The remains of two red cars, that have seen better days, lie in the forecourt of a former car dealer.

#ECK #ColorADay #RedWed

'Red going on Rusty '

A former repair garage that I pass pretty often - easy to ignore the local!

#PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #Derelict #Abandoned #grunge #RuralGrot #Photography #cars #garage

A small barn, made of corrugated iron sheeting, has collapsed around and on top of a car. It's been there so long the steering wheel has turned green. The only question is - which collapsed first - the car, or the barn?

For #TinShackTuesday in association with #RuralGrot #ECK

A tin shack barn, still with a parked car in it.

#PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #Street #Landscape #Scape #Derelict #Abandoned #Devon

#BlueskyArtShow #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaput #EastCoastKin

A Ferguson tractor. Not moved in many years...

#PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #Landscape #Devon #Dartmoor #ruralgrot

Photo shows the rear of a dismantled red car on a garage forecourt.

#ColorADay #RedWed

In need of restoration...

Spotted in the forecourt of of a long-closed garage.

#Photography #EastCoastKin #Urbanscape #ruralgrot #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #Devon

A window in a barn with broken corrugated sheeting for glass shows several items left on the windowsill.

For #WindowsonWednesday in association with #ruralgrot

Barn window on a small-holding, #Devon

#EastCoastKin #BlueskyArtShow #Photography #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotogaphersUnited #rural

Photo shows an abandoned, fairly modern, red car parked permanently by the side of a lane in rural Cornwall. It's already surrounded by vegetation.

"You can't park there Sir!"

Parking in Rural Cornwall :-)

#Photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #ruralgrot #Cornwall #Kernow #abandoned #parking #car

No idea what this building was used for. The green doors are falling apart & have been shored up from inside, the downpipes & guttering are only partly functional. The building is in a state of some disrepair...

For #AdoorableThursday in association with #ruralgrot

There's a real joy in finding structures such as this.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #Devon #Dartmoor #Derelict #Abandoned

Photo shows an old stone outbuilding. On the right is a red door & the left an window.

For #AdoorableThursday in association with #ruralgrot

'Door & Window of Derelict Corn Mill'

#EastCoastKin #Photography #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #WindowsonWednesday #Devon #Mill #Derelict #Abandoned #Architecture #Rural #Countryside

A farm gate & traffic cone in the dawn light. One gate is still in good condition. The other is more normal - being twisted & bent.

For #scape day in association with #FarmGateFriday & #ruralgrot

'Farm Gate & Traffic Cone' All very normal. That is to say much beaten up.

#EastCoastKin #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #ClassicMono #Photography #PhotographersofBluesky #Nature #dawn #PhotographersUnited #Monochrome #blackandwhite

Photo of a door on a long abandoned cafe.

#AdoorableThursday #BlueSkyArtShow

A abandoned cafe.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #Abandoned #Derelict #ruralgrot #Dartmoor #Devon #Princetown #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #door

Photo shows an old stone-built barn on a farm. The small window has been boarded-up many years ago.

For #TinyWindowTuesday in association with #ruralgrot

A farm window in a barn in north Devon.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #barn #farm #window #Devon

In the foreground is a 5 bar gate covered with painted and rusting corrugated iron sheeting. A hole has been cut into the sheet so it can be opened. In the background stands a bar. Probably once thatched it's now roofed with the farmer's friend - corrugated iron.

A tad late for #FarmGateFriday - but I do love a good gate & #ruralgrot is good for day.

I love the 'home' 'belt & braces' construction of this - corrugated iron fixed to a normal 5 bar gate between granite posts.

#Photography #PhotographersofBluesky #Landscape #Farm #Devon #rural #countryside

"The Farmers' Friend" for #FarmGateFriday in association with #ruralgrot

If it moves: WD40
If it doesn't: Baling Twine

Useful for tying two damaged gates together & holding up your trousers - in a rural society that is. Urban use will get you odd looks.

#Photography #rural #farm #Dartmoor

Photo shows the wall of a Methodist Chapel in not so good repair. On the left is a door with a window in the upper half. The middle is a window showing a steel staircase rail. On the right is the signboard for the chapel.

'Buckhorn Methodist Chapel' for #WindowsonWednesday and #BlueskyArtShow in association with #ruralgrot

#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Monochrome #BlackandWhite #Photography #Architecture #chapel #church #Devon #rural

A gritting bin partially covered in lichens & moss sits on the left. Behind is a traditional Devon bank (probably hundreds of years old). Driven into the bank are fence posts at an unusual angle of 45 degrees & holding three strands of barbed wire.

