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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Kaitlin Easton & Adam May

Inside abandoned 'Chernobyl' estate where fleeing residents left their belongings behind

Step inside this abandoned estate, home to just 20 people and branded "Scotland's Chernobyl ", and you'll find a derelict area left to rot with old primary schools and a church boarded up.

The partially-abandoned and derelict housing estate was once the cheapest place to buy a property in Britain - with one flat selling for just £7,000 at auction.

While now home to just a handful of residents, it was once a thriving community of shipworkers in the 1920s.

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