Simply outstanding.

A friend in the UK sent over a link to the Silentuk blog which specializes in urban exploration. The sort of work featured here recalls earlier efforts by a US master of the genre, Jonathan Haeber, and does a wonderful job of creating a record of man’s creations which are otherwise lost to his fellow man.

The reportage they have just done on the defunct Royal Mail underground railway is to die for. An extraordinary effort just to access the system, the high risk of detection and the accompanying superb photography all speak loudly to why we take pictures. They write that the system was originally built in 1855 before the days of electricity and was pneumatically powered! Shades of Dante’s Inferno. Electrification of the system illustrated was undertaken in 1915 and speaks to the great age of civil and electrical engineering.

Click the picture for the story.

There’s one photo in the large collection which speaks to the quintessential English delicacy. Tea. Here it is:

Be sure to visit the Silentuk blog.