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Name	Address	Phone	Type	Capacity
A Step Ahead Learning Center	Fruitland/salisbury Area Salisbury, MD 21804	(443) 397-3233	Registered Family Child Care Home	7
Parsons, Shari	Mt Hermon Road Salisbury, MD 21804	(443) 260-4968	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Thomsen, Cheryl	Morris Mill Subdivision Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 546-1803	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Lubna Ansari	Division Street Salisbury, MD 21804	(443) 359-1008	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Jones, Nenie	Louise Avenue Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 749-2380	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Martha Clark	Hollow Mist Drive Salisbury, MD 21804	(443) 736-8224	Registered Family Child Care Home	6
Zille Arif	Pine Way Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 742-6059	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Aguirre, Dianna	Chestnut Way Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 749-6365	Registered Family Child Care Home	7
Alembanchi Melesse	Coulbourn Mill Road Salisbury, MD 21804	(443) 900-6781	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Andrews, Addie	Dover Street Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 572-5765	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Danyelle Dixon	Spring Ave Salisbury, MD 21804	(667) 221-2786	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
DeShawn Woolford	Priscilla Street Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 845-0257	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Diahann Sheppard	S Haven Ave Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 572-4624	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Diann Manning	Jordan Court Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 430-3686	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Gravenor, Sherrie	Fooks Road Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 677-4902	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Holden, Nikkia	E Vine Street Salisbury, MD 21804	(443) 783-4505	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Jessica Mumford	Foggy Bottom Dr. Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 845-6824	Registered Family Child Care Home	5
Jones, Argene	Ward Rd Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 548-9781	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Jones, Wanda	Johnson Rd Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 726-3421	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
King, Tammy	Woodridge Drive Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 548-1454	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Meadows, Melissa	Aberdeen Road Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 860-4716	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Mumford, Jessica	Loch Raven Rd Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 845-6824	Registered Family Child Care Home	5
Rebecca Glass-Okoya	S Kaywood Drive Salisbury, MD 21804	(443) 736-8647	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Shakira Henderson	Davis Street Salisbury, MD 21804	(443) 826-6532	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Shinelle Sadberry	York Dr Salisbury, MD 21804	(443) 359-7317	Registered Family Child Care Home	7
Taylor, Virginia	Pacific Avenue Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 546-5414	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Temia Parker	Donegal Lane Salisbury, MD 21804	(443) 365-0905	Registered Family Child Care Home	7
Teresa Mills	Stoneybrooke Drive Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 548-1633	Registered Family Child Care Home	8
Trojan, Gloria	Satterfield Court Salisbury, MD 21804	(410) 546-3730	Registered Family Child Care Home	8

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$30,311 yearly

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$18,000

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How much does a Child Care Worker make in Salisbury, MD?

The average child care worker in Salisbury, MD makes $30,311 annually. The average hourly rate for a child care worker is $14.57/hr.
This compares to the national average child care worker salary of $31,284. Below, we break down the average child care worker salary in Salisbury, MD by the highest paying companies and industries.
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Child Care Teacher job at Little Angels Daycare in Salisbury, MD 21801

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We are looking for a Child Care Teacher to encourage the healthy intellectual and psychological growth of the children in our facilities. You will teach and supervise them while also motivating them to use their mental capacities and exercise their imagination.

Responsibilities

• Design and follow a full schedule of activities and discover suitable teaching material
• Balance your teaching between logical and social exercises
• Provide basic care and caregiving activities
• Use a wide range of teaching methods (stories, media, indoor or outdoor games, drawing etc) to enhance the child’s abilities
• Evaluate children’s performance to make sure they are on the right learning track
• Remain in constant communication with parents and update them on the progress of their children
• Observe children’s interactions and promote the spirit of concord
• Identify behavioral problems and determine the right course of action
• Collaborate with other colleagues
• Adhere with teaching standards and safety regulations as established by the official sources

Skills

• Proven experience as a child care / daycare teacher
• Excellent knowledge of child development and up-to-date education methods
• Methodical and creative
• Patience, flexibility and love for children
• Strong communication and time management skills
• Certificate in first aid and CPR
• Degree in early childhood education

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $12. 20 – $13.00 per hour

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• Monday to Friday

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The news that Hannah Portland was laying off 1200 workers shook the whole of Reedsburg. The notice, signed by Markus Hanna, was also given to most of the employees.

In its fifty years of existence, the company has only halted production four times. This happened at times of economic downturns, and the owners, in spite of everything, always tried to save the state as much as possible. Now, when it came to bankruptcy, the rules have changed. The company had to prove to the court and creditors that it was viable and able to improve its financial situation.

The reason was circumstances beyond the control of the administration. Decline in sales also played a role, but this has happened many times in the past. The crushing blow to the company was inflicted by prohibitively greedy lawyers from the Washington office, who put forward exorbitant demands in a class action lawsuit and did not want to make concessions.

The life of the company was at stake, and Marcus assured his subordinates that the company would not die. It was necessary to cut prices drastically, cut costs for the next year, but this would allow Hanna Portland to survive and become profitable again in the future.

To the 1,200 workers who received layoff notices, Markus promised every kind of help from the company. Unemployment benefits will be paid to them during the year. Of course, they will be accepted back as soon as possible, but so far there are no guarantees. More layoffs are likely to come in the near future.

In cafes and hairdressers, in school lobbies and church aisles, in cheap stadium seats during football matches, in city squares, in pubs and billiard rooms, the whole city was just talking about this. Every one of the eleven thousand citizens had an acquaintance or relative who had lost his job at Hanna. The current layoffs are the biggest disaster in Reedsburg’s quiet history. And although the town was lost in the Allegheny Mountains, the rumor went far beyond its borders.

