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Visit To Cardross Seminary just north of Glasgow.

Posted by Dickie Webb on Friday, December 2, 2011, In : Projects 
Last Sunday I made a visit to the old St Peters College Seminary in Cardross which is just north of Glasgow.  I traveled by train from Edinburgh through Glasgow then Dumbarton and finally to Cardross.  The idea was to take some photos of my current realisations of my Vessels work.  The Seminary was part of a Catholic Teaching college it has been abandoned since the 80's and is now overgrown and destroyed.. I chose this place due to its fallen utopia aesthetics which allow me to place the Vess...
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Berlin Day 2.... casual trespassing and open airports..

Posted by Dickie Webb on Thursday, March 17, 2011, In : ECA 
Today has been eventful after taking advice to visit an old listening station of the Americans called Teufelsberg.. The place is deserted and covered in graffiti, it has an end of the world air about the place with everything destroyed.  Access was by a small hole in one of the fences then just a case of carefully finding your way through the run down buildings and wreckage that lies everywhere...

Later in the day I also checked Turmkunst which is a building taken over by some street artists w...
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