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High Royd's was a former psychiatric hospital which was opened on the 8th of October 1888 as the West Riding Pauper Lunatics Asylum, and designed by the then revered architect J. Vickers Edwards. It was designed on the broad arrow plan. The Victorians liked all things symmetrical :wink...

I know this place has been done, Do you rememebr the first time you got your dslr and you ignored the auto and spent more time faffin than photos??? Yup that was this explore... Not the hardest entry in the world.. still open btw :) The light in this place was awesome, even though there...

Joseph Heap (1762-1833) founded a rice mill in Liverpool in 1778 or 1780. Until about the 1880s,the firm owned its own vessels,known as the Diamond H line after their house flag,sailing between Liverpool & Australia,via Rangoon & the East Indies. The firm had several changes of...

Murphy's Machinery Established in 1930! Murphy's were industrial parts manufacturers who made tools, belt driven machinery, transmissions and electrical equipment. They specialized in items for tanners and leather manufactures. They finally hung up their tools around 2002. Visited with my...

Upon hearing about the demolition of Mansfield General, I had another look over the shots I have from there. A cracking hospital explore, closed for 20 years or so with plenty of decay and exploring goodness inside. I believe demo has started now which is a shame as the UK is about to lose...

Woop woop! First one that was open, I had previously tied one near Donnington and one in Gnosall to find welded lids... Seriously overgrown it took me over 20 mins to get the brambles off the sucker. Has a geocache in it and was flooded an inch. I laced the brambles back over so hopefully the...

This ones on my doorstep, spent many a summer playing manhunt in here as a kid! Not much left now, just the main building, tower and chapel inclusive, everywhere else is swarming with builders and secca and people living in the new housing estate and residential home... Gayness.. Main...

In between renovations we took a trip out to one of the many slate quarries. Maenoffren opened in 1800 and by 1861 was knocking out 400 tons of slate a year. At its peak the quarry employed over 420 people, half of whom worked underground. Like every other quarry demand for welsh slate slowed...

Bit of info: With a manufacturing history spanning some 65 years, Robinson Willey is one of the UK`s leading appliance manufacturers both in the UK and overseas. From its Liverpool manufacturing base, Robinson Willey produces a comprehensive range of gas wall heaters and gas fires...

Bit of History. George Barnsley and Sons Ltd. (founded 1836) They were in Cornish Place on the Don 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...

The first photograph is of women working at Vernon’s Pools in 1936. Football pools has started in 1923 when John Moores and two friends handed out 4000 coupons outside Old Trafford. Initially, the business was slow and John Moores bought out his two partners who had lost confidence in the...

On the West side of the Yorkshire Pennines sits the village of Diggle, which has a history of sheep farming and weaving. It's idyllic location is very popular with walkers, especially on the canal which runs parallel with the site. ​It was formerly known as the Dobcross Loom Works...

CRE industries, i know nothing about this place nor can i remember where it is other then in a tiny village in the middle of absolute nowhere! Visited with Maniac and Craig. Sorry about image quality, i think i was still on the sony at this point! WAY back in the day!! :) From what i...

After seeing posts about this location it became number 1 on my list to visit. It took me several weeks to locate, and its location has been kept tightly guarded, and quite rightly so, but I had to see this beauty for myself, and through hours and hours of work finally got a breakthrough to its...

Visited this site alone at dusk for an initial reccy, and found it wide open so had a look around. I got spooked as a thunderstorm started and there was evidence of very fresh activity in the house, and as light was falling I though sod this, Im getting out.

Lancashire church that has been unused for a few years. There has been some signs of metal theft, but on the whole the interior was in pretty good condition.

These pictures are from my first visit to this site in September 2012. The first holiday camp to be built at Plemont was the Jersey Jubilee Holiday camp, built in the early 1920s. The camp was used as a base for the forces, who damaged the camp to the extent that it was going to cost a fair...

Visited back in July 2013 with Urban witness. I cannot find much information on this only that it was a tavern as far back as 1872 before becoming a private home with attached farm shop and nurseries. The tavern itself closed its doors for the last time in 1974 .

I've been to this place 3 times now, so these are a mixture from those visits. Parts I only discovered on my most recent visit and I had a new lens to play with, plus showing some UrbExing friends around who hadn't been here before (one of whom hadn't done an asylum) gave me the perfect excuse...

Built in the chalk for the citizens of Portsmouth in the event of an air-raid during WW2, it's easily the best air-raid shelter i've visited, a true time capsule of which i can't convey the feelings that were stirred inside or how oppressive it might have felt back in the day. But armed with a...