The Baltimore Press reporter, who had already written three articles about the Howard County collective lawsuit, continued to follow the developments. He oversaw the Hanna Portland bankruptcy proceedings, talked to the owners of the crumbling houses. The news of layoffs at the cement plant drove him to Reedsburg, where he hung around in cafes, pool halls, and stadiums.

The first of his two articles was almost a fiction novel. Even the author who deliberately chose to defame Clay Carter could not have been more brutal. “The disaster that Reedsburg is now experiencing could have been easily avoided if the lawyer J. Clay Carter II of the District of Columbia had not been so eager for big fees,” the correspondent wrote.

Since Clay did not read the Baltimore Press, and in general tried to ignore newspapers and magazines, the news from Reedsburg would remain unknown to him, at least for the time being. But the anonymous publisher (or publishers) of an unregistered and unsolicited newspaper was not too lazy to bring the contents of the article to his attention. The latest issue of The King in Remake, which had been whipped up, included an exposition of this article.

Clay even wanted to sue the Baltimore Press. However, very soon he had to forget about his intention, because a far worse nightmare loomed ahead. The week before, he had received a call from a Newsweek correspondent who, as usual, had run into an insurmountable obstacle in the form of Ms. Glick. Every lawyer dreams of national fame, but only if it is associated with a super complex case or a billion-dollar verdict. Clay suspected that his fame had nothing to do with either. So it was. The magazine was interested not so much in Clay Carter himself as in his nemesis.

The article was a eulogy for Helen Warshaw—two pages of praise that any lawyer would give anything for—and was accompanied by an impressive photograph. Miss Warshaw stood in front of an empty jury box in some court, very smug but trustworthy. Clay had never seen the woman before and hoped she looked like “a ruthless bitch,” as Wes Salisbury described her. But it was not so. She was very attractive: close-cropped dark hair, sad brown eyes, which, no doubt, are capable of capturing the attention of the jury. Looking at the picture, Clay regretted that he had to act not in her role, but in his. God willing, they will never meet. And if they do, it won’t be in the courtroom.

Ms. Warshaw was one of three partners in a New York firm specializing in criminal bad faith cases, a small but growing niche. She was now pursuing a case against some of the biggest and richest lawyers in the country and had no intention of making any deals. “I have never had to testify in a case that I have no doubt will cause such indignation among the jury as this,” she told the correspondent. Clay wanted to open his veins immediately.

Ms. Warshaw represented fifty diloft clients, all of whom died and all sued their former lawyers. This was followed by a cursory story about a dirty story with a collective litigation for diloft.

Of these fifty people, the reporter, for some unknown reason, focused on Mr. Ted Worley of Upper Marlboro, Maryland. A photograph of the poor fellow was published: he was sitting on a bench in his front garden, his wife was standing behind him, hugging her husband by the shoulders. Their hands were intertwined, their expressions were endlessly pained and stern. Mr. Worley, weak, with trembling hands, seething with rage, was telling a reporter about his first contact with Clay Carter: Mr. Worley was watching a match involving the Orioles when a phone rang out of nowhere and a man began to scare him with the side effects of Diloft. Then a urine test, a visit from a young lawyer, a signing of a contract… “I didn’t want any deal,” Mr. Worley repeated over and over.

He dumped all the documents in front of a journalist – medical reports, a statement to the court, a predatory contract with Mr. Carter, which authorized a lawyer to settle the case for an amount of at least fifty thousand dollars, as well as copies of his two letters addressed to Mr. Carter, in which he protested against his betrayal. The lawyer did not respond to letters.

According to the doctors, Mr. Worley had less than six months to live. Reading these terrible words, Clay felt guilty for the very fact of the old man’s illness.

Helen told the correspondent that most of her clients would have to be videotaped to the jury as they were unlikely to live to see the trial. It was cruel and immoral to say that, Clay thought, since they were still alive. And yet, isn’t this whole story immoral?

Mr. Carter, the correspondent reported, refrained from commenting. To add to the impression, the magazine reproduced a photograph of Clay and Ridley in the White House, and the reporter couldn’t resist the juicy detail: Mr. Carter had donated $250,000 to the President’s Board of Supervisors.

“Soon he’ll need friends like the President,” Miss Warshaw quipped, and Clay almost physically felt the bullet go between his eyes. He threw the magazine across the room. I wish he never went to the White House, never met the president, never wrote that damned check, never knew Ted Worley, Max Pace, never went to law school at all!

Carter called his pilots and told them to come to the airport.

– Where are we going, sir?

– I don’t know. Where would you like to?

– Excuse me?

– In Biloxi, Mississippi.

– One passenger or two?

– Just me. “He hadn’t seen Ridley in two days and didn’t want to take her with him at all. He needed some time to be away from this city and from everything that reminds him of it.

However, two days on French’s yacht brought no relief. Clay needed the company of a co-worker, but Patton was too busy doing other things. In addition, they ate and drank too much.

Two of French’s assistants remained in Phoenix, sending him emails every hour. He considered the Maksatil case less and less as a promising target, but continued to track all the ups and downs associated with it. That’s his duty, French explained, since he’s the biggest class litigation lawyer out there. He has experience, money and reputation. All mass lawsuits end up on his desk sooner or later.

Clay read emails from Mulroney and spoke to him on the phone. Jury selection took a whole day. Now Dale Mooneyham was leisurely expounding his client’s claims. The government report made a powerful impression. The jury was very interested in him.

“So far so good,” Oscar said. “Mouniham is a fine actor, but Roger excels him in the art of rhetoric.

