Cool pics of urban exploring, abandoned machines and stuff
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I started a thread here:
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0... Russian Stuff (Picture heavy)...&mid=73101
If anybody is interested in old abandoned Russian stuff (and some not so abandoned). It's situated just behind my current job site.
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0... Russian Stuff (Picture heavy)...&mid=73101
If anybody is interested in old abandoned Russian stuff (and some not so abandoned). It's situated just behind my current job site.
TVR Moneypit said:
Dr Imran T said:
Taken on my camera phone
I've passed over those before, (or at least something very simular), but cant remember where.Where are they, and what are they for?
Mod edit : 28dayslater link (Note if you link to that site they serve up nasty images, so we don't)
-Sorry Mods...
http://www.undergroundkent.co.uk/maunsell_towers.h...
I've got a book about the stories of blokes who served on them. They were amongst the first to see V1 Doodlebugs drone by and shot down a few aircrft.
Edited by captainzep on Saturday 12th June 07:21
Edited by ThatPhilBrettGuy on Saturday 12th June 07:44
Edited by captainzep on Sunday 13th June 14:49
Ayahuasca said:
US Civil War Submarine on a beach in Panama
There was a program on Discovery about that a couple of months ago, it was designed for harvesting pearls. Didn't work too well as the sub had to be presurised to the same pressure as the water for the hatches to be opened which led to the crew getting the bends.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_Marine_Explorer
...Mole... said:
There's a big stately home not far from where I live, Abney Hall, that at one point used to belong to Oswald Moseley. It's a conference centre nowadays, but it ain't half sinister. Back in 1995 some UrbExers were killed when they discovered a terrifying trap hidden in the garden - what looks like some overgrown steps down to a little stream had a hinge in the middle of them, depositing them in a fast-flowing underground water course, in which they drowned. I know Moseley was a bit of a nutter, but this must've been commissioned by one of his ancestors. I've also found a small gravestone for what must be a baby or small child, Duchess someoneorother, underneath a tree, covered in weeds.
Not a nice place to be on your own, especially when it's getting dark. God knows how many Nazis he entertained there.
There's also an interesting story a friend of mine who went to Loughborough university relayed to me, although unfortunately he has the photos from it and I don't.
His halls were out in the sticks, and off his campus was an overgrown road leading off into the countryside, with none of the streetlights working. It wasn't on his campus map so he and some mates explored it one night.
They encountered an abandoned Cold War era army base. And when I say abandoned I mean left very very suddenly one day in 1973 if the newspapers left on someone's desk were anything to go by. They found uniforms hanging on doors, boots under desks, weapons galore (including missiles), some trucks, and slightly more forlorn, disturbing things like a fridge full of long-rotten food, unwashed coffee cups in the sink, that sort of thing. The photos look like a level from Half Life.
One of them took some bullets as a souvenir, then when they were larking about taking photos of each other pretending to shoot each other on the firing range, they heard a loud bang from the building and what looked like a light on in one of the upper floors, shat themselves and legged it.
A week later, one weekend, a whole load of army trucks came thundering past their windows and when they went back to the base it'd been flattened and a high-security perimeter set up with razor wire and electric fences.
Twincam16 said:
Pothole said:
we NEED to see those photos!
I know! Annoyingly he's not on PH and I saw them on the screen on the back of his camera. I've tried to persuade him to upload them but I think he's genuinely scared of being 'tracked down' and prosecuted.Twincam16 said:
Pothole said:
we NEED to see those photos!
I know! Annoyingly he's not on PH and I saw them on the screen on the back of his camera. I've tried to persuade him to upload them but I think he's genuinely scared of being 'tracked down' and prosecuted.Sarkmeister said:
How long ago was this Lboro discovery?
I went to Loughborough, and its surrounded on all sides apart from one by housing estates. The only open side is towards the motorway where British Gas are based.
Would've been either the '02-'03 or '03-'04 term. Apparently his halls weren't part of the main campus, but a bit further out, on land apparently reclaimed from old army barracks (which explains the base).I went to Loughborough, and its surrounded on all sides apart from one by housing estates. The only open side is towards the motorway where British Gas are based.
Sarkmeister said:
How long ago was this Lboro discovery?
