abandoned buildings in sydney

so guys, were are some old abandoned buildings in and around Sydney
Don't limit yourself to factories, lets think schools, hospitals/nursing homes, houses, anything!
I thought considering that our photo shoot themes often are on the dark side a thread like this might be handy.
Also I have no idea, I cant tell you a whole list of places in melbourne but that's no fun for you guys now is it!
So tell me

There's an abandoned winery in Minchinbury
a bowling alley in Blacktown (it doesnt have alleys but theres all graffiti and stuff in there)
that's all i know of atm

The old iron works at Lithgow are spectacular. But you have to guerrilla shoot anything other than from the outside.

i went for a walk around where i live (the northern beaches) yesterday and there is this abandoned derelict house on the headland overlooking pure ocean surrounded on all sides by mansions - beautiful juxtaposition - it obviously had floor to ceiling windows once but now they are just big holes with just a cliff drop outside..rotting wood and cracked brick.

Shadow Faerie wrote:i went for a walk around where i live (the northern beaches) yesterday and there is this abandoned derelict house on the headland overlooking pure ocean surrounded on all sides by mansions - beautiful juxtaposition - it obviously had floor to ceiling windows once but now they are just big holes with just a cliff drop outside..rotting wood and cracked brick.

Now that does sound like fun. Do you happen to know the address, I'd love to google street view it!

oh gosh sorry babe but i dont off the top of my head, will go back down there this week and check it or take some photos..

sorry! its just round the corner i should know! its on Dee Why headland if that helps...dont know if you could street view that and just work your way down.

If you go to "The Strand, Dee Why, NSW" and head south keeping to coast line you'll get there!!! sorry!!!!

will try and take some pics for you - its beautiful

jemphoto wrote:There's an abandoned winery in Minchinbury
a bowling alley in Blacktown (it doesnt have alleys but theres all graffiti and stuff in there)
that's all i know of atm

i know the one your talking about, i'll actually be there later on tonight and will...(if i remember) take some photos of it

i know the one your talking about, i'll actually be there later on tonight and will...(if i remember) take some photos of it

the winery? or the alley?

both are pretty awesome though.

the winery... and i kinda forgot... meh, its across the road from my best mates house so next time i'm over there i'll take some photos

good point GOTM!!! that would be a good 'industrial' type location

thats true, but inside its pretty bare and in places, i seem to remember there being exposed pipes and steel scaffolding poles...maybe they not there anymore

Wow thanks guys next time I come up (most likely for the launch) I will go guerrilla and check out these places.
There is a terrace house on the main street in Brighton le sands next to the Novotel hotel that looks abandoned but I didn't get a chance to try and get inside...next time!

any one got any pix of these places?

Tarla_Trent wrote:any one got any pix of these places?

if you go to my myspace there's photos in the ben album including the winery and in the jessika album there's the bowling alley and an abandoned house in blacktown

a bowling alley would be pretty awesome for my rockstar shoot..
and the masquerade shoot too, really

Miss Faerie wrote:a bowling alley would be pretty awesome for my rockstar shoot..
and the masquerade shoot too, really

none of the alleys are there anymore its just a big concrete room with graffiti and a few counters.
but its still a pretty rad location.

I'll have to take a look
I'm looking for a really grunge/rock type of location where I can use some guitars/a microphone

it's across the road from blacktown pcyc and on the corner of boys ave and first ave (i think!) blacktown it's on one of the four corners that has paul's warehouse, blacktown masonics center and a carpark for station users.

thanks for letting me know hon
its ok to just shoot there?

i did a shoot in there and it was fine, just suss it out before you go in there.
me and jess were just wandering around for awhile before we started shooting

awesome thanks

What's the address for the winery? I'm thinking of going there to take some shots.