While French was talking on three phones at the same time, shamelessly shoving his pipes on the table, Clay basked on the upper deck, trying to forget about his problems. On the second day in the evening, after two glasses of vodka, French asked:

– How much money do you have left?

– I don’t know. I’m afraid to find out the exact numbers.

– Well, after all, about?

– Twenty million.

– What about insurance?

– Ten million. They terminated the contract, however, according to the diloft, their obligations are in force.

After sucking on a lemon, French said:

– I’m not sure if thirty million will be enough for you.

– Do you think this is not enough?

– Yes. Twenty-one lawsuits have been filed against you now, but their number will increase. We can count ourselves lucky if we manage to settle this damned case, unfastening each of three million.

– How many plaintiffs do you have?

– Yesterday was nineteen.

– How much money do you have?

– Two hundred million. I can handle.

“Then why don’t you lend me millions like fifty?” Clay almost said. He was amused by the way they juggle numbers. The steward brought more vodka, which came in very handy.

– And how are the others?

– Wes is fine. Carlos will stand if there are no more than thirty plaintiffs. But Didier’s last two wives were cleaned to the bone. He has a cover. He is the first candidate for bankruptcy, however, he is no stranger.

“He’s first,” thought Clay, “and who’s second?”

After a long silence, he asked:

– What will happen if Hoffmann wins in Flagstaff? I have a lot of these things.

– Then you will look very pale, sadly. This happened to me ten years ago, when it was about children who were born handicapped because of the medicine their mothers took during pregnancy. I fussed, quickly signed contracts, opened a case – maybe too hastily – and then the car derailed, and nothing could be fixed. My clients counted on millions and, since they had little cripples in their hands, they turned out, as you might guess, to be extremely emotionally unbalanced, it was impossible to negotiate with them. They sued me, but I didn’t pay them. A lawyer cannot guarantee a result. However, this story still cost me a lot of money.

– I would like to hear something more comforting.

– How much did you spend on maksatil?

– Eight million just for advertising.

– I would wait and see what “Hoffman” will do. I doubt they’ll budge. It’s still a gang. Over time, your customers will rebel, but you can send them to hell. French poured himself a full glass of vodka. – However, let’s start from the best. Moonyham hasn’t lost in a hundred years. Once he gets a harsh verdict, everything will change. You will again ride a gold mine.

– The Hoffmann people told me that after Flagstaff they were ready to move straight to DC.

– Probably a bluff. It all depends on how the process goes in Flagstaff. If they lose a lot there, they will not be able to brush off the deal. There can be two solutions: if this court admits their liability, but considers the damage insignificant, they will try their luck in another court and, quite likely, choose you. And you bring in some draft stallion and kick their asses.

– Do you advise me to appear in court myself?

– No. You don’t have enough experience. It takes more than one year to boil in this cauldron to enter the big leagues. Such things take time.

For all his love of noisy trials, Patton was clearly unenthusiastic about the scenario he unfolded to Clay, and did not want to be that “draught stallion” in court in the District of Columbia. It was just that he was considering various possibilities to reassure the young colleague.

The next morning, Clay flew to Pittsburgh – he didn’t care where, as long as it wasn’t DC. On the plane, he spoke to Oscar, looked through emails and newspaper reports about the Flagstaff trial. The plaintiff, a sixty-six-year-old woman with breast cancer, performed admirably. She inspired deep sympathy from the jury, and Moonyham played the strings of her suffering like a violin.

“Go ahead and make them, old chap,” Clay muttered.

Renting a car, he drove north for two hours, into the heart of the Allegheny Mountains. Finding Reedsburg on a map was almost as difficult as finding it on the highway. But, having crossed the pass, he saw a gigantic factory spreading below. “WELCOME TO REEDSBURG, PA,” the huge billboard greeted him, “HOME TO THE HANNA PORTLAND COMPANY FOUNDED IN 1946 YEAR!” Thick smoke billowed from two colossal chimneys, slowly blown away by the wind. At least the plant is still running, Clay thought.

Following the sign “To the center”, he drove to the main street and found a parking lot. Clay was not afraid of being recognized in jeans, a baseball cap, and three days of dark stubble on his cheeks. At Ethel’s, he sat down on a wobbly stool in front of the bar. Ethel personally greeted the guest and took the order: coffee and a grilled cheese sandwich.

Behind him, two old-timers were talking about football. The Reedsburg Panthers had lost three games in a row, and both fans felt they could have done a better job than the team’s current head coach. According to the tournament calendar hanging on the wall near the cash register, the Panthers were to play at home that evening.

Ethel brought coffee and asked:

– Are you passing by?

“Yes,” Clay replied, realizing that she knew each of the eleven thousand Reedsburgers by sight.

– Where are you from?

– From Pittsburgh.

He didn’t know if this was good or bad, but Ethel didn’t ask any more questions and left. At another table, two younger men were talking about work. From their words it was possible to understand that both of them had recently lost it. One wore a Hannah Portland cap. Munching on his grilled cheese, Clay listened as they talked about unemployment benefits, loan payments, money left in the bank account, and the possibility of hourly employment. One said he had arranged with a local dealer to take his Ford Pickup on commission and try to resell it.

There was a huge plastic bottle of water on a folding table near the front door. A handwritten poster hung above her encouraged everyone to donate to the Hanna Portland Foundation. The bottle was half filled with coins and banknotes.

– Why is that? Clay asked Ethel when she came over to refill his coffee.

– Oh, that. To raise money for the families of those who were fired from the factory.

– What plant? Clay pretended not to know.

