Ghost Towns

It is very quiet in Padstow today, almost ghostly, so whilst contemplating this fact my mind slipped back to a documentary I watched the other day about the abandoned village of Hallsands in Devon. This small fishing community was destroyed by storms in January 1917, after the Admiralty dredged its shingle to extend Plymouth Dockyard.

Before

After

Now

A sad tale of lost livelihoods, homes and more importantly community, but thankfully no fatalities in this instance.
Whilst investigating some pictures of this village for you to look at I stumbled across some more 'Ghost Towns' from around the world - bizarre to say the least that these places have simply, for whatever reason, been deserted.
Entire seaside resorts left abandoned;

Varosha, Cyprus

Googlemap

deserted theme parks;

Tohoku, Japan

Tohoku Park, Japan

Chippewa Lake Park, OH



and, according to Googlemaps, a town that for all intents and purposes exists - yet doesn't... and never has! Go on... Google it, you can find all sorts of data on it, and yet it never was!

Argleton, Lancashire

Having observed these poor, sad and lonely places I have come to realise that Padstow, although not a bustling metropolis today is, however, alive - and for that we can be grateful. No matter how quiet it gets, it is by no means a ghost town, it has life, it has blood in it's veins, it has a heart.