Abandoned village of Pollphail

The landscape of Scotland is littered with lost communities, most emptied during the notorious Highland Clearances. But there was one … More

Pearsie Tin Kirk

This article is an extract from the book Abandoned Angus by James Carron, available as a paperback or ebook from … More

One of Glasgow’s best known abandoned buildings, the former Sir John Stirling Maxwell School, in the southside of the city, … More

Hidden away in a band of woodland adjacent to the main road running through Glen Isla, in Angus, are the … More

On the north-western periphery of Dundee, adjacent to Camperdown Country Park, satellite images reveal the likeness of a giant face … More

After over 80 years of coal production, Polmaise Colliery, in the village of Fallin, near Stirling, closed. The pit buildings … More

Cauldron Linn waterfall is a lost treasure on the River Devon, in Clackmannanshire. Regarded by Victorian tourists as a great … More

A simple market cross is all that remains of the Perthshire village of Rossie, a once thriving Carse of Gowrie … More

West Lothian country seat of the wealthy Steuart family, Westwood House, near West Calder, was an opulent Victorian mansion with … More

East Benhar Mine was a short-lived enterprise established in 1940 by Messrs Barr and Thorntonand abandoned 17 years later. It … More