Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: ruins

Although Prague has had some human occupants for 250,000 years, and has been a city since about 880 C.E., the Nove Mesto, or New Town, only dates to the 14th Century. Nevertheless, even the New Town has layers of ruins under the streets, as you can see in this construction site on Spalena, behind Tesco's.

Here's another attempt at getting an interior shot into Tepla. I was using my cameraphone because my film speed that day wasn't fast enough, but still I'm not more enlightened. It just looks like ruins, puddles, and a general mess. Only the shell of the building, and some windows and signage, seem to have survived.

This bay was interesting. It looks like it was meant for a rail vehicle, yet there isn't any rail connection on the street or across the street, nor any room to turn a typical rail vehicle. Can anybody explain this? Also, there doesn't seem to be any provision for unloading, or any room for a rail vehicle of practical size.

Here's a few of the front entrance and sign on "Tepla."

This factory has signs on it saying "Tepla," which suggests that it was a heating plant of some kind, which seems odd for a town as small as Nachod. I've been looking for further information, and haven't had much luck. One thing I was wondering is whether the factory produced heaters, but the buildings are basically ruins now, so it's hard to tell.

This shot had the same problem as Picture 2, although I haven't bothered to clean it up since it's a cameraphone shot and the bleaching isn't on the ruins themselves. I've only posted this since it might give more of a clue as to what these ruins were. Does anybody know? I not what looks like a semi-gothic arch of sorts on the ruins, unless that's too rounded to be gothic.

This shot originally had a bleached area towards to the top of it, either from a light leak, a reflection, overexposure, or some such thing. The camera was old, of course, but it's just as likely I just wasn't using it right. With a lot of editing in Gimp, though, it came out okay, I think. I don't know too much about these ruins, and neither did the friend I was with, who was from Patras.