Cool pics of urban exploring, abandoned machines and stuff

[jshell]

sherman said:

Celt said:

HereBeMonsters said:

Reminds me of some blokes from my school who found a tunnel leading from the old staff room to a bunker below the music school at the other end of the school field. Apparently built during the summer holidays in 1940, there are pics somewhere if I can find them.

That would be good to see! There must be lots of tunnels around that people dont even know about. I seen a website a few years ago saying there were tunnels all over glasgow all linked up.

This website

www.hiddenglasgow.com/

There are miles of old railway tunnels under Glasgow. You can still access some from the Botanic gardens, but the ones by Kelvin Bridge have been blocked off - one is even a restaurant now. Spent many hours down there as a kid!!

[gjc10212]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/underground_city/ga...

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/brit...

[.Adam.]

If you could get in, Famagusta, in Cyprus would be great, I imagine it to like a Pripyat without the radiation!
I would love to get into this type of thing, would love to explore Cane Hill, the nearest I have got is having a good look around Reims.

Edited by .Adam. on Friday 4th December 11:35

[SimonV8ster]

Outback Texas.......

[neilsie]

Nardies said:

These pics are from a family holiday in Sri Lanka two years ago, I did actually post this on 28DL but it's since been deleted it would seem. Looking back, I was a bit stupid and mental doing this.

The view from my hotel had this severely damaged building on the skyline, which for some weird reason, interested me.



This is the railway I followed out from the relative safety of my guarded hotel, they did recommend I didn't leave, but meh.

staying at Mount Lavina? if so, was all the restoration work finished?

did you take a train ride? it gets quite interesting coming back from Columbo in rush hour!

[Nardies]

Didn't know it was having a restoration to be honest, beautiful place though. The foyer was amazing! The rooms were a little dated, but thankfully had air con!

[Jonny671]

.Adam. said:

If you could get in, Famagusta, in Cyprus would be great, I imagine it to like a Pripyat without the radiation!
I would love to get into this type of thing, would love to explore Cane Hill, the nearest I have got is having a good look around Reims.

Edited by .Adam. on Friday 4th December 11:35

Cane Hill is being knocked down at the moment unfortunately!

I'd love more pictures of Chernobyl etc!

[shirt]

i was going to suggest the ryugyong hotel in north korea as a prime candidate, but it appears they've recommenced construction.

how its looked for the best part of 20yrs:


now:


edited to fix pic

Edited by shirt on Friday 4th December 12:13

[CoolC]

Kit80 said:

RAF Nocton Hospital

I was born there. Fascinating to see it now (although obviously I don't remember it from the first time I was there)

[Oily Nails]

shirt said:

i was going to suggest the ryugyong hotel in north korea as a prime candidate, but it appears they've recommenced construction.

how its looked for the best part of 20yrs:


now:

fixed your link

Edited by Oily Nails on Friday 4th December 12:12

[shirt]

as i seem unable to do the same, cheers!

[RizzoTheRat]

Jonny671 said:

I'd love more pictures of Chernobyl etc!

Some great pictures on this site http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html, though she apparently was on an organised bus tour rather than the bike trip she claims.

[UncappedTag]

Oily Nails said:

shirt said:

i was going to suggest the ryugyong hotel in north korea as a prime candidate, but it appears they've recommenced construction.

how its looked for the best part of 20yrs:


now:

fixed your link

Edited by Oily Nails on Friday 4th December 12:12

This is how Dubai's landscape is going to end up looking like!

[UncappedTag]

http://atlasobscura.com/ makes for a good lunchtime reading

[B Oeuf]

shirt said:

i was going to suggest the ryugyong hotel in north korea as a prime candidate, but it appears they've recommenced construction.

can't think of anything more pointless than a luxury hotel in NK

[shirt]

wiki page reckons its being done by an egyptian telecoms firm, using the top for masts and simply cladding the outside to make it look better. good job as an article i read about it reckoned it'd need a few hundred million $ spending to inspect/repair the concrete as its been exposed for so long.

so, a useless hotel turned into an antenna so that they can sell mobile phones that noone is allowed to use. awesome.

[evil len]

When we did some arty shots for the band, the photographer took us here (an abandoned factory/warehouse type place ... we had to climb in round the back)



Some place in Birmingham

[Sixpackpert]

How long do we think before pics of the Corus plant on Teeside start coming through??

[shirt]

good one. the caster would be impressive if you've not seen one. the scale of the engineering kit in there is amazing.

[Adz The Rat]

Abandoned farm in Leyland....










Rest here.......
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adztherat/sets/721576...

Edited by Adz The Rat on Friday 4th December 13:24