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.
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
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This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
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CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
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