The Intro
After stumbling across photos of the beedy eye'd operating lights back in early 2018 I'd spent quite a while looking for the site. Only to realise it's almost 150 miles away, which on trains that run mostly on diesel, is not fun. So we put it off until September and went for two...
Found this little place whilst mooching at the backend of Brongyntyn Hall; which is well underway in conversion to yuppie flats;
Not much to see really except wonderful mould and magical doorsI believe it is an old boathouse originally built in the 19th century and it backs onto the hall's man...
33 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe, you can see how nature is conquering everything back.
There was not a single tree in the square in front of the "Energetik" cultural center.
Lenina Avenue was a big street with extra lanes in each direction and an avenue in between.
The side to the...
First of a great day exploring yesterday.
Amazing millionaires mansion left abandoned, bitter sweet love story attached to this famous actor and actress owners ?
This former power station is located on a huge, still in operation, steel mill.
Some halls have not been entered for years.
What you find here is definitely industrial history and comes from the beginning of industrialization.
The steel mill was founded in 1873.
Another well visited place May 2019
Formerly it used to be some form of home for single mothers with children apparently from ireland (salvation army maternity home) , also kim catrell was apparently born there
Now the depressing bit
Two brothers were fined more than £82,000 after their...
Treading a well worn path to this behemoth of a building
The foundation stone for Greenbank Drive Synagogue was laid on 14 June 1936 by Baron Tobias Globe attended by the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, Dr J H Hertz. The building was consecrated on August 15 1937 and opened by Professor...
A short little report from a little while back.
Without going into too much detail this building is one of the more longer abandonments situated on the ground of a partially used hospital some where in the south.
The ground around the building has been flattened and at the time of our visit...
Built in the 18th century Minera Hall was the former family home of the Dutons a timber importing magnate whose buisness collapsed when japan invaded Burma in WW2 halting the teak trade
latterly in the later part of the 20th Century the hall became the villabe RBL club and now stands empty and...
The Site
Dating back to 1874 these works have produced sodium carbonate common in cleaning products, dyes, fertilizers and other such products.
The works have been operated under Brunner Mond, Imperial Chemical Industries, and TATA Chemical Europe. The works were also responsible for...
may 2019
Anzio Camp
The Anzio Camp is situated near Leek in Staffordshire.
The camp was first used by the US Army in 1943, to house troops.
In 1945/6 the camp was taken over by Polish troops.
After the war it was used as a civilian settlement by the Poles until 1963/4 when they were moved...
Came across Abandon Factory didnt know what it was at first, May 2019
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History
This colliery was opened in 1901 due to the increasing demand of coal in this heavy industrialized area of Germany. After that this coal mine grew rapidly in the amount of employees and the amount of coal that was made in this place, this complex made on its peak around 9000 tons coal...
Explored with my partner, who told me about this place, was completely unaware that i was passing it on the bus every day until she told me about it... Wasn't really expecting it to be that good but really enjoyed it. Didn't look like we were going to find a way in at first but i found what i...
First of two places we got onto that day, we had about 4 places in our sights & this was the only one that was on our list that we managed to get into. A great explore & a lot more to see than i was expecting. Most of the upper floors were fallen/falling through.
The person that told...
Before heading to this colliery, we had been viewing photos of the recent demolition. Images of headstocks lying crumpled on the ground didn't exactly give us much hope, but without any other options until much later in the day, we headed on to see if there was at least a scrap of something nice...
A nice local one today; had many a great night in here it closed in 2012 with the building of the new by pass killing trade
Only accessed the pub the adjoining function suite locked tight shut alas
Friday night in the adjoining converted barn was rock night in the 70s as a teenager