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Club G40 => General Chat => Topic started by: tdh-syorks on July 21, 2010, 09:57:46 am

Title: urban exploration
Post by: tdh-syorks on July 21, 2010, 09:57:46 am
i was just wondering weather anyone on here was into urban exploration.
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Post by: hayesey on July 21, 2010, 10:24:07 am
is that were you go into disused factories, asylums and stuff?  Never done it but I love looking at the photos of it. 
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Post by: DMWG40 on July 21, 2010, 02:09:37 pm
i know someone that does, seems interesting
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Post by: cheddarcheese on July 21, 2010, 05:34:31 pm
i just checked out some urban exploration forums some really cool shit. reminds me of my demolition job i had for a couple of years i got to explore some cool sites found lots of random things.
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Post by: lance on July 21, 2010, 05:57:38 pm
yea mate am right into it, a few of  us do it all the time. been caught by the police and they just let us off.

there is an old ammo dump near me which was the best i have ever done!

http://www.visitcumbria.com/wc/broughtonmoor.htm
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Post by: cheddarcheese on July 21, 2010, 06:45:47 pm
all i see in that last link is a load of what could be garages/workshops lol what a waste!!!!
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Post by: Nick_S on July 21, 2010, 08:49:43 pm
Ste Sherwood is real into this. Remember him showing me some photos of disused navy builings and like.

There is supposed to be an underground hospital and tunnel network underneath Manchester City Centre from the cold war era. May be urban myth, but be good to have a mooch ;D
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Post by: samg40 on July 21, 2010, 09:05:01 pm
Best thing I've seen was the threads from not long after Longbridge was shut. Some amazing pictures in there. There were offices just left as people had been told to leave and half built cars left around. Also there was some sort of tunnel with a 60's Mini in I recall.
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Post by: hayesey on July 21, 2010, 09:09:51 pm
Quote from: Nick_S on July 21, 2010, 08:49:43 pm
Ste Sherwood is real into this. Remember him showing me some photos of disused navy builings and like.

There is supposed to be an underground hospital and tunnel network underneath Manchester City Centre from the cold war era. May be urban myth, but be good to have a mooch ;D

I've got a book called underground manchester which has stories and pictures of stuff under manchester.  big tunnels under deansgate, victoria arches etc... interesting stuff
Title: Re: urban exploration
Post by: tdh-syorks on July 21, 2010, 09:42:40 pm
yeah, i've done a few disused factories and steelworks round sheffield, never took any photo's tho, its really interesting some places, ill post an example,

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=52035


website here,,
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/
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Post by: Fred on July 21, 2010, 10:28:28 pm
Jeeze! Be no good me going in there. I wouldn`t come out for weeks.
I`m a bloody skiprat as it is lol.
I love old industry, so much more skill involved.

I`d love to look round there too Lance.

Wonder if these guys with metal detectors
have been sneaking round at night.
Mad really when you consider what they could be used for.
Homeless or whatever.

Fred.
Title: Re: urban exploration
Post by: Andy on July 22, 2010, 08:35:02 am
Quote from: Nick_S on July 21, 2010, 08:49:43 pm
There is supposed to be an underground hospital and tunnel network underneath Manchester City Centre from the cold war era. May be urban myth, but be good to have a mooch ;D
I've been round some tunnels in the Manc area when I was in Scouts - they were WWII shelters I think. Massive tunnels like a rabbit warren, but many were blocked off. There were still beds and chairs down there! Weren't normally open to the public but someone had blagged it for us. Wonder whether the health and safety Nazis have got that all blocked up for good by now?!
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Post by: tdh-syorks on July 22, 2010, 05:03:19 pm
here you go Hayesey

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/search.php?searchid=1225562
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Post by: vwmk3jon on July 22, 2010, 10:38:00 pm
^^^ link dont work :(

Can remeber exploring an old hospital shortly before it was demolished many years ago - was quite spookey!

Be pretty cool looking at those tunnels under manc.
Title: Re: urban exploration
Post by: Steve on July 23, 2010, 10:15:08 am
Quote from: Nick_S on July 21, 2010, 08:49:43 pm
Ste Sherwood is real into this. Remember him showing me some photos of disused navy builings and like.

There is supposed to be an underground hospital and tunnel network underneath Manchester City Centre from the cold war era. May be urban myth, but be good to have a mooch ;D

Yeap, i very much into this, Visited loads of places all over the Uk, Its quite a buzz infiltrating secure buildings, dodging security gaurds, like that buzz you got from hide and seek as a nipper) Been caught loads of times, all part of the fun.
Old factories, Mental Asylums, Military Bases, Old theme parks, Dozens of Disused Railway tunnels, Old Fortresses. Cold war Bunkers.  Combining it with photography, love it! On both 28dayslater and Deralictplaces forums. 

