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dirge

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An early morning explore of mine this morning. A bit nerve wracking on the ground floor, rather dark and very quiet, good thing I had my Ledlenser!

The place shut back in about 2010 as they built a newer and bigger store further up the road. The site has been purchased by a businessman but nothing seems to be happening with the site.

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You made a good job there Dirge, the brain dead haven't completely ruined it yet and you got some good shots, Nicely Done, Thanks
 
God that's a real mess.hope you got your necar points.great report though.something different
 
The only place I've ever been barred from. It closed in Nov 2010 if I remember correctly. Was wondering when someone would spot the open window and pop in.
 
The only place I've ever been barred from. It closed in Nov 2010 if I remember correctly. Was wondering when someone would spot the open window and pop in.

I didn't know about the place until recently, as I'm from Swansea. Some guy posted a video of his explore on another site & youtube, but stupidly filmed his route in, which as you said was through a window on the roof, I went up prepared to climb the roof, but upon getting there found someone had kicked a fire escape through from the inside. Coincidence? I think so!
 
I didn't know about the place until recently, as I'm from Swansea. Some guy posted a video of his explore on another site & youtube, but stupidly filmed his route in, which as you said was through a window on the roof, I went up prepared to climb the roof, but upon getting there found someone had kicked a fire escape through from the inside. Coincidence? I think so!

It's not exactly difficult to figure out a way in, you can see it from the train going past! It's been open at various points over the past 5 years and was used by homeless people for a little while.
 
It's not exactly difficult to figure out a way in, you can see it from the train going past! It's been open at various points over the past 5 years and was used by homeless people for a little while.

Ah cool, I'm sure it will be sealed back up again soon then.
 
Ummmm, so back in 2007 me and a bunch of friends were very drunk, we went in there about 5AM in the morning and thought it would be really funny to sit on the floor in the foyer and have a picnic because it was raining outside...

Haha that's proper random
 
krela;330167we went in there about 5AM in the morning and thought it would be really funny to sit on the floor in the foyer and have a picnic because it was raining outside...[/QUOTE said:
Very 'drunken person' unfriendly, especially if you were eating their products - or did the Morrisons' bags give the game away? Yes been there, done that - although ours was for eating sausage and chips from local chippy whilst sitting at the outside tables of the local Whimpy Bar. Perhaps slagging off the manager and explaining in no uncertain terms why he never had any customers didn't help matters? Our excuse now is that it was all verbal, no vandalism in those days, that was just around the corner in our neck of the woods.
 

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