Somehow this isn't quite working for me. I like old buildings and crumbly brickwork generally, but I think what's bothering me is that your shot is neither one thing nor another. Old sepia photos tend to have a very defined subject, they never wasted film on boring old walls like we moderns do. So the sepia tone without the kind of subject they would have just doesn't feel right. Maybe that's a good thing, to comment on the differences between photography then and now, but from what you said I don't think that is your intention. I would prefer to see this shot in colour as a modern shot of old crumbly walls having survived to the present day and placing them in their current context. If you want to take an old-fashioned looking pic of the buildings in that interesting location, you should maybe try to get a whole building in, just a portrait of the building, being careful not to get any modern stuff in the shot, or cloning it out later. I'm sure it's such an interesting place you'll be back to shoot again and again and your shots will be better each time - we'll be interested to see them all!
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