– From the cement, the largest in the city. Almost 1,500 workers were laid off last week. We here, you know, used to stick together. They placed such piggy banks all over the city – in shops, cafes, churches, even in schools. So far, they’ve raised just over 6,000. The money will be used to pay electricity bills and buy groceries if things get really tight. If not, they will be transferred to the hospital.

– Did the business go bad? Clay asked, still chewing. Chewing – still all right, but swallowing became more and more difficult.

* * *

– No, our factory has always worked great. Hanna know their stuff. But recently they were brought to trial, somewhere in Baltimore, I think. The lawyers went mad with greed, demanded too much for themselves, and the company went bankrupt.

– Shame! exclaimed one of the old men. Here, apparently, it was customary for everyone to participate in the conversation. – This shouldn’t have happened! Hanna did everything to solve the problem, they acted in good faith, and those damn slugs from DC had a gun pointed at them. Hanna said: “Fuck you!” – and left them with a nose.

Not a bad summary of events, flashed through Clay’s head.

– I have worked at the plant for forty years, and it has never happened that we were not paid on time. Break their thunder, these filthy lawyers!

Since everyone was obviously expecting Clay to join in the conversation, he asked:

– Layoffs rarely happen here?

– Hanna hates firing people.

– Will they be taken back?

– The company is trying to do everything possible. But the bankruptcy court is not over yet.

Clay nodded and hurried back to his sandwich. The two young men got up and went to the cash register. Ethel resolutely rebuffed their attempt to pay off.

– No, no, guys, at the expense of the institution.

They nodded their thanks and went out after dropping a few coins into the bottle. A few minutes later, Clay said goodbye to the old people, paid, thanked Ethel and, passing by the piggy bank, slipped a hundred-dollar bill into it.

After dark he sat in the visitors’ stand and watched the match between the Reedsburg Panthers and the Enid Moose. The stands for the locals were filled to capacity. The orchestra played loudly, the audience roared, supporting their own and demanding victory. But the game did not interest Clay. He looked at the program and wondered how many of the players were members of families who had been fired. Then, row after row, looking around the opposite podium, he tried to guess which of these people had a job and which did not.

Immediately after the hymn was played and before the ball was put into play, a prayer was said by the local priest for the safety of the players and for the improvement of the economic situation in the community. He ended with the words: “Help us, Lord, to get through these hard times. Amen”.

If there was a moment in Clay Carter’s life when he felt worse than now, he could not remember it.

The abandoned city-island of Hashima. Ghost Island Hashima (Gunkanjima), Japan

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with bated breath presents a selection of the most mysterious places on the planet that cause quiet horror and interest at the same time.

The combination of mystery and danger arouses interest and unwittingly attracts attention, and the sight of nature, which calmly captures what people have created, brings us back to understanding our own insignificance in the face of time.

San Ji Ghost Town, Taiwan

A luxury seaside resort built specifically for the local wealthy. But already during the construction, a strange thing began. Dozens of workers died: broke their necks, falling from a height (even with safety ropes), died under collapsed cranes. The surrounding residents were sure that the town was inhabited by evil spirits. There were heartbreaking stories about a Japanese “death camp” that was once located there. In the late 1980s, construction stalled. The apartments never found buyers, and the authorities do not demolish the city, because people believe that in this way they will release evil spirits outside.

Abandoned military hospital in the city of Belitz, Germany

The city of the same name is located 40 kilometers from the capital of Germany. During the First and Second World Wars, the hospital was used by the military, and in 1916 Adolf Hitler was treated there. In 1995, people left the city, since then it has been gradually destroyed.

Eighth workshop of the Dagdiesel plant, Makhachkala

Naval weapons testing station, commissioned in 1939. It is located at a distance of 2.7 km from the coast and has not been used for a long time. Construction was carried out for a long time and was complicated by difficult conditions. Unfortunately, the workshop did not serve the plant for long. The requirements for the work carried out in the workshop have changed, and in April 19In 1966, this grandiose building was deducted from the factory balance. Now this “Massiv” is abandoned and stands in the Caspian Sea, resembling an ancient monster from the shore.

Lier Psychiatric Hospital Sikehus, Norway

The Norwegian Psychiatric Hospital, located in the small town of Lier, half an hour from Oslo, has a dark past. Once, experiments were carried out on patients here, and for unknown reasons, four buildings of the hospital were abandoned in 1985. Equipment, beds, even magazines and personal belongings of patients remained in the abandoned buildings. At the same time, the remaining eight buildings of the hospital are still working today.

Gunkanjima, Japan

The island is actually called Hashima, nicknamed Gunkanjima, which means “cruiser island”. The island was settled in 1810 when coal was found there. Within fifty years, it has become the most populated island in the world in terms of the ratio of land and the number of inhabitants on it: 5300 people with a radius of the island itself of one kilometer. By 1974, the reserves of coal and other minerals on Gankajima were finally exhausted, and people left the island. Today, visiting the island is prohibited. There are many legends about this place among the people.

Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong, China

The city was located in Hong Kong, but did not obey the authorities, being run by the mafia. Inside, not only prostitution and drug trafficking flourished, but there was also self-government. In addition, the region had its own industry: semi-handicraft production of noodles and all sorts of small things. The products of enterprises were inexpensive: there were no taxes, and local entrepreneurs did not comply with labor laws. They had their own nursing home, kindergarten and school. Early 19In the 90s, the population density reached two million people per square kilometer.

After a complex process of eviction of the people living there, in 1995 a park of the same name was opened on this site. Some of the city’s historical artifacts, including the yamen building, and the remains of the South Gate have been preserved.

