RAF Upwood, September 2015

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Great explore this and has been on the list for quite some time now, only being an hour or so away. Unfortunately we did not manage to enter the hospital section as it is now half demolished and appeared to have somewhat eagle eyed secca watching over it and the rumors I had heard of the aircraft hangars recently being vacated are not confirmed as we could not find an access point.

While exploring it became a little film set explore venture after watching The Devils Chair the night before which was recorded at RAF Upwood under the fictional name of Blackwater Asylum. Never making a big screen film, its well worth a watch..

There is plenty of other reports with the history on this place so I will leave that bit out.

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Nicely done Squire. I never get tired of those tanks :D

Was one of the main things we went to see ;)

I saw your report too, nice shots! What day did you go, there were a fair few other urbexers there when I was there Sunday.
 
Was one of the main things we went to see ;)

I saw your report too, nice shots! What day did you go, there were a fair few other urbexers there when I was there Sunday.

Ah I went on the Saturday :D Lots when we went too. Airsofters and a chick in underwear as well :p I think it's always seen a lot of activity, but perhaps more so now that people know about it's impending doom. Saying that UrbanX provided some useful info and reckons only the med centre is on the immediate chopping block for now.
 
Ah I went on the Saturday :D Lots when we went too. Airsofters and a chick in underwear as well :p I think it's always seen a lot of activity, but perhaps more so now that people know about it's impending doom. Saying that UrbanX provided some useful info and reckons only the med centre is on the immediate chopping block for now.

Ah haha wasn't you then :p

There wasn't any airsofters when I was there but we did find an un-used airsoft grenade ;)

Funny you mention the chick in underwear, we stumbled across someone doing a photoshoot as well. Left them to it and came back later to find her in next to nothing on the tank :p

Gutted we didn't see the hospital to be honest.
 
Ah haha wasn't you then :p

There wasn't any airsofters when I was there but we did find an un-used airsoft grenade ;)

Funny you mention the chick in underwear, we stumbled across someone doing a photoshoot as well. Left them to it and came back later to find her in next to nothing on the tank :p

Gutted we didn't see the hospital to be honest.

Aye we were pretty gutted n all :(

Was it a fat guy in a blue polo with a logo on it, with a chick and a dude with tattoos? We initially thought they were surveyors or some kind of officials because they were wearing pretty utilitarian clothes and there was a silver estate parked outside the gates with a ladder on top.
 
Aye we were pretty gutted n all :(

Was it a fat guy in a blue polo with a logo on it, with a chick and a dude with tattoos? We initially thought they were surveyors or some kind of officials because they were wearing pretty utilitarian clothes and there was a silver estate parked outside the gates with a ladder on top.

To be honest mate, I just saw a person and everyone made an escape rather sharpish haha. So didn't get a good look of them...

Weirdest one though was in the building opposite the hospital, we were looking around as always and got to a window at the back to find a couple with their kid who can't have been any older than 5 just walking around the perimeter fence surrounding the hospital.
 
Ace photos sir!
Lol, surprised you two didn't bump into each other! It is a bit of an "Urbex country park" round there at weekends! :)
 
On behalf of all those at upwood in their underwear doing photoshoots, please leave us alone, having young men loitering inconspicuously is rather off putting, and scary...
 
On behalf of all those at upwood in their underwear doing photoshoots, please leave us alone, having young men loitering inconspicuously is rather off putting, and scary...

That's what tends to happen when you are in your underwear in semi public places, they have just as much right to be there as you do... Letching and perving however is never acceptable in any circumstance.
 
On behalf of all those at upwood in their underwear doing photoshoots, please leave us alone, having young men loitering inconspicuously is rather off putting, and scary...

Upwood is a well trodden path on the "tourist trail" to be fair. I could think of quieter derps to do an underwear shoot. I think me & Pb were pretty good, we just said hello and cleared off :D I think that goes for most people really, they just keep to themselves if other people are around on sites.
 
I dont often wear just underwear at these places for shoots, usually far more covered up lol but c'mon, how many togs do shoots there every week? probably a few! And i would have minded far less had they at least awknowledged they actually saw me, say hi or whatever, instead of hanging around like the dirty mac brigade, i thought peeping toms went outof fashion in the 70s!

