Photographs from a long term project.
The people who lived in the old Polish Home at Ilford Park, near Newton Abbot, moved to a new purpose-built home during the early 1990s. 
I was privileged to be allowed to photograph the derelict buildings.
I was particularly fascinated by the things they left behind and the way Nature was trying to reclaim parts of the site.
Everything in the photos is just as I discovered it.

A wall outside one of the homes

An outside cold store

A crutch in one of the corridors

Was this the way out?

Inside a kitchen cupboard

A toilet: with a sapling growing in it!

A Palm Sunday cross left on a window sill

A man's jacket

A pair of glasses on an almanac

Old shoes with a purse

At the end of 2009 the site was knocked down

The end of an era......

Only the shadows remain