Abandoned Hotel Salto in Colombia

In 1924, the luxurious Refugio El Salto was built in the city of San Antonio del Tekendama. After some time, the hotel was closed due to the increasing cases of suicides of visitors. Sinister legends and rumors circulate around this place.

Church of San Juan Parangaricutiro, Mexico

The church, located in the village of the same name, was buried under the lava of the Paricutin volcano in 1944, the village was completely destroyed. Miraculously, the altar and the church bell tower remained untouched, surrounded by the ruins of the temple complex, protruding cones of solidified lava resemble foreign paintings.

Underwater city Shichen in China

Ghost town Kolmanskop, Namibia

Ghost town Kolmanskop, built in a place where small diamonds were found in the sand, which the wind brought from the ocean. Large beautiful houses, a school, a hospital, a stadium were built in the city, and the settlement quickly turned into an exemplary German city. Everyone counted on long-term prosperity, but alas, the “diamond supply” quickly dried up. In addition, it was hard to live in the city due to problems with water and sandstorms, and people left it. Most of the houses are almost completely covered with sand and make a depressing impression.

Mankind has managed to build a huge number of majestic buildings and cities in its history, and many of them have been abandoned. One such place is Hasima (Border Island). For 50 years, this place was the most densely populated on the planet, teeming with people and life was in full swing here. So what happened to this island and why has it been abandoned for almost 40 years? Read the answer under the cut.

On April 20, 1974, the last local resident stepped onto the deck of the ship leaving for Nagasaki, and for almost 40 years only rare gulls have lived in high-rise buildings built at the beginning of the 20th century.

“Border Island”, that’s how Hashima is translated from Japanese, is located in the south of the country, in the East China Sea, 15 kilometers from the infamous Nagasaki. Its second name, perhaps even more popular in Japan, is Gunkanjima, “battleship island”.

So he was called back in the 1920s. Local newspaper journalists noticed that Hasima’s silhouette resembled the huge battleship Tosa, which was being built at that time by the Mitsubishi Corporation at the shipyard in Nagasaki. The 234-meter-long battleship was supposed to be the flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, but fell victim to the Five Power Treaty, an agreement signed in 1922 in Washington and limited naval weapons. Nevertheless, the “ship” nickname stuck to Hasima firmly, especially since in the end the island, in fact, repeated the fate of the battleship.

Hasima didn’t always look so impressive. Until the end of the 19th century, it was one of a great many rocky islands in the vicinity of Nagasaki, unsuitable for intelligent life forms, popular only among local birds and occasionally visited by fishermen.

Everything changed in the 1880s. Japan experienced a powerful industrialization, in which coal became the most valuable resource. The tremendous success of the mines on the neighboring island of Takashima contributed to the development of alternative sources of raw materials that could support the rapidly developing metallurgy of Nagasaki. In 1887, the Fukahori family founded the first mine on Hashima, and in 1890 Mitsubishi, one of Japan’s largest industrial conglomerates, bought the island for 100,000 yen. In the photographs of the end of the century, Khashima looks already inhabited, people have actively begun to develop its natural resources.

And the country needed more and more coal. The growth of a large industry was accompanied by an increase in the appetites of the aggressive Japanese military. Success in the Sino-Japanese (1894-95) and Russo-Japanese (1904-05) wars only warmed up the empire’s economy. The Mitsubishi concern, which had almost unlimited financial resources, developed a project for underwater coal mining at Hasima. In 1895, the company opened a new mine 199 meters, another one – in 1898. Ultimately, a real labyrinth of underground-underwater workings up to 600 meters below sea level formed under Khashima and the sea surrounding it.

The waste rock extracted from the mines was used by Mitsubishi to expand the territory of the island. The company’s management has already developed a plan to build a whole city on Hasim for miners and their staff. This was required by the growing scale of coal mining and considerations of economy, because in this case it was possible to refuse the daily delivery of new work shifts by sea from Nagasaki.

In the end, the area of ​​Hasima, largely reclaimed from the Pacific Ocean, amounted to 6.3 hectares. From west to east, the length of the island is 160 meters, from north to south – 480 meters. In 1907, Mitsubishi surrounded its property with a reinforced concrete wall, which prevented the erosion of its territory by the sea and frequent typhoons here.

In 1916, when Hasim already produced 150,000 tons of coal annually and had a population of about 3,000, Mitsubishi began a massive construction project here. For 58 years, the corporation has built here about 30 multi-storey residential buildings, a hospital, schools, a kindergarten, swimming pools, temples, a cinema and a club for miners. There were 25 shops on the island alone. His silhouette finally began to resemble the battleship Tosa, Hashima got his nickname.

The plan shows the main objects of the battleship island, which will be discussed later. 1 – hospital, 2 – building No. 65, 3 – school, 4 – Nikkyu complex, 5 – Glover’s House, 6 – playground, 7 – mine area, 8 – cinema.

Hasima’s first major building was the so-called. “Glover’s House” (in the photo below under the number 1), named after the Scottish engineer Thomas Glover who allegedly designed it. A seven-story residential building for miners with a shop on the ground floor and a garden on the roof was put into operation at 1916 year. It was Japan’s first reinforced concrete building of this magnitude. Hasima, in principle, became a testing ground for testing a new building material for the country, which made it possible to build structures of an unprecedented scale.

The square building with a courtyard served one purpose – to house as many workers as possible. The standard apartment looked more like a cell: one room of 10 square meters with a window and a small hallway. Kitchen, bathroom and toilet were shared on the floor. In fact, it was a hostel in its modern sense.

Two years later, an even larger complex, called Nikkyu, appeared in the central part of the island. The nine-story E-shaped colossus contained 241 rooms as modest as its predecessor.

