Day out with Antony
:) Background;
Ladybower Reservoir is a large Y-shaped reservoir, the lowest of three in the Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire, England. The River Ashop flows into the reservoir from the west; the River Derwent flows south, initially through Howden Reservoir, then Derwent...
The popular code name for this is House of Tears however I have taken the liberty of using a different one.
Firstly, as I personally knew some of the last family who lived there and secondly I feel it gives a misleading impression of the place.
The main building was built around 1735 however...
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ok, been a while since I posted from this trip.
Day 3, after a very messy night involving several bottles of "baron" red wine, our motley crew awoke.
Where were we going ?? The night before had been frantic messages home and abroad trying to figure out if the place was still open...
I had been wanting to go here for a while. Its quite well sealed and the police actually train there dogs here. From the outside the building shows a lot of promise, sadly its not as good inside as you may expect but it is in stunning condition. A lick of paint on the outside and it be as good...
Day 2 of the tour..........
After the win that was the CDC we decided to do 2 residential places, our first place was suspended due to the stupid amount of traffic outside of it, so we thought we would do Tapioca whilst waiting for the traffic to die down.
For me this was one of favourite...
Day 2 of the tour
After a very quiet night we were all up at 5am for a 60 minute drive (why is everything in Belgium 60 mins away)
Parking in a very conveniently situated carpark we done a brisk hop skip and jump and we were in.
Pitch black we made our way down to the basement for an hours...
On a crisp friday 3 men and a little lady (mysellf and members proj3ctm4yh3m, Mr Dystopia and Lowri Jen 37) boarded a ferry from Newcastle heading to Amsterdam.
The start of an epic 3 days of exploring with 8 locations done and no fails :)
We met some brilliant folk and had an absolute...
A small but still quite ok location..
we unfortunately only had about 25 minutes to explore this one, (including parking and finding our way in..) since we had a meet about an hour later and 70km further to explore the lime factory together with some polish guys..
So to save time I decided to...