Bull Manor Owner on Radio

Derelict Places

Help Support Derelict Places:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Status
Not open for further replies.

vmlopes

Veteran Member
Veteran Member
Joined
Jan 7, 2009
Messages
256
Reaction score
286
Location
Reading
Did anyone else hear the Mayor of Windsor & Maidenhead who also happens to be the owner of Bull Manor or Berkyn Manor as its officially known, slagging of urban explorers this morning on BBC Radio Berkshire??

He went on to say that Urban Exploration should be made a criminal offence and that a recent group of 5 explorers at the weekend were caught by the police with books stolen from the manor on them!!

Simon Cornwell, was interviewed a few minutes after defending and explaining scene....cant seem to find a podcast anywhere???
 
wow thanks for sharing wll try and track that down there might be a podcast later or something, very interesting.

What was the name of the show and what time was it on roughly?

Shame about the urbex baddies with the books if its true, shame its been named and out there for the masses now thru some pea brained policies elsewhere on the internet
 
Agree the no marks that stole from there should be done for theft, simplez


I have been hearing about a lot of this lately where so called urbexers have been stealing items from these sites... well there not urbexers they are thieves and simple trespass becomes burglary I don’t know how they think they have the right to help them self to these late owners items it makes me sick to the gut it puts a bad name to us urbexers/photographers and will spoil it for us all just so they can make a quick buck on flee bay in my eyes these low life’s are as bad as the copper stealing pikys and should be caught and taken to court we all stick to the code of take nothing but photos and leave nothing but foot prints for a reason where as it stands 9 out of 10 chance you will get caught on a site you will be ask to leave and maybe escorted off the premises where if these thefts carry on there will be more chance of being arrested and prosecuted.
I believe we visit these beautiful buildings to document them before they are gone and dereliction can be a form of photography art.
Sorry for the rant on your post but this matter really rattles me


Alex76
 
Its on there now, scroll to 1:26 in the broadcast.
 
This was bound to happen at some point with this place.

The tour bus has well and truly been in full swing, every tom dick and harry rocking up to take photos so it's unsurprising a few have been caught with dirty hands...I hope they hang their heads in shame.

Hopefully now this has happened - and there have been much beefier security arrangements installed as a result - the old girl can rest in peace.
 
I have been hearing about a lot of this lately where so called urbexers have been stealing items from these sites... well there not urbexers they are thieves and simple trespass becomes burglary I don’t know how they think they have the right to help them self to these late owners items it makes me sick to the gut it puts a bad name to us urbexers/photographers and will spoil it for us all just so they can make a quick buck on flee bay in my eyes these low life’s are as bad as the copper stealing pikys and should be caught and taken to court we all stick to the code of take nothing but photos and leave nothing but foot prints for a reason where as it stands 9 out of 10 chance you will get caught on a site you will be ask to leave and maybe escorted off the premises where if these thefts carry on there will be more chance of being arrested and prosecuted.
I believe we visit these beautiful buildings to document them before they are gone and dereliction can be a form of photography art.
Sorry for the rant on your post but this matter really rattles me


Alex76

Well said that man :)
 
It's disgusting.. We may however sound hypocritical as we are technically committing a civil offence by trespassing, but literally all the good natured majority of us want to do is take photos. I contacted the owner months ago and he was not interested in giving me permission to do a model shoot there. I feel sorry for him as he wanted to have it converted but the council overruled the plans and it's been sat there to waste. He must get so frustrated. And it doesnt bloody help that the "other website" now has a section naming all of the properties properly. I used to take the mick a bit, but the people who "codename" the sites have got it right, you have to do your work to find it. But alas, it can still be passed on and on through friends and then vandalised, graffed or burnt down. We can't protect them unfortunately, only the owners/security can. But what we can do is keep pictures and names of these types of properties out of the public eye. But then again, people love to show their pics.. A tough one
 
TBH I hope more people get caught red handed. It's theft, it's criminal, whoever does it should get what they deserve and maybe it will deter the rest.

They should be named too IMO

I'm the same as serveral of you guys who need a clean enhanced CRB for work too.
 
If they're over 18 and are charged, they will be named
I wonder if they are people known to the Urbex forums (I won't use the term explorer for them). Or if they are known burglars that have simply found the house from it being named on an Urbex forum, and had it as the pre arranged story?
Surprised there's nothing in the local paper yet. If 5 people were arrested in one go round here, it'd be front page news!
 
They are no more Urban Explorers than football hooligans are football fans, they are simply thieves that hide behind the UE title in the hope of getting away with shit.

Mr Rayner hasnt done a lot for his cause by spouting two blatent lies.

1- That the property is being refurbished and
2 - You can go onto UE websites and they tell you how to enter the building

Nah

Anyway, I have spliced and uploaded the relevant bits of the radio programme if anybody wants to hear it, click on the link below

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/60071867/BM.mp3


Moo!!!
 
The fact of individuals stealing from sites is nothing new, it's been going on since the year dot. Genuine honest explorers are rightly pissed off about it but it won't stop. Whenever it makes it into the media it's nearly always portrayed as ' everyone breaks in, everyone steals stuff' ie a one-sided view is nearly always given to the public. If you listened to the broadcast, particularly the 'Mayor's' contribution, then any right-minded person can see he's exaggerating for effect. "Every time they come they break in" simply isn't the truth. A great number of explorers have been to this site without incident.

There's very little we can do to change this perception as our hobby is perceived by 'average Joe/Joanna' as a bit odd frankly. No matter how many explorers try to give a more balanced view to the media, each time the subject comes into the public arena the same biased viewpoint is trotted out that we're all thieves and burglars who break in. If they're not going to take any notice of the fact that it's a few bad apples and not the majority then we're stymied.

The Press feed on any kind of sensationalism and always will, it's how they earn their living, but it's not the all-encompassing scourge that, for the sake of their viewing/listening/sales figures they like to pretend it is.

At the moment we don't know who 'the 5' are, what they may or may not have done etc. Let's save our judgements for a time when we actually have all the facts.
 
Many of us dont break in, but we are all happy to use existing access points... which are usually just where a previous person has broken in. It's a thin line we walk.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Latest posts

Back
Top