This image was used for the cover of Barbara Nadel’s novel ‘On The Bone’, winner of a Silver Dagger Award an Istanbul based crime series.
Glenda Stewart is a textile artist and this bed was in her father-in-law’s attic. Most people think of the Hans Christian Anderson story of the Princess and the Pea, but that is very far from the reality of a remote farmhouse in the Co Antrim Countryside.
Mary Carey lived in her old family home until the 1990’s. The Modern Mistress Stove pictured is the same as that made famous by Seamus Heaney and was used to dry her clothes, cook her food and give her what little heat she could afford. This is how she left the room when taken to a nursing home which she sadly did not leave.
Her letters were a poignant reflection of the hardship she lived with, saying to her family “I can’t remember it being so cold. I knew it was very cold as Ann was always moaning but I kept on a good fire.”
“This is as lonely a place as anyone could ask now and no-one wants a one-roomed house.”
Pat was a sack and bag merchant who also owned a bar in William Street, Ballymena at a time there were 27 bars in the town.
Leon Trotsky lived in exile in the Princes Islands in Istanbul. This house was where he wrote the history of the Russian Revolution and heard news of his daughter’s suicide. The red walls in this room are considered a metaphor for the Russian influence in the house. He survived a number of assassination attempts in this home before he went to Mexico where he was finally assassinated.
A 200-year-old Foundry still held the remnants of the last workers to hang up their coats. The walls are black with the dust of the Foundry.
Andre Chenier was born in this house when his father was French Consul to Constantinople. He became a French revolutionary poet who was one of the last people guillotined and his life was the subject of an Opera by Umberto Giordano.
Andre Chenier was born in this house when his father was French Consul to Constantinople. He became a French revolutionary poet who was one of the last people guillotined and his life was the subject of an Opera by Umberto Giordano.
Andre Chenier was born in this house when his father was French Consul to Constantinople. He became a French revolutionary poet who was one of the last people guillotined and his life was the subject of an Opera by Umberto Giordano.
This architectural masterpiece is now inhabited by bats, monkeys and the homeless seeking a place of refuge. Used as a location for the film City of Ghosts it may well be haunted by the spirits of those who lost their lives in the Cambodian conflict.
Olive oil factory owners abandoned store with wooden cartwheels and assorted relics of the past.
Spinster’s corrugated two-room cottage with a cast iron stove made in Ballymena.This has now been demolished and is no longer part of the historical fabric.
The Spiral Staircase in the library in Trinity College Dublin could tell stories from the Easter Rising to the present day.
The Nazi Concentration Camp in Terezin housed children part of the Holocaust genocide. This Stove and bunkbed ladders still remain.
This was the home of an olive oil mill manager although the building is typical of Greek architecture in the Turkish Aegean hence the blue lime wash.
A former hardware grocery store which also served as the local undertakers. It stood for almost 200 years and still contained the detritus of generations. It has now been vandalised
beyond recognition and lost to history.
Abandoned after an earthquake this was formerly a Greek school that was taken over by the Turks and the photograph of the famous leader Ataturk remains.
During the reign of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge this former school became one of the most infamous torture sites of the 20
th Century.
This old bicycle was once a popular form of transport in rural Ireland. Originally found among weeds in a byre which is now the site of a new house.
This a 200-year-old brothel in Istanbul and this image of its original state is the last taken before the gentrification of the area.
This former police station was used as a Turkish railway archive and is now awaiting demolition.
This former police station was used as a Turkish railway archive and is now awaiting demolition.
This triptych encompasses what was left in the farmhouse at Ballyclose. Generations of personal effects were captured before the house was burned down.
Former holiday homes now used as a workers squat, apart from the bed the workers only suit and Islamic calendar are caught in the light.
Georgian staircase used exclusively for servants still has the patina of centuries of use.
Casa Botter Hallway , Istanbul
Glens interior with Robert Burns
Lara's Landing, Edirne
Sheldon Dock Interior , Belfast
Gas Works Corridor, Belfast
Gas Works Ceiling , Belfast
Henrietta St , Dublin
Henrietta St , Dublin
Francis Bacon Studio , Dublin
Willies Bike , Ballymena
Servants Kitchen with George Best
Haydarpasa Station
Confession Box , Las Palmas
Gospel Hall,Glaryford
Galbolly Village Hermits Room
Dome, Ayvalık, Turkey
Ballyclose Bedroom
Istanbul Foundry
Dylan Thomas writing shed , Wales
Portaferry Coastal Cottage
Rathsherry Aga
Farmers Rest
Wash , Newtowncrumlin, Glens of Antrim
Royal Academy Library , London
Trinity Library, Dublin
Hunter Stove , Newtowncrumlin, Glens of Antrim
The Last Dancehall , Glens of Antrim
Marrakesh Entrance
Orthodox Chapel Istanbul
Pide Restaurant, Anatalia
Rathlin Island Kitchen
Ballyclose , Bedroom
Upside Down Wardrobe , Anatalia , Turkey
Stalin's printing press , Tbilsi , Georgia
The Suit , Northern Ireland
Heybeliada Squat Curtains
Yacht in Anaghloo Hanger
Italian School at Casa d'Italia, Tangier , Morroco
Red Hall, Tangier , Morocco
Vauxhall Garage
Kitchen Burn