Cool pics of urban exploring, abandoned machines and stuff

[Adz The Rat]

Read this, possibly the best Urbex outing ever!!

http://sleepycity.net/viewpost.php?b=67

Hope that isnt a repost!

[spaximus]

mrmaggit said:

Justayellowbadge said:

RizzoTheRat said:

http://www.oradour.info/

Christ, that's harrowing.

You want to go there, then. When I went, I was there for about 20 minutes before I realised that there was no sound other than your own footsteps and those of other people to be heard, maybe a little conversation.

When you come out, you start to hear the birds singing again. I kid you not.

That is absolutly true. I went and had to come out as I found it all too much to see, not a bird sang any where at all. A deeply moving place

[Ayahuasca]

All thet remains of a 16th century Spanish colonial church hidden deep in the jungle. The conquistador Francisco Pizarro, the buccaneer Henry Morgan and the privateer Francis Drake all stood on those steps. Nothing there now except trees, mosquitoes, jaguars and snakes. Takes four hours of trekking through the forest to get there. Planning to go back with a metal detector...

[clonmult]

Adz The Rat said:

Read this, possibly the best Urbex outing ever!!

http://sleepycity.net/viewpost.php?b=67

Hope that isnt a repost!

Don't care if its a repost, its frackin' awesome!

[southendpier]

Kayakoy, in Turkey. Not my picture but an fascinating place to go to, very odd.

[John MacK]

Found this deserted house in the woods one day.





In a shed round the back found this switch panel.





The switches seemed to control this old Lister engine.





Which was connected to this!





There was even a spare blade outside.




The guards on duty didn't look too happy to see us though.

[Jonny671]

clonmult said:

Adz The Rat said:

Read this, possibly the best Urbex outing ever!!

http://sleepycity.net/viewpost.php?b=67

Hope that isnt a repost!

Don't care if its a repost, its frackin' awesome!

That is brilliant!

[Steamer]

southendpier said:

Kayakoy, in Turkey. Not my picture but an fascinating place to go to, very odd.

I've done a bit of exploring around that area.

It is indeed a bit odd, but its not got the 'ghost town' erry feeling I expected - totally stripped of anything of an use. Unlike most other places there no vandalism either.

[Steamer]

Heres where I spent my summer holiday! (not just here thankfully)

Prora - North Germany.

Tracing what would have been Hitler's dream holiday resort for is ideal race... I give you, Nazi Butlins! 'The 10,000 room resort to strengthen families as part of the Nazis' scheme of social engineering.'





Sorry for the big pics but its the only way to show its true scale. It took half a day just to walk round it!

[h4muf]

^^^Never got finished did it?^^^

[Steamer]

h4muf said:

^^^Never got finished did it?^^^

It was fairly close, wiki says:

"The eight housing blocks, the theatre and cinema stayed as empty shells, and the swimming pools and festival hall never materialised. During the Allied bombing campaign, many people from Hamburg took refuge in one of the housing blocks, and later refugees from the east of Germany were housed there. By the end of the war, these buildings served to house female auxiliary personnel for the Luftwaffe."

And although its tatty now (I think one whole block has been demolished) there are lots of signs up about future developments.

[Balmoral Green]

John MacK said:

Found this deserted house in the woods one day.





In a shed round the back found this switch panel.





The switches seemed to control this

[h4muf]

Trust you warren

[S. Gonzales Esq.]

Steamer said:

Heres where I spent my summer holiday! (not just here thankfully)

Prora - North Germany.

Coincidence - I was there in the Autumn. That aerial shot really shows you the size of it, which you don't see on the ground. One end is now a camp site:



Just up the coast at Kap Arkona is a disused military bunker - no access, but I liked these ventilators:

[13th]

I would love to see Famagusta, I have been taken past it by sea on a speed boat but we were turned away and warned in no uncertain terms. I am going back a few years though.

I don't know how much is local legend or the chap just wanting to hire his boat out for the day but he had some lurid stories; we also travelled there overland and again couldn't get past the military defences although again we did get within sight.

[BLUETHUNDER]

Erik Estrada said:

I have just discovered that the weird old place near his village I meant to explore when younger, was actually used for overnight storage of nuclear weapons, and the handy "thingy" I used to sit on in the field and have a smoke, was actually the ventilation hatch of an underground cold war bunker! Who knew

ROC bunker link here: http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php...

