General Urbex Photos Thread!

[nelly]

One from west park, i know its HDR so if you dont like it just skip past . My favourite shot ive done so farr

I like it!!!
A little subtle HDR is not always a bad thing!!!

 

[the|td4]

And they have just knocked this down, the old Mechanical & Electrical Engineers store for British Rail, Newcastle (and latterly Red Star parcels). I remember working in this place, it was full of old caverns under the station

Aw man !!!! I eyed that place for years and years but it always seemed locked up tight, that is a shame.

As for the caverns under the station, I have some info regarding that which I won't post anywhere public! PM me for details!

 

[terrier]

Hi there fellow explorers, I have had a bit of a knackered foot and back problem over the last few months so my exploring has taken a real nosedive, but back to fitness now so I will haul my lazy ass out and get some explores in shortly. Here are a few bits I have managed recently:

I have taken to documenting original shop fronts, given that they are prone to change much more frequently than most properties, this is an old butchers shop in the town I live in, it is original and untouched and I love it, it is currently for sale but check out that glazed bulls head!

Disused clothing factory also in Norton, its shored up really tightly, and due for demo soon to make way for an Aldi, which is right across the road from a Lidl, and just down the road from Netto Having said that, its a flaming eyesore!

cheers

Ian

Ian is this on the same road from corks and cans? im sure ive seen this but cant remember where, what a fantastic shop frontage! hope its preseved.
Terrier.

 

[Em_Ux]

Corset near Cambridge

I think that has to be the most random thing we have found on an explore so far! Oh that & the knicker tree outside too!

 

[penance]

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.

Quite possible, most Bristol hospitals kept them in post war years for just that use.
two North Bristol hospitals decomisioned theirs around 3 years ago.

 

[TK421]

Terrier, yes thats the very same shop mate, a real gem from the past.

TheTD4, I will send you a PM. I worked for a short period in that place many many years ago, it was very dark!

 

[terrier]

Thanks Tk im through there today, got friends that live in Settrington....gonna have a good look at it.

Terrier.

 

[MD]

here is one from me now filled in


4319025491_b9cf8e27a1_o by Mattdonut, on Flickr

 

[Foxylady]

A mini report.

Just thought I'd include this for anyone who's interested in, and has followed the demise of, the old Warners Holiday Camp / Lyme Bay Village site. Now being developed by (can hardly bring myself to type the name) Tes...urgh...coes, the *******s. lol.

The pipe across Harbour Road will be used to bring the majority of fill material into the site by sea, the site level to be raised to accommodate the development on the flood plain.

Another part of the pipeline across the old Racal Electrical site to the main site.

Bloody humungous rectangular area sectioned off ready to raise the level for the foundations.

Enjoyed taking those pics, especially as I had some unwelcome looks by guys carrying clipboards. I almost felt like thumbing my nose at them but I restrained myself and just grinned instead. Bitter much? No more than the rest of Seaton residents! Nuff said.

 

[highcannons]

I vote in favour!

Agree with initial sentiment, what else can you do with something like this? Don't be rude!
Thought this might be a good un, so set off firing camera as I went.....yeah, what a dump.....

Er, hang on! They look like new bags of coal......ooer! its not derelict (in the sense of abandoned) only in a sense of care......run away!

 

[highcannons]

Blagging it

One of those clip on ID thingies with a fancy card and your picture -say something to do with the press, or such and such research can help.....you can make ace ones on the pc! At least it gives a plausable story so things dont get silly......ooohh my secrets from a previous life...

A mini report.

Just thought I'd include this for anyone who's interested in, and has followed the demise of, the old Warners Holiday Camp / Lyme Bay Village site. Now being developed by (can hardly bring myself to type the name) Tes...urgh...coes, the *******s. lol.

The pipe across Harbour Road will be used to bring the majority of fill material into the site by sea, the site level to be raised to accommodate the development on the flood plain.

Another part of the pipeline across the old Racal Electrical site to the main site.

Bloody humungous rectangular area sectioned off ready to raise the level for the foundations.

Enjoyed taking those pics, especially as I had some unwelcome looks by guys carrying clipboards. I almost felt like thumbing my nose at them but I restrained myself and just grinned instead. Bitter much? No more than the rest of Seaton residents! Nuff said.

 

[mookster]

628 Western Avenue, London. No other information than that and an old Exel Logistics poster inside. External stairs demolished after a squatter fell off the roof in 2003 so unfortunately only the basement and ground floor are accessible, and there is literally nothing inside except an impressive skate park built by kids, the still-wet beer spill, unused cigs and an unopened cereal bar says to me they were there the previous night!

 

[The Archivist]

I've enjoyed reading the minio-reports on this thread and thought it was about time I added my own. I find derelict houses on a weekly basis here in Wales and occasionally I get to stop and take a look:

Esgair Hir, Morfa Bychan
A small farm in the shadow of the huge mast on the way to/from Aberystwyth. Almost got stampeded by cows on the way here. Not much to see, but some interesting meat curing hooks in the kitchen.

Fronfelen, Rhydgaled
Abandoned for rather obvious reasons (massive crack in the end wall). I'd have liked a shot of the front, but it's overlooked by an occupied house and a busy road

Morfa Uchaf, Llanon
Been driving past this place for about 5 years but haven't been able to stop due to it being on a bend of a very busy road. Last week I finally found a footpath nearby and fought through the nettles to get in.

Penglais Fach, Aberystwyth
Farmhouse in the middle of Aberystwyth Golf Course. Sadly utterly trashed by local yobs and sporting some very dodgy floors.

Thanks for reading, hope I've not bored you all too much.

 

[The_Revolution]

A digger at night.
Dene quarry, Cromford, Derbyshire.

 

[mookster]

Abandoned pro-hobo trip to GE Thorn, due to the sheer amount of demolition going on on-site and workers camped out in caravans. Didn't want to have to dodge the diggers early in the morning.

 

[MD]

firewatch by M D Allen, on Flickr


Bricks by M D Allen, on Flickr
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[jjandellis]

Chippenham beautiful building

I saw this peeping through the trees at me and dived in to take a peek,I didn't enter this as a full report as I didn't think I had enough photos or history, now I know I face a serious amount of criticism for that but I think its a beautiful building and worth having a look at, goodness knows what the future hold for it,Its next to the hospital and has a few nasty office type buildings around it. I am just about to go off on a walk around Scotland for the weekend so hopefully there will be some juicy stuff to share with you soon !!!!!

 

[MD]

deco1 by M D Allen, on Flickr​

 

[filmknight]

Weatherby Castle Obelisk

Weatherby Castle is an Ironage Hillfort near Tolpuddle, Dorset. The Obelisk at the top was built by a landowner, Edmund Morton Pleydell, in 1761. This Folly would have been clearly visible from his home at Milborne House.

I found this on one of my drives around dorset armed with a mapbook and a full tank of fuel!


hosting images

 

[krela]

Filmknight I moved your post here because a single photo isn't really a [ame="http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=16286"]suitable location report[/ame].

Edit: Just to be a true pedant an obelisk couldn't really be considered a folly, if anything it's a sculpture. I'm so sad lol.