sets updated and expanded with more pictures
9. Pictures for West Park compressed and resized in File Manager an...
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Posted by Lawrence Russell. Posted In : Update for site building. 

 

General improvements & Additions

December 25, 2009
New Transport Buttons designed and uploaded into website. These are page specific and topic specific, so have been produced from scratch. Transport Buttons introduced to more pages.

Transport Buttons Help page updated.

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Posted by Lawrence Russell. Posted In : Update for site building. 

 

Assorted Updates to the site.

December 23, 2009
I have discovered and corrected a glitch in the "Future Projects" page. When anyone tried to return to ghost-of homepage from this page, they ended up at some strange domain registration site. The link has been fixed and works as it should do.

The future projects page has been updated to include details of the "Past2Present" and "Tram53" projects. A web page for the Tram53 project will be constructed in due course.

Additional pictures have been added to West Park Internal page.
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About the Project Coordinator


ghost aka: Loz Russell Ninja photographer, editor, web designer, programmer and the maniac who started all this off in the first place almost a decade ago! I just can't let this project slip because I feel so strongly about the complacency of the people of the UK in their need to destroy, remove and replace perfectly serviceable buildings (albeit with a little care and attention to detail). Most of these buildings could be pressed easily into alternative useage and easily modernised rather than replaced, such is the strength and longevity of Victorian Architecture. Where most of today's structures have a life of just 35 years at the very most, The Victorians considered that their creations were the last word in construction and would be there for a very long time to come. So, when they disappear or are threatened with removal as so many of the abandoned structures in this project are/were, it is nice to have some sort of record of them, hence the undeniable purpose of my crusade.