1st time explores

[nivlac]

hey everyone did my 1st time expolre today only a short one and will be going back as was a spur of the moment thing cuz keep saying i going to do it but never get round to it, i went aston hall mental hosptial, where was your 1st time and how did you feel?

also does anyone know if anybody ever bought this property?

 

[nij4829]

My first explore was a pill box up near seahouses/craster when I was a little un.
MY first 'proper' urbex would be a culvert near Bingley.

 

[Mad Larkin]

denbigh asylum was my 1st and it was awesome

 

[echo.]

Hey chap!

My first Reccy was Fort Bovisands, Made it to the top too

The more you do them and the bigger the challange the more you start to sit there and itch for the next one!

 

[Caveman]

The first that I can remember was sliding through one of the observation slits of the Navy observation tower at Noirmont Point in Jersey when I was about 10...I still have the scratches on my belt buckle.

 

[Incognito]

Taddiport Creamery was my first proper urbex and was great until someone came walking into the site, thankfully it was just a friendly local taking a short cut. He was actually quite useful and gave us some good info on the place.

 

[couscous]

I visited many a WW tunnel, bomb shelter, hospital and Drop Redoubt and the batteries in St Margarates and Dover. The adrenaline you get out of it is unbelievable. Scary but awesome!

 

[mookster]

Hellingly asylum at the beginning of June last year, followed the next day by Fullers Earth. I'll never forget the feeling I got the moment I stepped foot inside Hellingly the first time.

 

[godzilla73]

I visited many a WW tunnel, bomb shelter, hospital and Drop Redoubt and the batteries in St Margarates and Dover. The adrenaline you get out of it is unbelievable. Scary but awesome!

Hmmm...where are we allowed to start. Essex pillboxes 1979? The Drop redoubt in 1986 when the scaffold bridge was still in place from the outer moat to the roof casemates. Dumpy after it was closed in the mid-eighties? (The tunnels were full of chairs.....) The thing is, we never called it urbex then, and of course we we never scared, mostly because we were too stupid. Aaah, the naivety of youth.
GDZ

 

[derelicthunter]

my 1st was barnes hospital in stockport and it was epic been there a few times now u gotta see it its amazing

 

[Mad Larkin]

my 1st was barnes hospital in stockport and it was epic been there a few times now u gotta see it its amazing

pics or it never happened ;]

 

[Zotez]

Parents took me to see some abandoned houses years ago (the same as LiamWG reported on, but when they were in much better condition!), grew up around pillboxes and greenham common so went on the fireplane and in all the pillboxes etc when I was younger.

First explore where I actually wore a backpack and carried a torch was West Park, good enough for 6 visits!

 

[mookster]

First pic I ever took on an explore...diving through the bushes on The Drive on the approach to Hellingly, seeing the old power line poles for the old railway and eventually emerging with Park House sitting broodily in front of us, no maps, no tripods, no idea what we'd face...then to finally get in, a feeling I won't forget.

 

[ceejam]

My first proper explore was Mid Wales hospital Talgarth, that place just blew me away.
The sad part is seeing it now, raped, rotton and unlikely to be with us for much longer.

 

[Munchh]

First time and how did it feel?.................... Well, I had a quick look around the womb on the way out but ended up getting my arse slapped by the seccas so I was a bit hacked off as it happens.

Circa 1971 (yes I was 9) abandoned bowling green and an air raid shelter in the town I grew up in, Wokingham, Berkshire. I don't have any pics to prove it though as we were still using this,

and our parents, if they were lucky enough, were driving round in one of these,

 

[ceejam]

What a beast of a car.

 

[flava]

My first was St Lawrences Asylum Bodmin that hall is stunning although it got cut short i have been back and had some major WIN!!!!

 

[KooK.]

First ever one was when I was about 10/11 and went into some houses that they started converting, but never finished in Lulworth. My first proper explore was High Royds, gots chucked out after only seeing the pharmacy and the art room though!

 

[klempner69]

My first recording of a derelict place:Chiseldon army camp 1974



The second,Ogbourne camp 1978

 

[jjstenso]

Lovely shots Klempner, I love seeing these snapshots of time that are just snapped rather than composed, the second one in particular.

My first explores were with my Dad in about 1988. We used to live within sight of the blast furnace at Redcar and there were numerous, enormous derelict storage warehouses for wide gauge plates and beams. They are long gone now and have left only scarred and empty land. It started of the fascination for things abandoned... I wish dad had utilized his Pentax K1000 to document our explores of that time.