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Daily Mirror
National
Ryan Thom

Inside ghostly Victorian Station Hotel as haunting images show state of crumbling venue

Eerie images from inside an abandoned Victorian Station Hotel show the shocking state of the cavernous building.

Pictures have emerged this week showing the internal damage inside Ayr’s crumbling Station Hotel.

The images show the abandoned reception, former hotel bar and function room, captured by urban explorer group Urbex Outlaws who snuck in.

Bizarrely a packet of condoms was found underneath a single bed in the hotel’s attic.

Urbex Outlaws posted in excess of 50 photos, capturing rooms left to rot, with chairs still propped up at the bar and drink glasses left deserted, the Daily Record reports.

Some pictures show the extent of mould in the former hotel, with an old cash till from the hotel's nightclub caked in mould and an abandoned Henry Hoover also covered in spores.

Photos from inside the hotel showed rooms left to rot (Urbex Outlaws)
A packet of condoms was found underneath a single bed in the hotel’s attic (Urbex Outlaws)

Some images of corridors show the roofs completely caved in with cables hanging down and wallpaper shedding.

The pictures were shared on Urbex Outlaws Facebook with onlookers shocked at the state of the building.

A post of Urbex Outlaws said: “The Station Hotel, opened in 1885 and closed in 2011. With over 300 rooms, 3 bars and a dance hall this once beautiful hotel now lies in disrepair slowly crumbling from the inside."

An abandoned Henry Hoover was also covered in dust and mould (Urbex Outlaws)

Some were saddened with the state of disrepair to the beautiful building, whilst others felt the damning pictures were enough evidence to see the ruin torn down.

The building is still encased in scaffolding after a four year wrangle between council chiefs and the hotel’s absentee Malaysian owner Eng Huat Ung.

Earlier this month we told how more giant holes had appeared again in the scaffolding of the south side of the B-listed building.

A Station Hotel pressure group has recently claimed that the building still has a future and can be saved (Urbex Outlaws)

The protective white tarpaulin which surrounding the crumbled building was breached for the second time in 12 months as council crews scrambled to repair the gaping craters.

It comes as a Station Hotel pressure group claimed that the building still has a future and CAN be saved.

The group called on officials at both local and national level to get around the table for talks aimed at finally breaking the stalemate.

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