The holiday's over: Creepy images reveal the rotting remains of a once popular tourist camp with crumbling kitchen, graffitied walls and slimy swimming pool
Its ballroom was once filled with waltzing couples, the bar was packed with happy holidaymakers and children splashed about in the swimming pool.
But now Atherfield Bay holiday camp on the Isle of Wight lies derelict, and these incredible photos capture the deserted site in all its creepy beauty.
Photographer Damian Haworth visited the old camp in the south west of the isle and, using his Nikon D7100 camera, took pictures of its crumbling kitchen, graffitied walls and peeling ceilings. The unsettled skies on the day he took the photos add to the eerie feel of the photos.
The camp dates back to the 1930s but has been abandoned for six years with the site since bogged down in a planning row over its future. The old buildings now look set for demolition as part of a proposed development.
A photographer visited a holiday camp on the Isle of Wight to capture these creepy images of the deserted site
The once proud ballroom of the Atherfield Bay holiday camp has been converted into an unofficial skate park by local youths
The reception where holidaymakers would check in and out during their trips to the Isle is now smashed up and overgrown
The bar, which would have been stylishly designed in the 1960s and 70s, is now daubed with graffiti and has a broken ceiling
The menacing-looking sky on the day photographer Damian Haworth visited recently adds to the drama in these photos
This angle of the entrance to the camp shows just how overgrown the site has become since it was abandoned six years ago
A burnt out building in the camp, which opened in the 1930s and was used as an army camp during the Second World War
A beautiful shot of the camp's swimming pool at night shows just how many stars can be seen from the remote coastal point
An abandoned office in the camp still houses a safe, although the windows are now smashed and floor is covered in filth
The chalets which once housed families holidaying around the nearby beaches are now burned out and mouldy
The empty camp has become a magnet for graffiti artists, with many walls now daubed in colourful slogans and logos
The holiday camp's swimming pool, which stands away from the canteen, chalets and ballroom, pictured at night
Ideas have been put forward for developing the site in the years since its closure and all the buildings may now be bulldozed
The camp's barroom is now covered in graffiti. A plan to build 63 holiday units on the site is now being examined
The crumpling site in the south-west of the isle has failed to stand up to the elements, with its iron roof collapsing
The camp, pictured in its heyday, when families travelled from around the country to stay in chalets and use the pool
A picture of the site when it was used as a holiday camp shows the contrast between the buildings now and then
Left: One of the more artistic works of graffiti at the site. Right: Photographer Damien Haworth who took the pictures
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