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.
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
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Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
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Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
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A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