I can get why people are intrigued, happens all the time, as soon as i get light stands out and attach an octobox, i get questions like "are you professional" or "are you taking photos" well the latter yes, i am obviously taking photos, but professional, no, not a bit pro, but it looks kinda pro i know that, and i love conversing with strangers about my art, interaction with others is always welcomed on my shoots but creepy young men in tracky bottoms is a distraction.

ANd for what its worth, i, like anyone, have the right to wear what i want without having the unwanted attention that occured yesterday, so women should be covered up? very sexist attitude, belongs in the 70s with peeping toms.
 
As I said, quite clearly, letching and perving is never acceptable.

*And as a forum that encourages respect, I would hope people reading this act accordingly.

I've done quite a few shoots myself, and the worst one was where a bunch of kids (14ish) were trying to hit my friends ass with a bb gun out of a nearby window. We also got shot at with a proper air rifle, that was fun. Sadly people being creeps, and being annoying etc is a vague inevitability, I absolutely don't agree with it but it's likely to happen either way. There are lots of idiots, creeps and "lads" around, but hopefully not so many on this forum.
 
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For what its worth, i am quite sure whoever they were yesterday were not members of this site, just the usual chavs who like being annoying, i didnt see any camera's on them so pretty sure they never took any cheeky photos of me without knowing (despite being in underwear, i was bloody careful, i have to be, i work alone, but i can handle myself when threatened).

Many years ago i did a shoot there with another model, some kids threw masonry at us, i llost my temper, took my heels off and chased them onto the roof in nothing but a latex catsuit, like a kinky ninja. They soon buggered off, but that was a one off, never had that happen since.

Sorry if i seemed a bit ranty earlier but yesterday really got my goat! And if anyone does see me, say hi ffs lol.

Re upwoods future, was really sad to see that hospital being pulled down, its not even that old a bilding surely? Never got to go inside and i now regret that so much, be really sad when upwood does finally go for good :(
 
Oosh yeah, that's a pretty vulnerable position to be in. A kinky ninja lol, all you need is cat ears and a tail and you'd be catwoman.

The hospital was built to serve the USAF not the NHS, a new USAF medical centre was built at the still active RAF Alconbury to replace this one.
 
I would have loved to have seen the look on the face as you chased them.bet iT was priceless lol
 
For what its worth, i am quite sure whoever they were yesterday were not members of this site, just the usual chavs who like being annoying, i didnt see any camera's on them so pretty sure they never took any cheeky photos of me without knowing (despite being in underwear, i was bloody careful, i have to be, i work alone, but i can handle myself when threatened).

Many years ago i did a shoot there with another model, some kids threw masonry at us, i llost my temper, took my heels off and chased them onto the roof in nothing but a latex catsuit, like a kinky ninja. They soon buggered off, but that was a one off, never had that happen since.

Sorry if i seemed a bit ranty earlier but yesterday really got my goat! And if anyone does see me, say hi ffs lol.

Re upwoods future, was really sad to see that hospital being pulled down, its not even that old a bilding surely? Never got to go inside and i now regret that so much, be really sad when upwood does finally go for good :(

Agreed with above haha! Their faces would have been priceless...

While I was there last weekend I bumped into someone else on a photoshoot, a guy on his own doing a spot of graffiti which looked terrible as well and as I was leaving a group of kids who much have been around 14 walked by and overhearing their conversation they were more worried about getting caught than anything.

Funny you mention the hospital, I thought the same.. the most modern building out of everything was being demolished, yet the rest still remained.
 
I did hear the locals wanted the hospital renovated and turned into a community hospital...obviously that is not going to happen now.it was fairly trashed in there.but structurally still sound.when me and rubex went there was kids wandering around everywhere and she spotted some just chilling on the roof tiles.great report by the way urbexdevil
 
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To be honest I'm trying to find an excuse to go back... Not for the derp, but to see what kind of crazy stuff happens and what kind of people turn up! :D
 

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