Cool pics of urban exploring, abandoned machines and stuff
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No the pictures weren't taken by me but I do know the place and have visited It a few times Including the underground Tunnels!
http://www.derelicte.co.uk/hms-ganges
Butch
http://www.derelicte.co.uk/hms-ganges
Butch
te! Im late for my work thanks to this thread. Brilliant pictures.
crofty1984 said:
Selective Catalytic Reduction. Ooh I'm so clever!
Nope, Sector Combustor Rig. If you want the acronyms, the missing rig in the other photo was the ILPF (Isentropic Light Piston Facility)Quite a lot more visitors than most posted so far, but Oradour-sur-Glane is well worth a visit
For those that ahven't heard of it, it's been preserved as a monument to fallen after the enture village was slaughtered by the Nazis
http://www.oradour.info/
flickr said:
"Taken from my dad's car on the A1 with the old instamatic, as a 12-year-old in the early 1990s. The Lightning is still there, but rusty, missing parts, graffiti ridden and on it's back wheels. It was purchased as a gimmick by a haulage company owner, but now sits amongst old cars and scrap."
central said:
flickr said:
"Taken from my dad's car on the A1 with the old instamatic, as a 12-year-old in the early 1990s. The Lightning is still there, but rusty, missing parts, graffiti ridden and on it's back wheels. It was purchased as a gimmick by a haulage company owner, but now sits amongst old cars and scrap."
www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk said:
On the subject of crying shames, the Lightning above is a sorry sight. XN728, one of the few remaining F.2As, and just look at it - massively vandalised. Placed in the A1 Commercial Sales Yard to attract customers back in 1983, since the yard's collapse in the early 1990s, XN728 was left to rot. Presumably the receiver thought it was an asset which is why it wasn't simply bulldozed away. XN728 was used for BDR for a while and carries a few patches to prove it, and for transport to the yard the wings and tail were simply cut off - and cut in the wrong places. Reassembly was carried out using large sheets of metal to hold everything together once more, and they have rusted badly and warped under the stress. The landing gear was considered too weak to support the airframe (which is complete with engines) and accordingly the belly was supported with a framework of girders. Unfortunately at some point someone nicked the radome, and the change in the center of gravity tipped XN728 on her tail; the belly tank wasn't up to this and the girders have cut right through and are now firmly embedded in the belly. The cockpit has been gutted, the canopy stolen, the glass in the windscreen smashed out of existence, the spine is nearly non-existent and the fuselage is badly holed in many places with just about anything nickable long since gone. To finish her off, as you can see the entire aircraft is liberally spattered with graffiti (mostly applied during the late 1990s and early 2000s when the yard was basically an empty plot of land with just the Lightning sat in the middle, and no security or even fencing at all). It's a sad end for a proud fighter. After years of dereliction the yard was purchased by a new owner in 2005 and it was reported that the owner was thinking of beginning a restoration effort on the airframe - to date, nothing appears to have been done and given the contact I've received from said owner, I firmly believe the aircraft is doomed to collapse into a pile of rusty metal. It is, it has to be said, pretty much beyond help at this point anyway.
Justayellowbadge said:
RizzoTheRat said:
Christ, that's harrowing.When you come out, you start to hear the birds singing again. I kid you not.
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