Polphail was built during the early 1970s to provide accommodation for up to 500 workers at a nearby oil platform construction yard in Portavadie,
but was never occupied because the yard never went into production... MORE INFO...
You know, it's been like this for so long, they should have sprinkled it with 'Fairy Dust' from somewhere like Torness or Hunterston, declared it an 'Exclusion Zone' and then nicknamed it "Scotland's Pripyat". Tourists and sightseers would have flocked there to see it.