West Dean Nuclear storage facility here: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/d/dean_hi...

I know what I will be doing come crimbo time when I go to visit the rents.....

That first link. There are hundreds of those bunkers all over the UK. They were normally manned by a crew of 3.Drawing members from the observation corp or the RAF to measure radiation levels and the effects of blast after the big one.They were expected to stay under ground for up to 6 weeks. But i would suspect that most would have been dead by then. More depressing was the fact that the personnel down there would have been issued with cyanide tablets.

Edited by BLUETHUNDER on Saturday 5th December 00:16

[jhfozzy]

BLUETHUNDER said:

Erik Estrada said:

I have just discovered that the weird old place near his village I meant to explore when younger, was actually used for overnight storage of nuclear weapons, and the handy "thingy" I used to sit on in the field and have a smoke, was actually the ventilation hatch of an underground cold war bunker! Who knew

ROC bunker link here: http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php...

West Dean Nuclear storage facility here: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/d/dean_hi...

I know what I will be doing come crimbo time when I go to visit the rents.....

That first link. There are hundreds of those bunkers all over the UK. They were normally manned by a crew of 3.Drawing members from the observation corp or the RAF to measure radiation levels and the effects of blast after the big one.They were expected to stay under ground for up to 6 weeks. But i would suspect that most would have been dead by then. More depressing was the fact that the personnel down there would have been issued with cyanide tablets.

Subbrit does a good write up on ROC posts, I've been inside about 20 of the 60 odd south / west wales ones (there's one about 2 mins walk from my house), some are in good condition, some are very poor / flooded. I've also been in the AAORs (Anti Aircraft Operatins Room) in West cross, Swansea and Wenallt, Cardiff and there is a massive difference between the two, the West cross one is in top nick as it's used all the time, but the Wenallt one has unfortunately been mostly burnt out.

[BLUETHUNDER]

jhfozzy said:

BLUETHUNDER said:

Erik Estrada said:

I have just discovered that the weird old place near his village I meant to explore when younger, was actually used for overnight storage of nuclear weapons, and the handy "thingy" I used to sit on in the field and have a smoke, was actually the ventilation hatch of an underground cold war bunker! Who knew

ROC bunker link here: http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php...

West Dean Nuclear storage facility here: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/d/dean_hi...

I know what I will be doing come crimbo time when I go to visit the rents.....

That first link. There are hundreds of those bunkers all over the UK. They were normally manned by a crew of 3.Drawing members from the observation corp or the RAF to measure radiation levels and the effects of blast after the big one.They were expected to stay under ground for up to 6 weeks. But i would suspect that most would have been dead by then. More depressing was the fact that the personnel down there would have been issued with cyanide tablets.

Subbrit does a good write up on ROC posts, I've been inside about 20 of the 60 odd south / west wales ones (there's one about 2 mins walk from my house), some are in good condition, some are very poor / flooded. I've also been in the AAORs (Anti Aircraft Operatins Room) in West cross, Swansea and Wenallt, Cardiff and there is a massive difference between the two, the West cross one is in top nick as it's used all the time, but the Wenallt one has unfortunately been mostly burnt out.

Thanks for the info

[Sway]

Los Palmas 7 said:

Personally, I am fascinated by this place:

Are they acoustic reflectors from WW1? If so, 100 yards from me is 'the Listening Post' which I came close to buying last year. Has an acoustic reflector like the one in the middle acting as a central spine wall with a four room 'shack' the concave side and a garage the other, in a lovely big-ish plot which is effectively a traffic island. (lovely quiet road though!)

Unfortunately I dragged my heels on it as I wasn't sure I'd get permission to flatten everything except the spine and rebuild a far nicer building around it. It now seems to be owned by some hippies.

Village rumour has it that it has extensive below ground space, as it was converted to a hydrophone station watching over one end of the Solent during WW2...

Can't find the pics I took at the mo, and unfortunately Google doesn't seem to furnish me with anything. (Selsey, W. Sussex if anyone can help)

[S. Gonzales Esq.]

More information on the Sound Mirrors - click on the Selsey link.

Edited by S. Gonzales Esq. on Saturday 5th December 19:38