Welcome Beyond the Point. We’re an award-winning passion project dedicated to recording overlooked built heritage through visual media. Our mission is to record surviving disappearing structures for posterity through high-quality architectural photography and documentary-making. Established as a blog in 2011, it has evolved into a visual archive of over 400 historic sites, ranging from Victorian asylums to military defences and abandoned factories. Based in south Essex, our local history is our initial focus, although we also examine sites further afield with their own unique stories, often revealing how present communities and environments are shaped.