Few pics of mine

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4058/4423761864_edef62eeb2.jpg)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4422999227_f0cab83ca4.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3313/4556100850_536e4bbc2c.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3466/4556073750_42ee959596.jpg)

(http://www.gotosherwood.co.uk/mili/milli19.jpg)

(http://www.gotosherwood.co.uk/austin01.jpg)
Title: Re: urban exploration
Post by: GR40 on July 23, 2010, 11:30:06 am
really cool pics! art apreciated!
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Post by: hayesey on July 23, 2010, 12:14:34 pm
cool pics steve! any more? get some threads up in the pictures section or something.  I'd love to do this, definitely reminds me of going exploring places when you were a kid.
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Post by: vwmk3jon on July 23, 2010, 12:48:18 pm
They're cool :) done afew railway tunnels in derbyshire. Pretty erie half way through a 4mile tunnel.
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Post by: hayesey on July 23, 2010, 12:59:47 pm
yeah I read a really cool one recently about someone exploring the disused standedge tunnels between diggle and marsden on the lancashire/yorkshire border (there are four tunnels, two unused ex-rail tunnels, one double size rail tunnel still in use and a canal tunnel).  Interesting as I used to drive past it on the A62 every day on my way to work when my office was in marsden.  But it looked well scarey in there!
Title: Re: urban exploration
Post by: tdh-syorks on July 23, 2010, 01:52:40 pm
cool pics  ;) what camera do you use??
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Post by: Steve on July 24, 2010, 11:31:55 am
Quote from: vwmk3jon on July 23, 2010, 12:48:18 pm
They're cool :) done afew railway tunnels in derbyshire. Pretty erie half way through a 4mile tunnel.

We were in a Disused tunnel once, was just short of 1 mile long, Problem was it was a kinda 'S' shape so by the time you get to the middle you can't see any light form either end. We absolutly Shit ourselves when we heard a massive Rumble, echoing throughout the tunnel, Thoughts of it collapsing on us! And Mobiles don't work in tunnels. Rumble went away, Turned out to be another Railway tunnel crossing over the top of the one we were in, and we had just timed it right for a train to be going through it! We didn't know this at the time tho, Does Spook you out!


Quote from: tdh-syorks on July 23, 2010, 01:52:40 pm
cool pics  ;) what camera do you use??

Use a Sony A200 DSLR, and a few Minolta lenses. Nothing Spectacular, but still learning it all. (Try to take everything in Full manual mode!)
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Post by: woody02 on July 26, 2010, 11:56:28 pm
That stuff would freak me out! Exciting though!
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Post by: samg40 on July 27, 2010, 12:10:34 pm
Quote from: Steve on July 24, 2010, 11:31:55 am
Quote from: vwmk3jon on July 23, 2010, 12:48:18 pm
They're cool :) done afew railway tunnels in derbyshire. Pretty erie half way through a 4mile tunnel.

We were in a Disused tunnel once, was just short of 1 mile long, Problem was it was a kinda 'S' shape so by the time you get to the middle you can't see any light form either end. We absolutly Shit ourselves when we heard a massive Rumble, echoing throughout the tunnel, Thoughts of it collapsing on us! And Mobiles don't work in tunnels. Rumble went away, Turned out to be another Railway tunnel crossing over the top of the one we were in, and we had just timed it right for a train to be going through it! We didn't know this at the time tho, Does Spook you out!


Quote from: tdh-syorks on July 23, 2010, 01:52:40 pm
cool pics  ;) what camera do you use??

Use a Sony A200 DSLR, and a few Minolta lenses. Nothing Spectacular, but still learning it all. (Try to take everything in Full manual mode!)

I would have been thinking of the bit in Ghostbusters 2 when the ghost train comes through the tunnel!  :o
Title: Re: urban exploration
Post by: PeteG40 on July 27, 2010, 12:15:02 pm
wiiiiiiiiiinstoooooooooooon
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Post by: g40willa on July 30, 2010, 09:22:22 am
I grew up next to Greenham Common Airbase as a nipper, and when the US military moved home it was announced to be common land, which as a 12 year old with nothing but a BMX and NWA on cassette walkman, it was lisence to be nosey. Just had a look on that 28 days later forum, they've put pics of the missile silo's up, my pal and I got into one down a 4ft by 4 ft air-vent, and ended up in a maze of tunnels, undergroung control rooms, long concrete corridors with 10" thick steel doors everywhere, torch batterys went flat when we were prob about 100 feet below the surface. that was a buzz, and I had to change my undercrakkas after haha.
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Post by: quiksilver_jake on July 30, 2010, 11:40:07 am
been on http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/ for 2.5 hours ..awesome read
really up for doing something like this :)

Jake