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Fascinating video footage shows inside a time capsule apartment block which dates back to the 1940s.
Images show empty rooms ready for residents at Brant Park Cooperative Apartments, complete with full kitchens and bedrooms.
Most of the building is in excellent condition, with retro features including 60s and 70s themed wallpaper.
But it remains entirely deserted and is set to be demolished, tearing down hundreds of homes.
The building, in Ontario, Canada, was once a thriving retirement community.
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It was incorporated in 1948 by Cleaver Crawford Law Firm and originally consisted of two buildings, each three and a half stories high.
In 2017 a demolition proposal was put forward to replace the buildings with a 475-suite retirement complex, covering 17 stories, 16 townhouses and 1.21 hectares of land.
Take a look inside this time capsule apartment with vintage kitchens and 60s and 70s wallpaper (mediadrumimages/Freaktography)This proposal was to act as a landmark that offered palliative care on site.
The development has since been approved and the site is under preparation for demolition.
Photos were captured by urban exploration photographer and filmmaker Dave of Freaktography.com in East Burlington, Ontario.
"I spent an entire day exploring an abandoned apartment building," Dave said.
"I went up and down all the floors, taking pictures and videos of everything.
Most of the building is in excellent condition (mediadrumimages/Freaktography)"Some of the wallpaper was awesome, old fashioned, 60s, 70s, 80s themed.
"We went floor to floor, door to door, building to building."
Pictures show old galley kitchens with orange wooden cabinets and sideboards with a window at the end.
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Rooms appear to be bright and spacious, with big windows looking out across the development.
Fixtures and fittings seem to be in excellent condition in some rooms while others appear to be a little more dated.
Retro wallpaper in what would have been one of the bedrooms (mediadrumimages/Freaktography)Another kitchen is decorated with a banana yellow cooker which was presumably all the rage in its heyday.
White cabinets decorate the walls both above and alongside the cooker, in front of a cream and orange tiled splashback.
The floor is equally as bold in its design covered in what appears to be a bright red vinyl with a star shaped motif.
Another example of a complete kitchen (mediadrumimages/Freaktography)The room is part of a semi-open planned living space which leads into the lounge.
The rooms are separated by a bright green wall with a rounded archway.
Another kitchen with a similar cabinet design is decorated with bright pink walls
The development was once used as a low income residence for senior citizens.
But now it is set to be knocked down to make way for a more modern site.