wooden staircase

Explore #176: Villa ‘Nice Stairs’, Poland – May 2016

Explore #16 of ‘The Picnics & Palaces Tour’ Next up was a quick stopover at this large abandoned house, now lost in overgrown woodland. Click on any photo to OPEN LIGHTBOX AND VIEW LARGE We picked our way through the undergrowth to the front of the property… Straining to get the full sweep of the staircase within a single shot, I crammed myself into a dust and cobweb-filled corner, crumbling paint and plaster falling off the wall down the back…

Explore #152: Leybourne Grange Manor house (aka Medway Manor), Kent – December 2015

July 26, 2016

Adam X

Hospitals & Asylums, Palaces, Castles & Mansions, United Kingdom

Just before the end of the year James and I made a quick dash down towards the South coast for a couple more explores… first up was this crumbling old Manor House, which once formed part of a Mental Asylum… History The Manor House at Leybourne Grange dates back to before 1724, when it was sold to Francis Whitworth. In the mid/late 1700s the property was sold on to the Hawley family, in whose ownership the land remained until it…