The edges of Sheffield are rotting. The area around the city centre is gradually becoming more and more flooded with abandoned buildings. Old factories left to decay. The death of industry. The most recent to fall from grace is the Sheffield Ski Village.

Sheffield’s ski village was the largest artificial ski resort in Europe. After the fourth fire in a year, the ski village closed in April 2013. Now dilapidated, The Remains of the Ski Village have been left for nature to decorate.

I could indulge you with memories of yesteryear and how beautiful and wonderful the ski village once was. However, this is the first time I’ve been here. My only knowledge of it from the past is that a kid at my school once broke his leg there on a school trip.

Burnt to crisp and covered in litter and graffiti; to me, it has never looked better.