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.
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
A DARING duo take their chances and scale this spectacular 82ft frozen waterfall before it collapses .
WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
A former obese woman has told how she lost 19st, but was so terrified of gaining weight that she ended up developing an eating disorder .
Meet mother of four, Jackie Wright, whose bizarre fear means she is terrified of HOLES .
Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .
A mother is living in fear after the stalker she holds responsible for her daughter's death is back on the streets, after serving just one year in prison .
A woman who battled aggressive bowel cancer has started a fashion blog offering style tips for those living with a colostomy bag .
This is the moment a puffin delved into the ocean and bit off more than he could chew to collect a beak full of fish .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .