Car scrapyard. Norfolk 2014

This is a random old place, from what we have found out while bumping into various new owners of the land, there used to be a slaughter house on the land for many many years, then some sort of a collection of motor vehicles has happened over the many many years.. With a mass variety of things such as vans, cars, fire engines, aircraft parts, buses, baths and even the odd toilet, kitchen sinks and a big huge bull. We found out that the lady that owned the site had died a few years ago, and the 5 daughters had inherited the land, their husbands were now slowly weighting in all the vehicles and clearing the land of the 3500 vehicles that nature was slowly starting to reclaim.. We had also found snippets in local newspaper from the 1980's selling some of the vehicles off.

It is such a shame to see them all just get dragged about by diggers, loaded into a dumper lorry and crushed, as it is a cool site, but over the last yea, the place has now become more and more noticeably bare

we visited this time just so myself and my fiend could check it out for a model shoot, and so I could have a play with the new canon 17-40mm L f/4 lens. So these shots are all handheld and either with that lens or the Canon 50mm f/1.4

I wouldn't mind a look round here. Very nice.

Love your photos style (The pram one is great)

Lovely shots! Pram one is also my favourite!

Your best photographs have to be the images of the trees slowly devouring the manmade! If this site had been left undisturbed, nature would have soon hidden the manmade from all but the very experienced eye. Land with collections of scrap - vehicles or general equipment of MOD origins were quite common in the immediate after war-years. Not surprisingly; my experiences of being shown dumps of scrap originating from WW11 when travelling with my Dad, was in fact only mirroring what he had been shown as an 8 year old by his dad showing him the 1920 era dump on neighbouring farmland. Sadly this vast site was cleared during the WW11 drive for scrap-metals, the only clues remaining being the overgrown dirt access lanes and two crudely built wooden loading stages that are now situated in the mature woodland and dense undergrowth.

Ok

So what happened to the rest of the vehicles if you said there was 3500

Fabulous! What an interesting location. Great shots

The other cars have been getting scrapped as they are now so rusted. They have a few teleporters come down with lorrys and they get weighed in

Love the ones of scrap metal being absorbed into the trees. Reminds me of "the tree that ate a bicycle".

This looks a fascinating place, would love to visit..

norfolkexplorer said:

The other cars have been getting scrapped as they are now so rusted. They have a few teleporters come down with lorrys and they get weighed in

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Hate hearing stories like this, wish they would invite someone in to save it all.

Some real classics here what a find.Thanks for sharing.