Ok i was in Manchester looking at these (coz im a geek apparently )
http://ancoatspeeps.com/?p=home
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Now, in the same area is this.....
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which ive wanted to see for some years .....so i go on a mooch ,see the front door is open , pop my head inside and see a guy in a...
When I got my fisheye, and as I am from Norfolk one of the first photos I took with it was a tractor! I was quite pleased with the results so I thought I would have a wander about this site. All are processed from 3 handheld bracketed images. I know a bit lazy. Sorry there seems to be a bit of a...
Now then.
Recently Maniac, Frosty and I went out for a spot of Dover derping and this is "wot we done" ;)
South trollands #1:
Troll mills west:
Thanks to the guys for an entertaining evening out, and thanks to you for looking in,
R. Jewson
Better known as GKN Screw factory in the heart of the ever lovurley Brum :shock: splored with PS as always a brilliant adventure exploring the rat run of never ending tunnels under neath her...highlight of the day was with out a doubt turning roung and seeing a monkey dangling off a rope and...
George Barnsley and Sons Ltd was founded in 1836 and specialised in forge filing and cutting tools for leather workers and shoe makers. One George Barnsley was Master Cutler in 1883.
George Barnsley and Son is listed in the 1837 Sheffield directory as a file manufacture situated on Wheeldon...
Intresting place this,not huge for a hospital,and a little trashed in some parts....tripped a siolent alarm and secca booted me off,but they were sound...no externals im affraid,as i had to leave sharpish...
Thanks for looking... :thumb
A nice Sunday spend having a wander round the Potteries of stoke...a selection of my pics from..Ainsleys..Wetherbys and Tam Crown Works..all interesting sites with bits and bobs left behind..for some reason i have no externals aplolgies for that..on with the pics..
Explored with 2 non members
Well this was a fun explore, we didn't know which building it was so we ended up walking around the entire site getting zapped by electric fences which was hilarious to say the least and almost eaten by horses in the neighbouring field before getting in touch with NK...
A revisit was in order with Obscurity,Fortknox0 and frosty and this time Space Invader joined us for a look around
This is looking back along the Arp (tower hamlets tunnel) just before lagoon caves
Section leading to the tower hamlets tunnel from the lagoon caves
Now a few from in lagoon...
Well we were very disappointed with this mine due to not having our 4gas meter..... all i will say is if you go in FFS take a meter 30 yards in we could not breath hardly and that was just walking, the mine had NO air flow at all..... time for the pics
first the beach with the fossils...
This was our second visit to this area, i have no history on this place all i can tell you is it is a stone quarry with 4 stone mines within the faces, there was a rail line within the quarry which went down hill to the railway for off loading there stone.
on with the pics.
2 of the ways in...
Being right on are door step and hearing of plans to try and open them to the public we decided a local explore was in order ...
visited with wevsky obscurity and frosty ..
a little history..
The town's borough engineer and surveyor R.D. Brimmell conceived and planned a scheme for tunneling...
Hmmmmm after looking inside the Childrens Hospital Inside and out (now converted to a asian building) so nothing left at all in there...we headed over the road to St Catherines Hospital (for Cancer and Incurables), very easy access to this well nice place but no nice machinery left only Ooozzing...
About 5 years ago i heard of this tunnel in a small village a couple of miles away from me. And subsequently went and had a look for myself. Sadly at the time i didn't take a camera, or do much of a report. So 5 years later decided to go back, more to play, but hey ho thought il do a report...
Nortel acquired the Harlow laboratories, originally Standard Telecommunications Laboratories, in 1991 and continued to use the site for research and development in wireless telecommunication technologies. It was the site of Charles Kao's research in fibre optic communications.
This is their...
In January 1995 a small group of enthusiasts, brought together by their recognition of the rapidly approaching end of an era in travel around South London, formed a group to preserve examples of the EPB type trains. For nearly half a century these electric multiple units reliably carried...
Thornton Imperial Chinese Restaurant
On the way back home from my visit at Thornton Cemetery I shot past this until my brain kicked in gear and registered it as a derelict building tucked at the side of the road. So camera and gear ready off I whet for my quarry.....
May I take your...
I visited this hospital in December 2010 and enjoyed it so much that I returned in January 2011 to explore some more!!
Highwood Hospital was designed by Charles and William Henman who were commissioned by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to provide medical and
social conditions for poor children...
Right its somehting ive been meaning to have a look at and know i have im glad i did..visited with paulk silver rainbow and space invader
History has been covered a few time so im simply gunna put a link up to a site which covers it !
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/site ... ndex.shtml...