My New Flat!, AB25, Aberdeen.

Urbex on ma doorstep

Peter & I got the keys to our new flat a few days ago and OOOH the huffing and puffing of me lugging boxes up and down was making me in a bad mood.

I went for a wander and found a door at the back of the flats which was half open and stacked up to the roof was those black recycling boxes filled with rubbish.
HMMmm I thought, is this stairs down to a cellar?
Well, the stairs you could hardly see, I guess over the years folk had chucked rubbish down them, there was cardboard boxes, an old computer and a bath!!
But I trampled my way down and shreiked with joy!

I'd found a mini Westhall!!! ... well not really but I just let my imagination think I had.
My basement is better than some explores i've been on *cough* ropeworks and now I can have you all over and not worry about being caught.... because it's MINE!!! YAY

The Flat. Comlete with my new car. HAD to get that in there



The stairwell down to mini Westhall



OK, the first room you come across.
I think kitchen, it has some taps near the window.



More rooms - 2 were completley dark and all I had was the flash of my camera.
They were filled with coal and there were slats where the coal man back in the day maybe put the coal down.



Lovely toilet with amazing wallpaper and tiling



Shower complete with soap and shampoo



Some old bottles, not sure what the green one is, white one is a potion for flaky skin.



A calendar from 1975



And some paint!



There were lots more old bottles and rusty contraptions ..
I shall be going back tonight to investigate more and once I'm all moved in, I shall get you all over for the flat warming. Torch essential.

Cool

When I was a kid, my best friend lived in a 5-storey house in Dowanhill, and it was a bit like that - the front door was on the middle floor and they lived on the top three floors - the lower floors were old servants quarters and hadn't been touched for 50 years. Great fun to explore - there's something magical about secret basements.

Best one, though, is Roslin Castle - you can rent the house on top, and it's built on a pillar of rock - go through a small door and the steps go down and down to 3 or 4 levels of basement under the house...

:shocked: That's soooo cool! When can we all come over for a look around your very own derelict site?!

Everybody round for an explore at the weekend.

Get the kettle on.

you know that will get very messy when u have a house party you will be finding house party casualty's for the next week down there

You shouldn't go there! Your other mother will sew buttons on your eyes.:arghh: Or if you haven't seen or read Coraline you might just get away with it.

My parent's neighbour used to have tiles like that in her kitchen.

When I was young a few of my friends had cellars in their houses but I didn't because my house was built in the 1970s.

When I moved into my flat I hoped for some places to explore, but the conversion from a late Victorian Salvation Army hall was an almost total rebuild apart from the facade.

There are supposed to be some crawl spaces on the upper floors but I need to go into someone's flat to access them.

The bin & meter rooms don't give much potential.

Classy new flat Gorecki

You got rid of your dying Leon then?
Your basement looks interesting, it looks almost liveable, I wonder why it hasn't been renovated in the past 30 odd years.

What a fantastic find. Awesome!

What was the old computer like? Any photos of. I'm a retro computer geek, and collect old computers.

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You got rid of your dying Leon then?
Your basement looks interesting, it looks almost liveable, I wonder why it hasn't been renovated in the past 30 odd years.

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Yeah it properly died, SO much things wrong with it, ask Bones!!

You are more than welcome to kip down there!
If you stick your head out a small hole, you can see Richard's Hosepipe Tower!
Someone has stuck a HUGE union jack on there just now :S

Potter I will get you a pic of the old pc!

Nicely done I think urbex sites should be part of the sales brochure

Loving your shower. Bet they dont come cheap. After all that hauling of your furniture you can go in there, relax as the lime green shimmer of that beautiful shower cubicle gently closes your eyes, not forgetting that you will be a changed woman once you use that flakey skin ointment (its of personal preference).

Best of luck with the flat,

jack

wooohoo that is soooo kool. i live next to a derelict building
did you not know before hand?

that is ace ! some possibilities:
a) charge a small fee for explores,
b) restore it and sub-let it out !

I live in a modern house but would love to live in an interesting old building !


T

Sweet :thumb:

Trust you to get a place with it's own in-built explore

New wheels look good too

Thanks. I look forward to seeing a pic of that old PC.

What kind of car did you get?

The one in the picture!

A Freelander?