I went to Loughborough, and its surrounded on all sides apart from one by housing estates. The only open side is towards the motorway where British Gas are based.
Agreed - sounds a bit like b*llocks to me. I was there about 10yrs ago, and nothing like this was ever mentioned, in rumour or otherwise. Also, none of the halls that I knew of were sufficiently 'in the wilderness' to have been anywhere near something like this. Loughborough, despite being a relatively small town, is still built-up enough for something like this not to have gone un-noticed - and, all off-campus halls are still within the confines of the village itself, meaning that this 'base' would have been within spitting distance of 60k people (plus 20-odd-k students).I went to Loughborough, and its surrounded on all sides apart from one by housing estates. The only open side is towards the motorway where British Gas are based.
Students, being the inquisitive and time-rich little blighters that they are, would have probably found something like this a thousand times over in the 30-odd years that this 'mate' claims it had lain dormant.
Sorry, until I see photos, I'm putting this one down as a hoax.
Edited by Dave200 on Monday 19th July 15:36
Robb F said:
I'm gonna need to see some Bird's and some pictures 
Genuinely interested.
Love the idea of this...Genuinely interested.
But just cant see it. How can a whole base be left "Marien Celeste" style? i can sort of magine it happening in the former USSR but not here...especially leaving arms and ammunition about. From my little insight into the forces i have come to know that everything is on an inventory and everthing must be accounted for...especially bang sticks.
Just can't see the senior officer tellng his juniors "right chaps, we're off, sharpish. Get the men in the trucks and be good to go in 10"
Edited by theironduke on Monday 19th July 17:12
Dave200 said:
Sarkmeister said:
How long ago was this Lboro discovery?
I went to Loughborough, and its surrounded on all sides apart from one by housing estates. The only open side is towards the motorway where British Gas are based.
Agreed - sounds a bit like b*llocks to me. I was there about 10yrs ago, and nothing like this was ever mentioned, in rumour or otherwise. Also, none of the halls that I knew of were sufficiently 'in the wilderness' to have been anywhere near something like this. Loughborough, despite being a relatively small town, is still built-up enough for something like this not to have gone un-noticed - and, all off-campus halls are still within the confines of the village itself, meaning that this 'base' would have been within spitting distance of 60k people (plus 20-odd-k students).I went to Loughborough, and its surrounded on all sides apart from one by housing estates. The only open side is towards the motorway where British Gas are based.
Students, being the inquisitive and time-rich little blighters that they are, would have probably found something like this a thousand times over in the 30-odd years that this 'mate' claims it had lain dormant.
Sorry, until I see photos, I'm putting this one down as a hoax.
Edited by Dave200 on Monday 19th July 15:36
The kit has to be accounted for so for a base to be suddenly abandoned leaving live weapons behind is in the realms of unbelievable unless they weren't actually live weapons but some sort of mock ups that the military often use for exercises or demos.
The pics would help us see what the score is!
Ordinary_Chap said:
Dave200 said:
Sarkmeister said:
How long ago was this Lboro discovery?
I went to Loughborough, and its surrounded on all sides apart from one by housing estates. The only open side is towards the motorway where British Gas are based.
Agreed - sounds a bit like b*llocks to me. I was there about 10yrs ago, and nothing like this was ever mentioned, in rumour or otherwise. Also, none of the halls that I knew of were sufficiently 'in the wilderness' to have been anywhere near something like this. Loughborough, despite being a relatively small town, is still built-up enough for something like this not to have gone un-noticed - and, all off-campus halls are still within the confines of the village itself, meaning that this 'base' would have been within spitting distance of 60k people (plus 20-odd-k students).I went to Loughborough, and its surrounded on all sides apart from one by housing estates. The only open side is towards the motorway where British Gas are based.
Students, being the inquisitive and time-rich little blighters that they are, would have probably found something like this a thousand times over in the 30-odd years that this 'mate' claims it had lain dormant.
Sorry, until I see photos, I'm putting this one down as a hoax.
Edited by Dave200 on Monday 19th July 15:36
The kit has to be accounted for so for a base to be suddenly abandoned leaving live weapons behind is in the realms of unbelievable unless they weren't actually live weapons but some sort of mock ups that the military often use for exercises or demos.
The pics would help us see what the score is!
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