Cool pics of urban exploring, abandoned machines and stuff

[Pablo16v]

Morningside said:

^^^^ I really, really want to buy that place.

I wouldn't mind it myself. It's still up for sale and I found a site on google which has a bit moe info on it. Pretty interesting stuff.

http://www.aspc.co.uk/cgi-bin/public/SINGLE?ID=281...

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/i/inverbervie/...

[Dodgey_Rog]

Jackleman said:

Fordo said:

just stumbled across this thread- some facinating pictures.



Anyone heard about no mans land fort, out at sea?


now this would make an awesome urban exploration:



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-468609/Man...





Anyone want to get a rowing boat and some cameras?...

Edited by Fordo on Thursday 29th July 12:27

It was either this fort or http://www.amazingretreats.com/spitbankfort/ Spitbank fort that my friends dad bought quite a few years back and turned it in to a luxury bond style pad. You can stay on Spitbank fort according to that website.

I stumbled across this on the Savills website some years back, the people that owned it at the time had a problem with a bug which was making people sick? Rumour has it the company went into liquidation as it failed to attract the wedding clientele as a venue, then the guy that bought borrowed the money from a company which went bust, he then decided that he still owned it, barricaded himself in as a protest and then got evicted via the law courts.

Apparently it was up for sale for £4m and sold back in March for £900k! A bargain for what you get, needs a little work and someone with a helicopter. Fascinating place, I actually sailed past it back in 2005, got close to it and found it quite charming.

[nonuts]

Morningside said:

^^^^ I really, really want to buy that place.

I wish I had the money, would buy that in a heartbeat even though it's the wrong end of the country for me!

[BigS]

Alfa numeric said:

BigS said:

Stedman said:

LukeBird said:

Those train pics!

+1!

+2, have you got any more info on the place?

Thanks all! Unfortunately not- I've got a photo of the station with the town name on it somewhere, I'll have to dig it out. It's in the heart of the Atacama Desert, and for a brief period about 100 years ago they had a gold rush. Nearby is a graveyard full of Dutch and German prospectors, most under 25, who often spent more time crossing the Atlantic than they did actually mining for gold. the tour I did was a backpacker one rather than a Kuoni-type and I think the only reason we went there was because the tour guide or driver was a mate of the station manager, it's not open to the public as the railway next to it is still used.

That'd be great if you can find the name of the town, I can at least track it down on Google Earth then

[Ayahuasca]

BigS said:

Alfa numeric said:

BigS said:

Stedman said:

LukeBird said:

Those train pics!

+1!

+2, have you got any more info on the place?

Thanks all! Unfortunately not- I've got a photo of the station with the town name on it somewhere, I'll have to dig it out. It's in the heart of the Atacama Desert, and for a brief period about 100 years ago they had a gold rush. Nearby is a graveyard full of Dutch and German prospectors, most under 25, who often spent more time crossing the Atlantic than they did actually mining for gold. the tour I did was a backpacker one rather than a Kuoni-type and I think the only reason we went there was because the tour guide or driver was a mate of the station manager, it's not open to the public as the railway next to it is still used.

That'd be great if you can find the name of the town, I can at least track it down on Google Earth then

Google is your friend. Baquedano, Chile.

[llewop]

Jackleman said:

Fordo said:

just stumbled across this thread- some facinating pictures.



Anyone heard about no mans land fort, out at sea?


now this would make an awesome urban exploration:



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-468609/Man...





Anyone want to get a rowing boat and some cameras?...

Edited by Fordo on Thursday 29th July 12:27

It was either this fort or http://www.amazingretreats.com/spitbankfort/ Spitbank fort that my friends dad bought quite a few years back and turned it in to a luxury bond style pad. You can stay on Spitbank fort according to that website.

the pictured fort is the one in the article: No mans land fort



this is Spitbank:



taken from a harbour cruise a few years back - around that time Spitbank had a restaurant on it you could go out to for sunday lunches...

[andy400]

Pablo16v said:

I can't see this on any of the last few pages so hopefully not a repost. There's a house for sale near Aberdeen with an interesting "basement".

Looks fairly normal on approach




Inside is also pretty traditional



However, the interesting stuff is in the basement......

I can't even find the words to describe just how much I want that place!! I could fairly easily get it too......

However, SWMBO, in her additional role as the 'voice of reason', is unlikely to agree....

[Mexic0]

But you will have to put up with that fence and all the trucks and guard dogs next to your new house.And the new public footpath that is right next to it at the back

[andy400]

Mexic0 said:

But you will have to put up with that fence and all the trucks and guard dogs next to your new house.And the new public footpath that is right next to it at the back

Fine by me. I'll be underground, plotting.........

Mwahahahahaha........

[Mexic0]

I have one 5 miles away same building same underground but it is flooded

[GTO Scott]

Does any one else look at that house with the Joe90 theme running through their head?

I like it very much

[Jonny671]

Why has that house got the secret base under it?

[MattSmit]

Jonny671 said:

Why has that house got the secret base under it?

Because

Edited by MattSmit on Friday 6th August 12:34

[Smiler.]

Here's a few of the Bawdsey Rotor Station.

I took the mrs to Suffolk for a weekend last year & happened to take this book (excellent read, very technical if you like that sort of thing):



It just so happened that Bawdsey was fairly close by. Of course, the mrs didn't believe a word of it & assumed I'd planned the whole thing
















I just LOVE stuff like this.

[Morningside]

Smiler. said:

Here's a few of the Bawdsey Rotor Station.
(PICs)

Damn, I keep meaning to go to this.
My father was a radar (chain home) installer during WW2 and traveled most of europe and the middle east.

At the start he was based at Darsham but also traveled to Bawdsey and shingle street.
He told me that he was picked up in civvies in a (cough) 'bread van'.

Edited by Morningside on Friday 6th August 15:21

[Smiler.]

Morningside said:

Smiler. said:

Here's a few of the Bawdsey Rotor Station.
(PICs)

Damn, I keep meaning to go to this.
My father was a radar (chain home) installer during WW2 and traveled most of europe and the middle east.

At the start he was based at Darsham but also traveled to Bawdsey and shingle street.
He told me that he was picked up in civvies in a (cough) 'bread van'.

Edited by Morningside on Friday 6th August 15:21

Isn't Shingle Street rumoured to be where the bodies of the failed German landing are buried?

The basement of the Bawdsey site is flooded (apparently). Not much to see from the outside though, but still atmospheric, esp for anyone growing up in the mid 70's/80's.

That whole area of Suffolk is littered with stuff.

[sneijder]

I have a new HTC Desire and wanted to see how pictures turn out so :

This is in Norway, 2 hours outside Oslo. It was built in 1906 and not loved since then.









It's sadly beyond economical repair, however during the war I know the Nazis took all the nicest houses along the river here, and this is easily the biggest for a good 20 miles.

Therefore I feel it safe to assume the basement is full of Gold, The lost Ark and Van Klomps missing masterpiece 'The Fallen Madonna With The Big Boobies'.

[Twincam16]

I had that toy telephone as a baby.

[Mexic0]

MattSmit said:

Jonny671 said:

Why has that house got the secret base under it?

Because

Edited by MattSmit on Friday 6th August 12:34

Wrong they are ('JEX') R2 CHEL ROTOR Radar Stations

[Silent1]

I'm currently organising myself some access to the kingsway tunnels, they're a bit touchy on photography but i think they'll come round providing i blank out to stuff they don't want people seeing