General Urbex Photos Thread!

[TK421]

I was over in the North West yesterday visiting a truck graveyard, couldn't resist visiting a few places in Manchester whilst I was in the area. I did not go into any of these, being a weekday, and hundereds of Police for the Labour conference, I didn't fancy joining George Michael, if you catch my drift

Guardian Exhange George St Entrance - high security indeed:

Arty shot of the Odeon:

Tourist trap 'No 2 Harter St', stunning building, and I was being watched by the Chinese whilst taking this (it's in Chinatown!)

Manchester Mayfield station:

Foden graveyard (with the kind permission of the owner):

A good day, summed up as 'lots of Fodens, lots of dereliction, and twice being propositioned by 'ladies of the night' whilst photographing Mayfield, now I bet that ranks as an unusual day in anyones books, all good stuff

 

[Foxylady]

Gorgeous buildings and pics, TK. Totally love the 'Chinatown' one...nicely appropriate colour, too.

 

[TK421]

Why thank you kind foxylady

 

[mark-madden]

derelict/abandoned light ship

Prob one of my fave pictures even taken. This is the light ship in grays,essex. hope you like.

for info please dont ask in post send via private message.

 

[hydealfred]

Nice shot - got anymore ???

 

[Caveman]

What a great place to put the odd pics that I have from my travels around the world. I still have much to do to scan in the pics that I have so don't anybody hold your breath for the moment.

Thanks to all posters in this section. It's taken me quite a while to work my way through so much on this thread.

 

[DigitalNoise]

It's been a while since Ive posted a report on here, Ive got a few to work on, but for now I'll leave you with a shot of Fort National, a Vauban fort built in 1689 to defend the French port of St Malo.

Fort National, St Malo by Digital Noise Photography, on Flickr

 

[Caveman]

Crikey...I can remember sailing past that fort on my way in & out of St.Malo many moons ago. I always wanted to go to Cezembre as well, but for years visitors were trampling all over live ammo that was unexploded from the American attack in 1944...without realising. The French Army closed the island off, but left countless pieces of artillery as it was left when the Germans vacated the place. The Citadel is also worth visiting as it has miles of underground tunnels & many old guns are still in place.

I'll go back one day.

 

[DigitalNoise]

Ditto, I would have loved to have been able to get onto Cezembre; apparently the most bombed and shelled area on the planet. We had to settle for the rest, which weren't bad consolations. We spent several days camping in the citadel, so one day you'll see a report on it, once Ive put all this info together. What a place!

Untitled by Digital Noise Photography, on Flickr

 

[theoss]

Information required on this siren if anyone knows anything about such things;


DSCF2214[1] by theoss, on Flickr

 

[Mad Larkin]

it makes loud noises to alert people to something they should really know about asap

 

[Engineer]

Siren.

For starters.

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_defense_siren[/ame]


There was a good write-up on UK types somewhere, lost the link though!

 

[oldscrote]

Information required on this siren if anyone knows anything about such things;


DSCF2214[1] by theoss, on Flickr

Here's another siren at Manston in Kent

http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=3031.0

 

[krela]

Information required on this siren if anyone knows anything about such things;


DSCF2214[1] by theoss, on Flickr

Without context it's impossible to say. Not all sirens are early warning civil defence sirens, in fact very few of them are.

 

[theoss]

Could they also be used as part of a fire alarm? The one in the picture is located at a site which was once railway workshops and stores.

 

[krela]

I've never come across one used as a fire alarm but that doesn't mean it's not possible. They are commonly used on industrial sites for chemical spill/leak warnings etc.

 

[Scaramanger]

Run Down Old cottages In deepest dark Cornwall

Might as well chuck a couple in the mix...

First shot is an abandoned 1 up 1 down cottage. Downstairs is a little untidy. Upstairs, well I darn't tread on the floorboards to be honest but there was a nice 60's style tv up there..

2nd pic was the next cottage along. People left and didn't take the cooker !!

And for what its worth I rekon this is the friendliest urbex forum going. Some others have very harsh mods...

 

[Jondoe_264]

A few recent London drain pics . . . I can't recall if I've posted them previously? Apologies if I have.

 

[ceejam]

^^^^ Wow they are fantastic.

 

[LiamWg]

agreed with ceejam those shote are awsome mate! the drain looks great. Never done anything underground but your shots has made me want to!