Saw this wonderful gritting bin returning to nature in front of a Devon bank in #Dartmoor #NationalPark - for #ruralgrot. Note the interesting fence :-)
Immediately thought of @richardmortimer.bsky.social & his 'Joy of Street Furniture' series.

#PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #Devon

A fire hydrant sign can be seen in the grass on the edge of a stone-wall bank. Behind & on top of the bank is a barn largely made of corrugated iron that is rusting in places.

It's #FireHydrantFriday again in association with #ruralgrot 😀

This beauty is nestling within an overgrown stone bank with a backdrop of a typical farmers barn repaired with corrugated iron.

#Photography #Rural
#Devon #Monkokehampton

In the foregound is an old, non-functioning petrol pump. Behind the pump is a modern car waiting to be filled up.

"We've not bin' 'aving Petrol these 25 Years now"

Pulled up a petrol station recently...

For #ThrowbackThursday in association with #ruralgrot

#EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #ClassicMono #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #BlackandWhite #Devon #Abandoned #Derelict #Rural #CountrySide

#Monkokehampton Corn Mill for #WindowsonWednesday in association with #ruralgrot.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #PhotograpersofBluesky #Abandoned #Devon #rural #19thC

An old corn mill stands abandoned deep in the countryside. In the foreground are overgrown bushes.

"Monkokehampton Mill"

The old corn mill at #Monkokehampton, #Devon for #ruralgrot.

#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Monochrome #BlackandWhite #bnw #Mono #PhotographersofBluesky #Derelict #Abandoned #countryside #rural #Photography #Landscape #Architecture #LandscapePhotography

A sluice valve post, largely covered in lichen & moss, sits quietly waiting in a roadside hedge.

For @richardmortimer.bsky.social's #SluiceValveSunday in association with #ruralgrot

Waiting in vain for the day when it is called upon to serve its purpose in life, a forgotten & clearly unloved sluice valve lies quietly buried in a hedge in darkest, rural #Devon.

#Photography #Monochrome

A traditional #Devon #gate for #FarmGateFriday. A useful item to have. In association with #scape day & #ruralgrot.

#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Monochrome #Mono #BlackandWhite #bnw #Landscape #Dartmoor #NationalPark #moorland #PhotographersofBluesky #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Abandoned

"Fire Hydrant & Tanker: in the Valley of the River Torridge"

For #FireHydrantFriday

#rural #countryside #ruralgrot #farming #Devon #Landscape #Photography

Detail from the side of a lorry parked up for a break.

"Sillifant & Son"

An talkative #notRothko for @richardmortimer.bsky.social

#Cornwall #Kernow #lorry #transport #ruralgrot

A red car, in pieces and abandoned, stands in the forecourt of an abandoned garage. Behind the car can be seen a window and door into the former office.

Latest in the occasional #ruralgrot series. A former #car showroom and garage with #abandoned cars.

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #Photography #Derelict #Devon #Urbex

An window in an old mill. The left half is glazed, yet the right side has no glazing but instead a shutter.

Window, Corn Mill, #Monkokehampton, #Devon

For #WindowsOnWednesday in association with #ruralgrot

#EastCoastKin #Abandoned #Derelict #rural #grunge #PhotographersofBluesky #Landscape #building #19thC #Architecture

Image shows a real axle, differential and wheel from a dismembered and abandoned vehicle. It's sitting on a bed of leaves deep in the woodland. Possibly an old farm trailer.

Another in my #ruralgrot series. Found deep in #woodland.

#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Abandoned #PhotographersofBluesky #Landscape

I've done my fair share of it. Still do when I find the opportunity - tricky now living in rural isolation. Got a hastag for it though - #ruralgrot.

#Ruralgrot 😆 I love it 😀

The underside of an abandoned vessel sits within sea grasses. The rudder is still present but propeller has long gone.

"Abandoned Motor Launch"

From the #ruralgrot series.

#BlueSkyArtShow #TheJourney #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
#Monochrome #BlackandWhite #bnw #derelict #abandoned #Devon #River

Abandoned and rusting old petrol pump outside a similarly abandoned Corn Mill.

"Abandoned Petrol Pump"

Another photograph in my #ruralgrot series.

#BlueSkyArtShow #TheJourney #EastCoastKin #derelict #abandoned #Devon #Monkokehampton #Photography