Velez-Malaga, Andalucia, Spain
The large tree is a Centenary Ficus Tree and has many reviews on google, check the peg,..
Right beside it other things lurk.
There was two trees planted, in 1910 ( more at the bottom of the avenue ) one died 2022, so rather than dispose uproot, and completely removed, they sculpted it, can you see the carved art work in the dead wood now?
One more photos, of this, then some more of Velez-Malaga from a street wander yesterday.
Where old buildings stood over a century old their demolition leaves remnants, with thin brick work and other tells,
Today - Velez-Malaga, Spain,
I took a wander around the long abandoned and overgrown ruins of a former Olive mill, with connections to Gibraltar.
Pérez Mill is an oil mill which used preindustrial system with cylindrical stones moved by animals.
Above the mill, there's a hill with the ruins of what once was Pérez farmhouse, main house on the estate which had several buildings, & has 100 year old+ olive vines, there's a natural spring & water deposit with an interesting fish population
Note overgrown stone yard I stand on
This water deposit and spring is just below the main farmhouse on the hill shown here, Pérez Oil Mill was created by one of the associates who funded the Economic Association, José Luis Pérez de Viacoba Moreno a governor of the Town of Gibraltar. Buildings said to be 18th century
Vélez-Málaga Spain,
Old railway station was abandoned fell into ruin, and then was renovated into a toilet block beside the municipal bus station
The railway 1908 went steeply to Ventas de Zafarraya, and also The Sugar factory Torre del Mar by narrow Guage linking a coastal route
The lower floor was passenger and ticket area, the upper floor housed the station master and rail worker families. The ground floor now has a waiting area, public toilets free, and an attendant present most hours the upper floor has been removed in the centre to flood sun light.
In the last tweet the photograph is dated 1968, this is was it earlier today, and a photo from some time after 1908 but well before 1962 (the track photo with points control in the thread was dated 1962)
1978 bits were found in scrap heaps.
Line map shown.
29.10.2025 Morning musings, fingers in way camera slightly, unable manage both observing screen, keeping stable and walking the dog, all at once later to the Puente Romano (Roman Bridge) and some photo stills I grabbed on the way.
This I cut accidentally was a bit longer, I did a full pan around. So here is West to North, then back to South from the roadside.
Walking down to Puente Romano, Sierra Tejada natural park, here in Spain.
Built 1954 In use1954-2003 (RAF)
2003-2010 (NATO)
Now closed
RAF Aird Uig was a radar site, then changed to LF broadcasting, ship to shore and cold war communications node. The LF would send doomsday signals heart beat to submarines & aircraft 100's miles away
tx ops & generator
One thing I really liked about it was no bosses 2 man posting, we did 4 on 4 off, lived at RAF Stornoway, on the off times.
Daylight in summer you could be outside in sunlight at midnight, winter however daylight is only between 9.15 am and 3pm.
I've been digitising old photos.