Cool pics of urban exploring, abandoned machines and stuff

[Spiritual_Beggar]

Wonder what the scarp value of that lot would be?

It does make you wonder, with all that abandoned machinery we have seen on this thread, how much scrap value is out there!

[captainzep]

Dave200 said:

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).

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

Missiles and bullets left? I'm ex military and I'd say that extremely unlikely.

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!

Exactly. I would say that this 'mate' found some empty buildings, and let his imagination run away with him...

Stab in the dark, but could this be related to the old Garat's Hay Barracks?

[deano12345]

BigS said:

That'll be a BM-21 Grad launcher then, a modern Stalin organ, left over from the Libya - Egypt war? Along with the the unexploded ordinance, I think it was only Tripoli the Yanks bombed in the 80s.
What are those other trucks used for then?

Edited by BigS on Tuesday 20th July 15:31

Edited by BigS on Tuesday 20th July 15:32

we found quite a bit of stuff out there thinking back i remember there being a few vehicles, a tank and a pretty big plane, sadly no pics

the other trucks are called vibrators, we use them in siesmic exploration

[BigS]

deano12345 said:

BigS said:

That'll be a BM-21 Grad launcher then, a modern Stalin organ, left over from the Libya - Egypt war? Along with the the unexploded ordinance, I think it was only Tripoli the Yanks bombed in the 80s.
What are those other trucks used for then?

Edited by BigS on Tuesday 20th July 15:31

Edited by BigS on Tuesday 20th July 15:32

we found quite a bit of stuff out there thinking back i remember there being a few vehicles, a tank and a pretty big plane, sadly no pics

the other trucks are called vibrators, we use them in siesmic exploration

Ah, cool, thanks, presumably they were being used to look for oil?

[deano12345]

BigS said:

deano12345 said:

BigS said:

That'll be a BM-21 Grad launcher then, a modern Stalin organ, left over from the Libya - Egypt war? Along with the the unexploded ordinance, I think it was only Tripoli the Yanks bombed in the 80s.
What are those other trucks used for then?

Edited by BigS on Tuesday 20th July 15:31

Edited by BigS on Tuesday 20th July 15:32

we found quite a bit of stuff out there thinking back i remember there being a few vehicles, a tank and a pretty big plane, sadly no pics

the other trucks are called vibrators, we use them in siesmic exploration

Ah, cool, thanks, presumably they were being used to look for oil?

yup, much bigger now though about 40 tonnes each

[Twincam16]

captainzep said:

Dave200 said:

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).

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

Missiles and bullets left? I'm ex military and I'd say that extremely unlikely.

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!

Exactly. I would say that this 'mate' found some empty buildings, and let his imagination run away with him...

Stab in the dark, but could this be related to the old Garat's Hay Barracks?

That's the one. I knew it began with a 'G'.

This website:

http://www.garatshay.org.uk/welbeck.htm

Notes that they were demolished fairly recently after being shuttered up for years, and a new centre built on the site. This must've been what he was referring to. Sounds like it was some kind of signalling & comms centre.

Edited by Twincam16 on Tuesday 20th July 16:00

[RobboC]

Dr Imran T said:

hidetheelephants said:

Rather a sad looking North American F100 Super Sabre; where's that then? Are those froggy markings?

They are in Kent. I believe I spotted them on the way to Pluckley one afternoon

They are at Headcorn Airfield, I pass them everyday and been meaning to take some pics.

[Dave200]

Twincam16 said:

captainzep said:

Dave200 said:

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).

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

Missiles and bullets left? I'm ex military and I'd say that extremely unlikely.

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!

Exactly. I would say that this 'mate' found some empty buildings, and let his imagination run away with him...

Stab in the dark, but could this be related to the old Garat's Hay Barracks?

That's the one. I knew it began with a 'G'.

This website:

http://www.garatshay.org.uk/welbeck.htm

Notes that they were demolished fairly recently after being shuttered up for years, and a new centre built on the site. This must've been what he was referring to. Sounds like it was some kind of signalling & comms centre.

Edited by Twincam16 on Tuesday 20th July 16:00

Riiiiight.

