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.
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
An elegant snowy owl spreads her wings and glides effortlessly above the snow covered field .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits .
Meet mother of four, Jackie Wright, whose bizarre fear means she is terrified of HOLES .
These uninvited guests ELEPHANTLY make their annual trip through the reception of this welcoming lodge .
A floating market in Indonesia is bursting with vibrant colours as wooden rowing boats loaded with fruit and vegetables crowd the river .
A mother-of-three has revealed how her nine-month-old daughter was severely burnt after knocking a scalding bottle warmer over herself at daycare .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
AN ANOREXIC dental nurse whose weight plummeted to less than four stone has won her NHS fight for more treatment .
A deranged dad beat his girlfriend so savagely in a vicious 30 minute attack that the indent of his sovereign ring was left on her face .
Lauren Kilgariff, 29, was with husband, Shaun, 31, for four years .