Cool pics of urban exploring, abandoned machines and stuff

Cool pics of urban exploring, abandoned machines and stuff

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Ayahuasca

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Tuesday 1st December 2009
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I will start:


phil1979

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Tuesday 1st December 2009
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The American Star

porcupineprince

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185 months

Tuesday 1st December 2009
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I love how you've constructed the title of the thread to accomodate your picture. biggrin

RizzoTheRat

25,083 posts

191 months

Tuesday 1st December 2009
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Someone sent me a link to this recently
http://www.ngte.co.uk/buildings/index.htm
Bit weird to see a place I used to work now derelict.

V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Tuesday 1st December 2009
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I think this thread would be more 'cool' if the pics were actually taken by the person posting them, on the basis of them having actually explored the 'stuff'.

evenflow

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281 months

Tuesday 1st December 2009
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Not urban, as such, but there is a place near me called Woodchester Mansion. It's in it's own grounds, about a mile down a potholed path.

William Leigh, a rich merchant, commissioned the build in the 1860s. By the mid 1870s, the outside shell of the house had been completed, as had most of the downstairs rooms. Most though had no ceilings, and therefore no upstairs.

One day, the workmen just upped and left the site, leaving all their tools where they lay. Nobody knows why.

The house was never completed and stands now as it did in the 1870s. I've been around it, and believe me, the cellar and chapel are not somewhere I would go alone...



You can see the fireplace halfway up the wall here, obviously supposed to be the first floor.



One of the only upstairs corridors:



Floorless room:




And a little story...
scared people said:
U.S. and Canadian soldiers once occupied this part of the mansion during the Second World War. Some of the lakes in Woodchester Park were used for training in preparation for the the D-Day landings. And it was during these exercises that tragedy struck, whilst testing out the strength of a pontoon bridge, built across one of the lake. The bridge collapsed and a tank and upto 20 soldiers fell into the lake. Those who went in were killed either by being crushed by the fall of the tank, or by parts of the bridge that crashed down on top of them. The Woodchester Park Angel was said to have appeared the night before at the same location as the incident .
As well as sensing the presence of 'people' in military uniform, music from the 1940's has been heard. And, some visitors have reported the smell of bacon frying to guides.

Ayahuasca

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Tuesday 1st December 2009
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V8mate said:
I think this thread would be more 'cool' if the pics were actually taken by the person posting them, on the basis of them having actually explored the 'stuff'.
Very true.

Right, just pics you have taken yourself then.


DrTre

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231 months

Tuesday 1st December 2009
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Ayahuasca said:
V8mate said:
I think this thread would be more 'cool' if the pics were actually taken by the person posting them, on the basis of them having actually explored the 'stuff'.
Very true.

Right, just pics you have taken yourself then.

Soovy

35,829 posts

270 months

Tuesday 1st December 2009
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DrTre said:
Ayahuasca said:
V8mate said:
I think this thread would be more 'cool' if the pics were actually taken by the person posting them, on the basis of them having actually explored the 'stuff'.
Very true.

Right, just pics you have taken yourself then.
Jesus are you in RUSSIA?!


DrTre

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Tuesday 1st December 2009
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Soovy said:
Jesus are you in RUSSIA?!
Twice in two days you've torpedoed an ill thought out post of mine, twice in two days.

160steve

707 posts

191 months

Tuesday 1st December 2009
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DrTre said:
Soovy said:
Jesus are you in RUSSIA?!
Twice in two days you've torpedoed an ill thought out post of mine, twice in two days.
infamy, infamy ........

central

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216 months

Blackpig2

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180 months

Tuesday 1st December 2009
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Try WWW.ENGLISHRUSSIA.COM


Edited by Blackpig2 on Tuesday 1st December 18:59


Edited by Blackpig2 on Tuesday 1st December 19:00

Los Palmas 7

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229 months

Tuesday 1st December 2009
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Blackpig2 said:
For what, exactly? All I get is a mainly blank page.

Blackpig2

626 posts

180 months

Tuesday 1st December 2009
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Try it again.............

GuinnessMK

1,608 posts

221 months

Tuesday 1st December 2009
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central said:
http://www.derelictlondon.com/autumnandwinter2009updates.htm

Spotted halfway down the page, a Mk1 Fiesta smile


T89 Callan

8,422 posts

192 months

Tuesday 1st December 2009
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A couple of pics of my E30 at some local Docks, I love to ride my bike and drive around this place just looking at whats new, whats old and whats scrap. I should get some dedicated pictures really.






W00DY

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225 months

Tuesday 1st December 2009
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loads more interesting pics and stories on www.artificialowl.net

Ayahuasca

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Tuesday 1st December 2009
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That Catalina looks strangely familiar...

V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Tuesday 1st December 2009
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OK. Seem to have 'misplaced' lots of my pics, but here are a few from work I did for English Heritage.

This the Admiralty Lookout, at Dover Castle. It sits right on the top of the cliff, on the cliff edge. It was first built during the Napoleonic wars, then added to for WWI and then again for WWII. It was, as the name suggests, the lookout for the English Channel and held all manner of range finding and other plotting equipment.

When the project started, almost the entire building was buried. It had to be dug out and then restored to a stadrad which would permit visitors to walk about in it. After I had completed that phase, the 'interpretation' team at EH then recreated how these rooms would have looked with various artefacts.

I guess the bit which is 'special' is the access I had to the 'front' of the Lookout, i.e. looking back at the front windows. This is a view that hardly anyone will ever see as it requires you to stand on the small strip of land immediately in front of this cliff-top installation. (I used to wind my OH up by telephoning her whilst standing out on the precipice telling her how windy it was that day hehe )

Anyway, I can't find any of the 'before' pics, so here are a couple from the cliff looking back at the windows followed by a few of the inside following the refurb. Probably looks pretty boring in the pics, but it's very difficult to get across just how pain-staking it was putting this utterly derelict building back together.