Any free space in a very limited area tried to use properly. In the extremely narrow courtyards between the buildings and the slope of the cliff, small public gardens were organized for residents to relax.

The construction of residential buildings continued here even during the Second World War, when it was frozen in other parts of the country. Fuel was still needed by the warring empire. In 1941, a record was set on Hasim – 410,000 tons of coal were mined, and in 1944 Mitsubishi completed the construction of the largest residential complex here – the so-called. “Building 65”, a 9-story U-shaped building with 317 apartments, the only house of its kind built in Japan in the first half of the 1940s.

Next to it is the so-called. “Salt Rain Crossing” is one of the few places on the island that the waves of the East China Sea did not reach during typhoons. Here the population of the residential quarter could wait out the bad weather before crossing the space open to the winds and the sea.

Nearby is another iconic object of Hashima – “Stairway to Hell”. The climb, which seemed endless to the locals, led to Senpukuji Temple. It is not clear what seemed more hellish to the inhabitants of the island – the need to overcome hundreds of steep steps or the subsequent descent into the narrow labyrinths of the streets of the city, which often did not see sunlight.

Temples on Hasim were taken seriously – miner’s work now, and in the first half of the 20th century in particular, remains an extremely dangerous occupation. During the Second World War, many of the young miners of the island were drafted into the army, Mitsubishi replaced them with guest workers from China and Korea. According to various estimates, 1,300 captives brought here became victims of merciless exploitation in the mines and a half-starved existence. Someone died in the slaughter, someone died from exhaustion and disease, sometimes even the unfortunate people threw themselves off the island wall in a desperate, in most cases futile attempt to get to the “mainland”. And, of course, the number of deaths on Hasim for 87 years of mining was not limited to them. The island and Mitsubishi have thousands of lives on their conscience.

After the end of the war, Hasima’s coal was still in demand. The Japanese economy began a rapid recovery already in a peaceful direction. The 1950s became the “golden decade” of the island: the owner company began to conduct business in a much more civilized manner. A hospital was built in the mining town, and in 1958 a huge 7-story school was opened, which became the last large building erected here.

From the first to the fourth floor of the complex was occupied by an elementary school, the senior classes were located above. At the top level were sports and assembly halls.

Hasima’s population peaked in 1959. On the six and a half hectares of the island, of which only 60% were residential, 5259 people lived. The population density here was 1391 people per hectare – in this sense, Hasima had no competitors. It was the most densely populated place on the planet – residential areas were literally crammed with people.

Of course, there were no cars here. As the locals used to say, one could cross the island from one end to the other in less time than smoking a cigarette. Even umbrellas were not needed: an intricate labyrinth of covered staircases, corridors and galleries united almost all the buildings of residential areas, allowing, if necessary, in principle, not to go out into the open air.

The housing distribution reflected the strict social hierarchy that prevailed here. The only one-story mansion, and on top of the cliff from which the island once began, was occupied by the manager of the Mitsubishi mine. Management, teachers and doctors lived in relatively spacious two-room apartments with their own kitchen and bathroom in separate residential buildings. Mining families were also provided with a two-room apartment of 20 square meters, but with kitchens, toilets and showers “on the floor”. And unmarried miners and seasonal workers lived in those very first one-room apartments for 10 “squares”, built here at the beginning of the 20th century.

Mitsubishi ruled Hashima with an iron fist, establishing a kind of private property dictatorship. On the one hand, the corporation provided miners with guaranteed jobs and wages, free housing, electricity and water. On the other hand, the inhabitants of the island were forcibly involved in public works to maintain buildings in a decent form: cleaning public premises and territory.

The island community gave the “big land” the coal it needed so much, but in turn its existence was entirely dependent on the supply of food, clothing and even ordinary water. Under 19In the 60s, there was not a single more or less serious plant here, only in 1963 the parent company brought soil from the island of Kyushu, which made it possible to set up small squares, gardens and orchards on the roofs of buildings and the few available free areas. The inhabitants of Hasima got the opportunity to walk among the trees and grow at least some minimum amount of vegetables.

Khashima’s future seemed bright in the early 1960s, but by the end of the decade, as oil became cheaper, coal mining here became more and more unprofitable. Mines were closing all over the country, and the small island in the East China Sea also eventually fell victim to the reorientation of the Japanese economy towards the consumption of “black gold”. January 19For 74 years, Mitsubishi announced the liquidation of the mines on Khashima, in March the school built 16 years ago was closed, and on April 20 the last inhabitant of the island left it on a boat. Hasima turned into a ghost.

For 87 years, 16.5 million tons of coal have been mined here, but for the last four decades the island has been abandoned, and the buildings built with such difficulty, using the slightest piece of land, are slowly but irreversibly destroyed. The island-ship abandoned by people, guarding the entrance to Nagasaki Bay, serves as a kind of monument to the history of Japanese society.

For a long time it was strictly forbidden for tourists and lovers of the “abandoned” to visit it – the buildings built in the first half of the 20th century degraded too actively. However, since 2009, the authorities have again allowed everyone to visit Khashima by organizing a special walking route in a small but safe part of the island.

A new wave of interest in Hasima was raised by the last episode of the epic film about the adventures of the British agent 007 James Bond. The lair of the main villain, Raoul Silva, in Skyfall (2012) was obviously inspired by the “battleship island” in the East China Sea, although it was filmed in the studios of the English studio Pinewood.

“The city was empty almost overnight. He convinced everyone that there was a leak at the chemical plant.”

