Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic (of a time of Evil)

A submission to this weeks photo challenge : Relic

I wondered about posting this. However, sometimes relics are designed to make us think; to ponder the evil of mankind on mankind. These relics a salutary reminder of inhumanity to man. These pictures taken from two places in Cambodia are there to speak of the horrors of the Khmer Rouge. Cheoung Ek (aka The Killing Fields) is a place where countless innocents were murdered in the 1970’s. S-21 in a prison camp within Phnom Penh where supposed dissidents were tortured and murdered. Some of the relics below are gruesome. Their purpose, to serve as a warning to future generations and to commemorate the dead.You have been warned.

Cheoung Ek

Mausoleum at Cheoung Ek (Filled from top to bottom with Skulls of the murdered)

Skulls of the murdered at Cheoung Ek

Pieces of bones remaining after excavation in 1980

The killing tree where children were murdered

S-21

Torture chamber at S-21

The rules governing the prisoners in the torture chamber

Photos of the condemned

Gallows

Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic (Hadrian’s Wall)

A submission to this weeks photo challenge : Relic

Hadrian’s Wall in Northumbria England, a relic of Roman rule.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic (Computing)

A submission to this weeks photo challenge : Relic In this world of modern technology it’s amazing to think how far we have come in 70 years, especially in the last 25 years. Near to where I currently live is Bletchley Park, the secretive home to the world’s first electronically programmable computer ‘Colossus’. This device enabled the British to unscramble the German secret messages and helped for shorten World War Two. The pictures below are of a re-construction of this pioneering machine now a relic of a bygone era.

There is a museum there which is full of computer relics from the recent past.

Acorn RISC Micro

Acorn RISC Micro

ZX81

Apple – Lisa

Commodore PET

DEC

A bank of computers

HP85 Computer

Laser Disc – about 5x physical size of a DVD

Hard Disc – about 1m diameter

Various machines of the 1980s

Commodore PET and Apple II

WITCH Computer -Worlds oldest working computer

ZX Spectrum

Early Laptop EPSON

Early Laptop TOSHIBA

Dragon 32

Xerox

DEC

Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic (Tin Mine)

A submission to this weeks photo challenge : Relic

An disused Tin Mine on the North Coast of Cornwall near St Agnes. A relic of a long gone industry.