Dilapidated
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Hello all, this is my maiden post so I hope it all goes well.
So last summer some friends and I were in the IOW and it was suggested a visit to Blackgang should take place. I won't post a long history that's well known but suffice to say those cliff faces keep crumbling (!) so I imagine they'll be moving it again in the not too distant future. What's left of the old amusement park is still there in bits and pieces, as shown below (hopefully...). Out of the few of us that were there, I was the only one that wanted to have a look. The end of the road, literally, drops off the cliff. That surprised me, it was even more of a sharp drop than in the pictures I'd seen previously. The other thing that surprised me was the amount of sheer filth that had been chucked on the part of the road that had fallen away - doors, buckets, pipes...
So I got around to the roundabout merry-go-round and the other concrete structure (any ideas?) and realised that I was standing three foot away from the edge of a many foot drop into the sea. As this was my first explore you can imagine the nerves, which was not helped by my friends' calling "we cant see you, have you fallen off? Have you died yet?" - these are the people I choose to go on holiday with. I would've gone further up to the other structure but, in all honesty, I was more concerned with getting off of a cliff edge. So pictures were taken, nothing you haven't seen before, but I thought it better to have something to bring to the table. I did take a few shops of the curry house which is also empty, but only from the outside. If anyone would like to see these you're more than welcome to.
And yes, it still spins like new.
Cheers,
Dilapidated
Edit: Apologies for being new, is there a way to post photos without having a flickr/photobucket/other account? I thought there'd be an attachment button somewhere. Sorry!
So last summer some friends and I were in the IOW and it was suggested a visit to Blackgang should take place. I won't post a long history that's well known but suffice to say those cliff faces keep crumbling (!) so I imagine they'll be moving it again in the not too distant future. What's left of the old amusement park is still there in bits and pieces, as shown below (hopefully...). Out of the few of us that were there, I was the only one that wanted to have a look. The end of the road, literally, drops off the cliff. That surprised me, it was even more of a sharp drop than in the pictures I'd seen previously. The other thing that surprised me was the amount of sheer filth that had been chucked on the part of the road that had fallen away - doors, buckets, pipes...
So I got around to the roundabout merry-go-round and the other concrete structure (any ideas?) and realised that I was standing three foot away from the edge of a many foot drop into the sea. As this was my first explore you can imagine the nerves, which was not helped by my friends' calling "we cant see you, have you fallen off? Have you died yet?" - these are the people I choose to go on holiday with. I would've gone further up to the other structure but, in all honesty, I was more concerned with getting off of a cliff edge. So pictures were taken, nothing you haven't seen before, but I thought it better to have something to bring to the table. I did take a few shops of the curry house which is also empty, but only from the outside. If anyone would like to see these you're more than welcome to.
And yes, it still spins like new.
Cheers,
Dilapidated
Edit: Apologies for being new, is there a way to post photos without having a flickr/photobucket/other account? I thought there'd be an attachment button somewhere. Sorry!