Enthusiasts propose to reconstruct the entire island, whose tourism potential is huge, to organize an open-air museum of industrial history here, and even include Hashima in the UNESCO World Heritage List. However, as usual, everything depends on finances, because the budget for the restoration of dozens of buildings, many of which are dilapidated, is difficult to predict.

However, now anyone can wander around the ghost island without leaving their own computer. In July 2013, the Google Street View service that filmed Hasima made it possible to see not only the quarters of the island that are currently inaccessible to tourists, but even to visit abandoned buildings, go into miners’ apartments and see household items abandoned upon departure.

Khashima, “Japanese Pripyat”, only without radiation, remains a harsh symbol of the birth of a large industry empire and at the same time clearly shows that nothing lasts forever, even under the rising sun.

The Japanese island of Hashima until 1810 was a piece of rock measuring 0.063 km². When coal deposits were found near the rocky terrain of the East China Sea, the Japanese authorities began to artificially expand the territory of the island using waste rock that was extracted from mines. In 1890, the island was bought by the Japanese industrial conglomerate Mitsubishi for 100,000 yen. The company’s management developed a plan for the construction of a whole city on Hasim for miners and their staff. This was required by the growing scale of coal mining and economic considerations, because in this case it was possible to refuse the daily delivery of new work shifts by sea. At its peak, Hasima was considered one of the most densely populated places on Earth, with a population of 139 in the residential area.100 people per sq. km (more than 5,000 people lived here). But already in the early 1960s, coal ceased to be the main fuel resource. The Japanese economy is reoriented to oil consumption, and coal mines become unprofitable. Mitsubishi Corporation announces in 1974 the end of coal mining at Hasima. Already on April 20, the last residents left the city, leaving almost all their belongings behind.

The width of the island is less than 200 meters, the length is about 500 meters, the total area barely exceeds 6 hectares. At 19In 07, the island was surrounded by a reinforced concrete wall, which prevented the erosion of its territory by the sea and frequent typhoons.

According to the official version, such a sudden flight on the “lung” was caused by the high cost of transportation. Most of the inhabitants of the city-island were representatives of the lower property class, so they simply did not have the means to transport their belongings to the mainland. The shops left manufacturing goods, for example, dozens of TVs were left in one of them 1970s.

The Japanese government is trying not to focus on the abandoned island. For 35 years, there was a law prohibiting visits to Hasima. Allegedly, the Japanese government was trying to protect the city from “black diggers”. Violation was punishable by 30 days in prison or immediate deportation from the country (for foreigners).

During the 58 years of active coal mining and the rapid development of the island, 30 multi-storey residential buildings, 2 schools, a kindergarten, 2 swimming pools, a hospital, several temples, a cinema and a club have been built here.

Now the rules have been relaxed, even a small route for tourists has been opened on the outskirts of the city-island. And since 2013, Google Earth users have been able to take virtual walks through the streets of Hashima.

In the city due to small residential areas, tiny apartments were built in 10 sq.m. with a kitchen and a toilet on the floor, in fact, a hostel.

Even the roof area was used, where small squares were planted for recreation.

Now nature on the island is slowly destroying everything that man managed to create.

Some more interesting things about Hasima:

The authors of the film about James Bond, inspired by the ghost town, copied the lair of the main villain – Raul Silva from the epic “007. Coordinates: “Skyfall”, exactly from Hasima. But the picture itself was shot in the pavilions of the Pinewood studio.

Stills from the film: Skyfall Coordinates.

Stills from the film: Skyfall coordinates.

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3. North Brother Island, New York, USA.

North Brother Island is an uninhabited island in the East River between the Bronx and Rikers Island. Its neighbor is South Brother, located not far from it. Until 1885, this island was inhabited by residents, at the same time that the hospital from the city of Riverside moved here from Blackwell Island (now known as Roosevelt Island). Riverside Hospital was founded in 1850 as a smallpox hospital, which within its walls rescued smallpox patients. Over time, the task of this medical institution became the treatment of other conventional diseases. At 19The hospital was closed in 1940.

The bird sanctuary and the island are now abandoned, and the area has become a no-go area for the public. Most of the buildings of medical institutions still remain, but they are in a dilapidated state, and there is a possibility of their complete destruction. The dense forest hides the ruined buildings of medical institutions, and from 1980 until the beginning of 2000, this area became one of the largest breeding grounds for the night heron (horned night heron). However, in 2011 this bird species left the island for unknown reasons.

4. Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands (Bikini Atoll).

Bikini Atoll is a ring-shaped coral island, a world heritage site, located in the Micronesia islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of which is occupied by the Marshall Islands. About 2000 thousand years this island was inhabited by inhabitants. Only once, even before the formation of the German Colony on the Marshall Islands in 1885, dozens of ships sailed to the island.

Between 1946 and 1958, about twenty-three nuclear device tests were carried out on Bikini Atoll. The population of Micronesia, numbering about 200, lived on fish, shellfish, bananas and coconuts before being displaced by the United States due to radiation. Most of the Bikini residents temporarily resettled on Kili Island and still live there and receive compensation from the United States government for their survival.

5. Hashima Island, Japan (Hashima Island).

Hashima Island, commonly referred to as Gunkanjima, is one of the 505 inhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, located 15 kilometers from Nagasaki City. From 1887 to 1974 the island was famous for its mining complex. An exceptional feature of the island are the uninhabited residential buildings and the fortified embankment surrounding the island.

Since 2005, the island has been administered by the city of Nagasaki, and before that, under the jurisdiction of the former city of Takashima. Once upon a time, coal was mined on this island and production was established during the industrialization of Japan. At 189In 0 year, Mitsubishi bought the island and began a project to find and extract coal deposits from underwater mines.

