A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned. Named The Rest, the Grade II listed building in Porthcawl, Wales was built as a convalescent hotel in the early 1860s. It was subsequently used as an auxiliary military hospital from 1915. Between World War I and II, the hospital provided care for more than 2,500 wounded soldiers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The Rest, which sits on a clifftop overlooking Rest Bay, returned to civilian use as a convalescent hotel in 1946, before it closed in 2013. Photographer Shaun Ashford, 25, of Cardiff, Wales, visited the historic site and captured the Victorian building’s empty interiors.
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
VIBRANT bursts of colour fill the screen as beautiful flowers blossom in these time-lapse videos .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .