It was once a thriving local community, but now one of Scotland's so-called 'ghost towns' lies empty and forgotten.Clune Park estate, situated in the Inverclyde town of Port Glasgow, has long been derelict and eerily quiet.
In fact, it has even been described as "Scotland's Chernobyl".The Scots estate was once home to hundreds of shipyard workers during the area's golden age of shipbuilding in the 1920s.
Photographs show how much it has changed in just 100 years, with just a handful of its 430 flats occupied today.While most homes are boarded up and vandalised, some flats have been abandoned with possessions still inside in them, left forgotten.Scots urban explorers Rachel Catherine Orr, 28, and Connall Green, 24, from Glasgow travelled to the neglected estate earlier this year, and captured a series of photographs that are as sad as they are unsettling.The sombre images show Clune Park estate being overtaken by nature, with plants overrunning a significant portion of the site.
Elsewhere, windows are shattered and paint inside buildings has been stripped off of walls, while some flats have even been destroyed by fires.Speaking to the Daily Record, Rachel said: "It was pretty strange walking around the place. "I mean, we’ve been urban exploring for a while now and most places feel empty with some clear history surrounding you — but this place was different.
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