Why do you do it?

[zimbob]

For the scrap metal loots...

Pikeying Sites for the win

 

[Landsker]

for the photography, for the history and for the FUN!

 

[smileysal]

Because I'm nosey and want to know what something is, or what's behind that gate that they want to keep you out. (if that makes sense?).

Used to go out to airfields to airshows with my parents when I was tiny, and we'd accidentally, on purpose, wander about the airfield to parts where we weren't supposed to go as dad was nosey too. And as he worked on the railway, I got to spend hours in the engine shed at the rail depot he worked at, and he'd take me under the brand new engines and show me what bits and pieces of the engine were for. So now I;m interested in Railway stuff, and old airfields etc.

Mum used to take me out walking (again from being a baby lol), and she's as nosey as hell. Always wondering what was the other side of a gate that had keep out on, or a derelict building, farm, anything, and we'd go wandering around looking at the dereliction until someone would come and move us along.

Then when Butlin's FIley closed, spent hours over the years, noseying around there, parts of the place you couldn't look at when it was open, all the backstage and staff areas.

I've always been nosey, and I'm even worse now, wandering in and having a look at stuff. Just now that I take my camera with me, I've lost count of the places I've looked at when I was younger, but we didn't take a camera with us, and those places are now gone.

(hope I haven't gone off track, I'm good at that lmao).

 

[v-w-chick]

because it reminds my of when i was younger and i use to run away to get peace, go exploring with my mates, chill out in old buildings. use to spend hours searchin places and finding out what was there,why its derelict etc.

As i was explain my childhood to a mate which i type in then found this website. and really brang back memories and i knew i wanted to visit more place.
i know have my new canon and love photography, so thought why not put the two together
i like meeting new people and exploring what was once in our world.

 

[Winchester]

I like dead hospitals.

 

[JosephSpartan]

i'm not interested in the history of the places, neither am i interested in their futures, they are spaces between spaces, like dark matter, half forgotten but always there, always taking up space, always on a collective conscious.

Plus they look bloody cool!

 

[ImmortalShadow]

Through a friend, who I think is planning to join this forum. I saw her photo's of inside Derby Friargate station pre-fire and thought to myself "I really want to go!" A few months later, I was walking past the now demolished buildings on Kings Street with KingofDerby and we saw someone poking around. Soon, we were poking around ourselves. After, he mentioned two forums, one being being this one, for us to check out.

I've been addicted ever since and I keep infecting others

 

[J35 Draken]

Found a link to an urbex forum through an aviation forum and was really interested by what I saw. Found out an easy location fairly local to me in the shape of North Weald redoubt, made a trip there and was hooked.

 

[FieldyM]

This thread is filled with a romanticism of exploring..

Or mentions of an infection or an affliction....

Seriously... thts a bit weird you should seek some advice from a qualified member of the medical community.

 

[Gangeox]

For the art opportunites, I've always loved photography and strange things.
For the chance to see something that most young people just don't notice (factory in North Walsham. Was at college down the road for 3 years and none of my friends ever even noticed it existed. Having said that I had the same attitude to college...)
But mostly for the chance to be somewhere forbidden and unusual.
I guess I like the rush from "oh my god I can hear junkies"

And you get the chance to get your stars out!

 

[Pyroninja]

I like it simply to get away from the cotton wooled, health and safety saturated world in which we live where we aren't allowed to make our own decisions, roads and paths directing you, signs and markingd dictating what you can and can't do...When I get fed up with the clean, polished and presentable world then I like nothing more than to retreat to my own little world where there's nobody telling me what to do or where to go. In there you can do as you please, climb things, pick up, feel, smell whatever you want and decide where you want to go all at your own risk and judgement with nobody to stop you. I also just enjoy getting to see what's usually hidden from the public eye like the inside of dirty old factories, mills and power stations which are almost kept secret for god knows what reason....

 

[digitalman]

I explore derelict buildings to let them know they are not forgotten

 

[KingofDerby]

I have an interest in history (most of my summer is spent in the 18th century) and in the way buildings and societies develop and interact.

But mostly, it's a two fingered salute to my upbringing, going outside the paths that other people demand.

 

[Mimble]

For opportunities like yesterday.
A totally unplanned explore, meeting new people, and seeing a different side to a building I know well.
Plus seeing a piece of grafitti saying "tits". It will have to be done

 

[Sabtr]

I like it simply to get away from the cotton wooled, health and safety saturated world in which we live where we aren't allowed to make our own decisions, roads and paths directing you, signs and markingd dictating what you can and can't do...When I get fed up with the clean, polished and presentable world then I like nothing more than to retreat to my own little world where there's nobody telling me what to do or where to go. In there you can do as you please, climb things, pick up, feel, smell whatever you want and decide where you want to go all at your own risk and judgement with nobody to stop you. I also just enjoy getting to see what's usually hidden from the public eye like the inside of dirty old factories, mills and power stations which are almost kept secret for god knows what reason....

You would love to see in my garage.

 

[manof2worlds]

I spent a lot of years doing serious ghost-hunting (not the crap ***** Most Haunted stuff, I was doing it WAY before then) and there was always something missing (apart from the ghosts).

Urbex gives me that certain something. I'm still relatively new to the practical side of exploring, but for me it represents the challenge of getting into places you're not really supposed to be, seeing what's there and getting a picture or two. I love the rush of gaining access, I love the atmosphere and the smells of urban decay (apart from tramp piss and pidgeon **** of course, I'm not THAT weird) and above all, I love to feel the history of wherever I am.

And as a post early on said, I'm a nosy ****

mo2w

 

[Dystopia]

For inspiration for my stories on a post apocalypse world.

Another apocalypse fan!

 

[Trudger]

I have a shiny new law degree and I like the way I can put some people right with my new found knowledge, usually some dog walker who tells me I shouldn't be 'there'.
I am always on the lookout for 'investment property' so this covers me for all other situations.

Confidence is the key.


T

 

[foz101]

I do it so I can post sarcastic comments on exploring forums.

And also for the lulz

 

[Bunk3r]

Philippe Petit "There is no why"