So, what on earth would all these "weapons (including missiles)" be doing at a communications base?
Also, why would anyone have wanted to cover up the (planned) demolition of that place?

Plus it is literally nowhere near any of the University halls of residence.

I smell a (slightly-exaggerating) rodent. Did the 'mate' send through any pics?

Edited by Dave200 on Tuesday 20th July 16:39

[Smiler.]

Mole, where was the BP building?

Hora, piss-off with the egging will ya, some of us have work to do

[Alter Bridge]

Jackleman said:

A few more from Nam...














That was on theunderworld program and hairy bikers

[Smiler.]

Here's some from the last remaining bit of the Littlemore Asylum. Bought by Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co. & opened as a research institute in 1990, they re-built the central building, fitted-out the west wing & mothballed the east wing (very much as it was left when the NHS vacated).

Without doubt, THE most unnerving building I have ever had the pleasure of visiting. You could almost hear the screams.

The quality of the shots is a bit naff, as I was there to do a survey.

[Smiler.]

The floor & roof spaces in the east wing

[Smiler.]

The west wing where the research took place























They had an external bin store which was piled high with Fume Cupboard filters, in clear plastic bags & taped-up with the words Do Not Open - INCINERATE.

Needles to say, after a few years being left outdoors, UV had destroyed the plastic bags. Nice.

[mcdjl]

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).

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

I suspect that he was in the Holt (its the only hall off campus even vaguely towards the country side) or that he was over towards the engineering bit and exagerating. Either way he'll have walked something like this (the road most of its on is a dirt track/ bridleway really and you can't get anything less than a 4x4 on it) map or a similar run (a couple of the housing estates are new on the south edge of town and block old paths. He'll then have got to where Welbeck now is as its only 4/5 years old and used to be an army outpost of some sorts..I'm sure someone could look it up. Depending on when he was there he may just have been around at the time they knocked down the old post and started building the school as its still classed as a military site.

[Twincam16]

Just clarified the name with him - Sutton Bonington. Somewhere between Loughborough and Nottingham.

RAF Newton - looks like someone else got there first with a camera:

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.ph...

[Fume troll]

These may have been done to death, you know what the search function is like...

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2010/06/battleship...

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/07/gallery-russi...

Cheers,

FT.

[Silent1]

5 more years and i can post the photos i have from when i did a survey of burlington bunker.

[mcdjl]

Twincam16 said:

Just clarified the name with him - Sutton Bonington. Somewhere between Loughborough and Nottingham.

RAF Newton - looks like someone else got there first with a camera:

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.ph...

Thats quite some walking....takes almost 1/2 an hour by car. Would Wymeswold be possible? Its a sight closer though as its used for car driving possibly less likely. They have started doing some work on Newton in the last year or so to help with widening the A46 though.

[Twincam16]

mcdjl said:

Twincam16 said:

Just clarified the name with him - Sutton Bonington. Somewhere between Loughborough and Nottingham.

RAF Newton - looks like someone else got there first with a camera:

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.ph...

Thats quite some walking....takes almost 1/2 an hour by car. Would Wymeswold be possible? Its a sight closer though as its used for car driving possibly less likely. They have started doing some work on Newton in the last year or so to help with widening the A46 though.

He definitely confirms it was near Sutton Bonington. I think Newton is more likely seeing as though the pictures on that website are more like the ones he showed me than the ones I'm seeing of Wymeswold on 28DL, which looks totally derelict with no machinery, locked doors or vehicles left around, or even a roof on the buildings.

Edited by Twincam16 on Wednesday 21st July 13:58

[mcdjl]

Twincam16 said:

He definitely confirms it was near Sutton Bonington. I think Newton is more likely seeing as though the pictures on that website are more like the ones he showed me than the ones I'm seeing of Wymeswold on 28DL, which looks totally derelict with no machinery, locked doors or vehicles left around, or even a roof on the buildings.

The munitions factory/store at Ruddington is considerably closer and is between L'boro/Notts. The railway was kept open as a spur when the rest of it was shut down to carry on servicing it. Its now under the country park/transport museum.