Biggest Regrets

[Speed]

I can think of a couple.. I guess there's loads more if i think about it..

1. Not spending more time at Longbridge - Moral: put the effort in when needed!! dont let money/time issues make you miss out on stuff, it wont be there tomorrow!

2. Not seeing the Newcastle Brown brewery - Moral: Dont ever assume other people have done a good job of exploring and photographing a place.. Even if it looks **** go anyway! So many people are useless at finding the good stuff..

 

[The Archivist]

Been exploring for close to 7 years - a lot of fond memories of places now gone and only a few regrets - I don't like to dwell on the past too much, but:

1. Not having a proper tripod or camera until a couple of years ago - my photos suffered muchly
2. Not getting better pics of Beedingwood before it was razed
3. Still not having gotten round to doing Dinorwic Quarry
4. Missing out on most of Netherne and St. David's (Carmarthen) and all of Hellingly and Cane Hill
5. Not being old/brave enough to see the submarines, tanks &c at Pound's Yard in Portsmouth before they were all scrapped
6. Naïvely, not testing the floor on one memorable occasion in West Park a couple of years ago - I fell straight through, luckily only a 4' drop instead of the 12' ones in some wards, but it hurt for weeks - lesson learned.

 

[scribble]

I just love the positioning of Poole power station on that photo. It should be owned by Willy Wonka.

 

[dobbo79]

My biggest regret is definately not taking pics of the derelict Filey Butlins Campsite. My dad worked for a contractors in Hunmanby who got hte contract to clear the roads ready for the demo lads going in. I went with him one afternoon and rode round on the tractor clearing debris (i was about 10 at the time). Really wished now we had taken a camera but i guess you don't think...

I remember sitting on one of the big blue fountain things waiting patiently for dad to come back round with the tractor as he had let me out so i could wander....see, i started exploring at an early age

Also i haven't done any Asylum explores yet as we are limited up here - De La Pole at Hull was probably the closest but that was flattened over 10 years back

 

[Snips86x]

missed the boat to hellingly ............... gutted ..... still need to do a big asylum before they are all gone

Still wish I'd gotten a visit it there before it was demolished

 

[Ubermutant]

Not looking round the Tricorn center in Portsmouth. I was there not long before it closed for good, before it was all borded up and the carparks were closed. Would loved to have had a look round inside that place, there seems to be almost nothing in print or on the web about what was a great building.

 

[themousepolice]

oh so many

a long list of places i should of gone to.

for now the ones at the for front of my mind....

Landor Cartons. cardbord box manufactorers in Birmingham.
Supermarine. southampton.
Tinsley traction depot. south yorkshire
BTH/AEI/GEC.Rugby
The Vulcan Foundary. Newton -le- Willows
Bordesley bus depot & cinema (opposite each other ) Birmingham
Bass maltings. Burton on Trent.
British Libary stores/warehouse. Somerstown/St Pancras London
The Dick Kerr works. Preston

 

[Richard Davies]

Not looking round the Tricorn center in Portsmouth. I was there not long before it closed for good, before it was all borded up and the carparks were closed. Would loved to have had a look round inside that place, there seems to be almost nothing in print or on the web about what was a great building.

It was the Tricorn that got me into Uxbexing, that & the Gateshead car park.

 

[ImmortalShadow]

This is a general post...my regret (or one of) is not getting into urbex when I first came to Derby in 2005 - it would've been great to see the GNR Warehouse more intact than it is now, and seeing inside the Magistrate's Court amoungst other things. Apparently there was quite a lot of good stuff to urbex in Derby back then.

 

[waley_bean]

Not visiting Denbigh. I also wish I had got into Urbanx a long time ago so I could have seen many of the buildings which have since been demolished.

 

[Snips86x]

I would have to agree with Waley about getting into Urbex earlier, but also I wish I'd been able to visit Hellingly a few years ago. Before the entire place got trashed and demolished.

 

[ChrisR]

It was the Tricorn that got me into Uxbexing, that & the Gateshead car park.

In that case, got any photos?

 

[mookster]

Not visiting Denbigh.

Luckily it's not too late to visit Denbigh!

 

[lost]

Shitehole.

 

[waley_bean]

Luckily it's not too late to visit Denbigh!

It's in chaos though isn't it? I wanted to see it as it was before it got totally trashed. I like natural degradation but not vandalism and demolition.

 

[Cuban B.]

All the asylums that were gone before my time.

 

[John_D]

Not having a camera (or the inclination to document such stuff) when I explored RAF Trelever about 50 years ago, only a year or two after it was shut down, there were still security posters on the walls of the bunker and odds and ends on and in the desks that were still there. Also a similar regret for THIS PLACE first explored in the late 1960's when it was totally complete and you could wander all over it, upstairs and down

 

[krela]

My biggest regret is that they haven't knocked down or converted all the asylums yet.

:icon_evil

:jimlad:

 

[imyimyimy]

The Superbowl in my local area i guess and Drakelow Powerstation, always been meaning to check that powerstation out

 

[32nd_Degree]

My biggest regrets? Taking things for granted. Thinking that just because a building's been around for 50 years it will still be there. Thinking that all human nature is inherently bad...including myself. Believing that post modernist Bauhaus fake buildings were the wave of the future. Not speaking against huge Stalinist style concrete government buildings...those monstrosities take FOREVER to go away, and there's nothing to photograph except...concrete.