6. Great Blasket Island, Ireland.

Great Blasket Island is one of the main islands located in County Kerry, Ireland. Until 1953, the island was inhabited by residents, after which the Irish government decided that it could no longer guarantee the safety of the remaining population. This island is home to three famous Irish writers: Thomas O’Crohan, Peig Sayers, Muris O’Suillebhain.

Until 1953, a whole settlement in the western part of Ireland was formed from the inhabitants of Great Blasket Island. Small groups of people, mostly fishermen (even when the population peaked at 150), mostly lived in primitive cottages located on a fairly sheltered coast in the northeast. Currently, the island is abandoned by residents and sold to the state.

7. Stroma Island, Scotland, UK (Stroma).

Stroma Island is located off the northern coast of the Scottish mainland. This densely populated island was once owned by a Keithless County farmer who used it to raise sheep. In the past, the population of Stroma Island was about 550 inhabitants, but by 19In 01, the number of inhabitants decreased to 375 people. During the 20th century, the number of residents began to gradually decrease and by the beginning of 1960 the remaining residents were engaged in the construction of the Dounry nuclear power plant. By 1962, only two families remained on the island.

Based on the number of permitted buildings, one can judge the former population of the island. A church with a bell tower was built in the center of the island. Next to the church was the priest’s house, intended for the shepherds to live, especially during the birth of lambs. Currently, there is a museum-reserve here, which is a site fenced off from sheep, on the territory of which rare plants grow.

8. Great Isaac Cay, Bahamas.

Great Isaac Island is a small island in the Bahamas 20 miles (32 km) from the Bahamas. This island can only be reached by boat. The landmark of the island is a lighthouse 151 feet (46 meters) high, installed in 1859. In 1969, two caretakers settled on the island, who guarded the lighthouse and other buildings in the vicinity of the island.

The territory of this island is open to the public, although access to the lighthouse itself is blocked so that people cannot approach the structure. The caretaker’s house, the reservoir and the buildings adjacent to it turned into ruins. A derelict string of buildings have made Great Isaac Island an accessible destination for boaters.

9. Pollepel Island, New York, USA (Pollepel Island).

Pollepel Island is an island in the Hudson River. Also known as Pollepel Island or Bannerman Island, where you can see the ruins of Bannerman Castle. This island is located 50 miles (80 km) north of New York and 300 meters from the east bank of the Hudson River.

The main feature of the island is Bannerman’s castle, which is an abandoned military warehouse. Currently, the castle is almost entirely in ruins and is the property of the New York State Park, a historical landmark of the island. If the outer walls were still preserved, then all the floors and the inner partitions of the walls were burned. The island has been the victim of vandalism, encroachment, destruction and the result of neglect.

In the East China Sea, about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki, is the tiny island of Hashima, which translates as “Border Island”, commonly referred to as Gunkanjima (meaning “Island of Warships”), it is one of the 505 islands in the prefecture Nagasaki and is located at a distance of 15 km from the city of Nagasaki itself.

160 meters from west to east and 480 meters from north to south, with the coastline of the island about 1 km – a piece of rock, slightly overgrown with greenery. For centuries, Hashima Island has been a home for birds and a temporary refuge for fishermen from Nagasaki and Takashima.

In the 19th century, steam engines powered by coal came to Japan. With the development of our own industry and steam transport, the question of raw material sources, including coal, became acute. And in 1890, the Mitsubishi company (in 1870 the Tsukomo Shokai steamship company (Tsukomo Shokai) was founded. In 1875, after several name changes, it became known as the Mitsubishi Mail Steamship Company (Mitsubishi Postal Steamship Company), at that time – only only a shipping company bought Hashima Island to develop coal deposits on the island itself and – with a long view – on the ocean shelf.0005

Workers were brought to the island to service the mines and the construction of a residential complex for Mitsubishi personnel with all the infrastructure began. In 1916, the first concrete residential buildings in Japan were erected on the island, and along the entire perimeter of the island – a “sea wall” that protected the island from storms and storms. It was in those days that the island acquired its appearance, for which it received its middle name – “Gunkanjima” (Gunkanjima) – “Cruiser” (as well as “Cruiser Island” and “Island of Warships”)

By the beginning of World War II, the Hashima coal mine was one of Japan’s main coal mines. Coal mining and the population of the island grew. In 1959, 5,259 people lived on the island, which, in terms of the area of ​​the island, gave the highest population density ever recorded in the world – 139,100 people per sq. km. (In Russia, the population density is 8.3 people per km?, in Moscow – 9,722; in Japan – 337; the city with the highest population density is Cairo – 36,143 people per km?) The island had its own primary and secondary school for employees’ children. Hospital, Buddhist and Shinto shrines. And everything else necessary for life without going to the “mainland”. Such a small island nation.

In 1960 there was an energy crisis: coal was recognized as unprofitable and “environmentally dirty” fuel. Japanese transport and industry switched to oil. Coal mines began to close all over the country and the number of workers employed in this industry began to decline. It is clear that the Hashim mine was no exception. During the ensuing decade, coal production at the mine declined and workers left the island. By 1974, only about two thousand people remained on Cruiser Island.

On January 15, 1974, Mitsubishi announced the closure of the mine and the suspension of all work. On April 20, 1974, the last batch of residents left Hashim. Cruiser Island became Ghost Ship.

The island was “discovered” anew already in the 21st century. And immediately gained absolutely wild popularity, especially among fans of the ruins. Moreover, not so much in Japan itself, but in the Western world. Since August 2005, journalistic groups have been allowed to visit the island. But only in a very limited area. Because collapsing buildings are a serious threat. Some buildings have already collapsed.