Back in the days on the board we never refer to anymore there used to be a category about abandoned stuff which was I guess the frontrunner of the Urbex community. It was called Abandoned Shit Weekly or #asw and I remember that one member (I think it was Slobberchops even) was not too enthusiastic about the name even.
I guess Urbexing is a bit more neutral and that is a lot better. Although I liked the concept of abandoned stuff because in that time in the Antilles where I lived there was a lot of abandoned stuff due to the hurricane a couple months earlier.
Boats were abandoned (though not really easy access), houses were abandoned (people fled and never came back) and public buildings were just open and abandoned (no funding to build it back up)
The shed
Here in Holland you don't have that many abandoned places as most of the potential living spaces that get empty are really fast back in use as housing and old stuff that isn't used anymore will be torn to the ground faster than you realize.
More than funny even to realize that I walk past this abandoned shed nearly every day and it never really got my attention to the fullest.
As long as I can remember there has been nothing going on in this shed and I wonder what it was the initial purpose of it.
My guessing is it had been an animal shed of some kind although animal sheds also need some daylight in there for when the weather is not the best. Or it might have been a storage of some kind. But who knows?
The funny thing even more is than when you look inside is still looks very decent. And that while the shed is in the woods and you have leaves blowing in every season, but I guess then also blowing out again.
Honestly, it still looks very okay inside? As if it could be used again?
But you also can see that nature is taking over a bit. The ivy is getting inside and coming through the wood trying to infiltrate the inside to make it all green.
Even tunnier it is to see on the outside that you hardly recognise the shed anymore as some kind of building.
The roof has been taken over and if you wouldn't know something was there you could hardly find it.
I do always get some kind of Blair Witch Project feeling about these little abandoned buildings, as you always except something to be inside and jump right out of there and this was literally the first time that I actually went to check inside.
Maybe Urbexxing is a just a bit too scary for me?