"Forbidden City, Portland, 05/08

Once again, me and my friend went along down to the so called "Forbidden City", Portland. Flash Earth Link. This is my 4th time in a month, and this year, I first visited it about 4 years ago, and alot has changed.

Im not sure if this land is still MOD property, like it was signed, but ever way, access is easy, and on 2 times, weve seen a few people down there.

This time, on our way up leaving, we spotted, and got spotted by a white van, but he just smiled, and carreid on leaving, not sure if he was security.
Either way, this was an excellent explore, and fully recommended. UnderItAll.

The view looking down, as I call it, "Main Street".


A creepy looking area, inside the main building.




My favousite picture of all time, indsie one of the small buildings.




One of the other creepy areas, in almost pitch black.








Yet again, like the rest of the place, a horror waiting to happen.


and, to finish it off, the Asylum, which, today we didnt go up to, but inside, sprayed on the wall is "Welcome to the Asylum", and yes, I could soil myself in there on my own.


All these pictures are available to view at My Website although, advanced warning, there are all the photos I took that day, (87) so itll take a while to load, and all the failures too. More photos will come, mainly of the Asylum. UnderItAll.

Cool place, is that by the prison?

Yeha, just to the east of the verne.... Flash Earth link at toppa page..

Your tripod's broken mate! Portland seems to be packed full of exciting stuff, very bleak though. I was there on Saturday ROCing and the weather was bloody awful!

Good pics ... what was it used for before being left ?

Hey, i havent got a tripod, and i think that sum pics look good angeld, and a couple of them, i used a window frame as a tripod, did you go to the one at Blacknor, is it still acessible? And, i have no idead what it was used for, although a building near it, was used as accomodation and ammunation storage.

Nah only Portland Bill.

whn oyu said ROCing, did u mean, rock climbing (iv tried and failed) or ROC post viewing, becasue i dont know of any ROC posts down portland bill, the only one i know of is at Blacknor? have u got a flash earth location?

That looks a great explore, nice 1!!

Anyone wanting to arrange a trip, or know access points, please pm me, maybe we could organise a dorset/portand exploring day

Sorry yeah I meant ROC post visiting

Portland Bill

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That we be the one at Blacknor, it was in the newspaper last year+++ becasue theyve built new flats next to it...which are now finished, shame its locked!!!

Nice one Underitall, thanks for sharing...however your photos are HUGE - they take forever to load! Is there a chance you could resize them?

Sure thing mr.bones, all done, i was going to, and now i have, thanks everone for the comments, all my photos are available to view at My Site but they are all there (87) and it takes AGES to load. Ill make a new page, like a gallery page type thing. Im sure i can find some more explores, and pictures to share with you, its forums like this that got me into photography, and it was only on this explore that i satrted taking pics, not for mysefl, but to share,m and im glad i did, thanks again, Tom.

*EDIT*
Iv decided that it wasnt a good idea to use my websites server for the image hosting, so iv used a hosting site instead, and should load faster, hopefully.

Thanks for that, appreciate the work involved. MUCH better. Place looks pretty interesting

And this is my try at a photomatix generated HDR of my fav pciture I like HDR, looks great, that was generated from 3 of the SAME pictures, and still looks alrite, but ill play around with the tone mapping, to make it a bit more, jazzy...And hopefully, soon, ill be going back there to visit "The Asylum", so ill keep you posted...UnderItALL

Looks like a very interesting explore...enjoy seeing places like this. Good stuff!

That place looks absolutely huge! How long did it take to get around? Some good photos too, enjoyed looking through them on your site.

Thanks for the replies. It took about 1-2 hours to do the lot, but that was mainly becasue i wanted to try and get some better photos, but can take longer, can take less. Iv just got back, again from there taking pics for my other repoert on "The Asylum", which should be posted soon, and we were there again for about 1-2 hours, and found another building on the way back, a different way. Look put for the thread named, "Forbidden City, The Asylum, Portland" UnderItAll.