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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
Put this on the Diary of the dead thread but it looks daft there. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/4784389.stm Imagine a modern deserted village. Someone unearthing a village that is actually recent but covered in muck and weeds. Bridgend?; brrr.... | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 172.159.172.28 |
How can you forget about an entire village within 100 years!? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.23.225.121 |
It fascinates me, that point in which a place vanishes. What must it have been like for the last stragglers? Must do something with it. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
What's this novel you've written, Tone? Send me a couple of chapters. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.23.225.121 |
Hmm... still writing it. It hasn't got a story, it feels like, just people walking about talking. It had a story once but I kept forgetting what it was. I think it's just turned into a diary of fictional characters, or a film just about the background people. Also it's all in pencil in a book. Maybe this request will make me put it on my computer. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.197.72 |
Great post, Tony. It makes you wonder how many other places like this are waiting to be discovered. This could make the basis of a great story! There was an uproar in the news over here in Taiwan lately after an internet website dedicated to "ghost towns" posted pictures of an abandoned seaside resort complex about an hour's drive from where I live. Most people here believe in the supernatural, and take this kind of publicity as a bad sign. I'm hoping to make a trip there soon to get a feel for the place and take some pictures. The deserted buildings are weirdly futuristic, like UFOs. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.23.225.121 |
We went to Morecambe recently and it had a huge stretch that was deserted. There's something disturbing about fun dying, places that were loved falling by the wayside. Strike that; frightening. Maybe because it's also sad, and the places are familiar to us, in living memory. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.23.225.121 |
Your country sounds fascinating, Huw. I envy them that outlook - as a nation, that is. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.197.72 |
Tony, my friend wrote a story about Morecambe (it's called 'A Different Morecambe' and may turn up in an Ellen Datlow anthology, if accepted) and it definitely sounded like a weird, atmospheric place. He named the lead protagonist (and victim!) after me... | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.181.111.202 |
'There was an uproar in the news over here in Taiwan lately after an internet website dedicated to "ghost towns" posted pictures of an abandoned seaside resort complex about an hour's drive from where I live.' Huw, do you have a link to the site? | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.192.196 |
I just found for the link (urbanatrophy.com), but there's now a warning attached to it, saying it may harm your computer. I'll see if I can find the same info elsewhere. |