General Urbex Photos Thread! - 2

[cogito]

Random discovery in Rotherham. This one is a bit bizarre. It is literally two heavily scaffolded walls on a plot of land that is currently on the market for £525,000. The land was previously occupied by Beatson Clark, a local bottle manufacturing company for their Head Office.

In most situations like that, it's the case that the facades have been listed rather than the entire building. I've seen quite a few examples of that happening in London, with most of them having entire new buildings been built incorporating the old facades.

In fact, you can see an example of it during construction on Google Streetview, on Brushfield Street south of Spitalfields Market.

 

[HughieD]

Another market town, another random empty sealed-up building. This one is the former corn exchange building in Newark. It dates from 1848 and like the name suggests, it was a corn exchange for merchants and farmers. It was a bingo hall from 1971 to 1993 and then a dance/night-club from 1994 to 2011. It has been empty since then. Honeybars Leisure Ltd wanted to re-open the Castlegate venue as part of a £2m refurbishment. However their business plan required a licence that allowed late night drinking but in the face of the licensing restrictions not being relaxed the plan to re-open it was ditched.

Here is the property spec from Pygott and Crone. Annual rent of £80,000 p.a. Blimey!

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Nicely Done

 

[Sam Haltin]

Nice building and with lovely architecture but at £80,000 a year rental I think I'll give this one a miss.

 

[mookster]

Stuff from Scotland I didn't take enough photos of to warrant separate posts for each...

The White House

This is possibly the weirdest place I've explored - from the outside it looks stunning but inside tells a sorry tale. Construction began in the early 1700s but was halted in 1723, and since then many different owners have tried and failed to finish the building. There haven't been any major works carried out since the late 1990s and for now it sits in a strange state. Half of the rooms on the inside have been panelled with cheap wood board screwed onto metal runners which in turn have been bolted straight to the old stone walls. It's all incredibly cheap, and the upstairs is pretty much a no-go now as water ingress through the roof has turned the soft wood 'floor' into mush.

Strathmartine Hospital

One of the urbex dinosaurs, we could only find a way into the burned main building and from there we could go nowhere else as all the floors around us had collapsed or were collapsing.

The Crypt

A small family crypt on a hill in rural Scotland, it's a beautiful little gem of a spot completely undisturbed by anyone.

Thanks

 

[HughieD]

Superb trio there Mook.

 

[HughieD]

Bit of a wander round Kelham in Sheffield....very little to explore these days sadly.

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[SlimJim]

Exploring some old tank barracks with Conrad. We seem to traditionally meet over the Christmas period and settled on this Soviet derpage, as I wasn't going to be in England over the festive period. Nothing great inside. No murals, just smashed windows and some dull looking halls. Haven't seen anything so wrecked since St.Augustines to be honest. Was lulzy none the less though. Conrad doing his "ultra mega stealth" skit and subsequent awkward enncounter with some confused bacon-like German kid, bumping into what seemed to be a homeless bloke who wished us a merry Christmas and somehow walking through a wrecked building and coming out in Lidl's car park without hinderence or obstacle made us chuckle. Lots of people milling around here on the whole. We also saw a bloke metal detecting...god knows why with all the rubbish and not seen were people actively trashing one of the buildings.

 

[TK421]

TK421's travels - Holy Trinity Church, Cottam

Howdy......not enough for a report, but here we have the lovely Cottam church in East Riding.

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The Victorian church was built to serve the scattered farms and hamlets in the area. In 1856 there had still been ‘a small, plain, ancient building’ but that church was replaced in 1890 by the brick building known as Holy Trinity chapel. By the 1950s, this was said to have ‘long been derelict’ (Whiteing 1952-5, 6), and by 1970 it was in ruins.

Had to wait for the cows to go for milking, but what a cracking little building.

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Cheers

 

[oldscrote]

A nice old building that,is that a set of stanton shelter castings in the last picture?

 

[TK421]

Thanks mate, yes it is, not sure why its there tbh

 

[mookster]

A few from possibly my last proper explore of 2017 - Navigation Colliery in south Wales. The place is looked after by a team of volunteers, although we didn't know this beforehand so we were a little surprised when we turned up and managed to drive straight in. Really great bunch of people who were more than happy for us to wander around and take photos.

The bath house had, at some point, suffered a large fire which had removed a lot of the roof. The interior was so badly affected by fire and weather damage that there is really only one room which is still intact.

 

[krela]

It's where they mined pot noodles.

 

[HughieD]

Very windy weather over at Redmires reservoir today...here's the overflow funnel and an old abandoned keeper's cottage:

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[Cuban B.]

A strange porcelain table, in the 'Lost' Asylum:

 

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What a carve up!

 

[Cuban B.]

Stripped turbines:

 

[Sam Haltin]

Where's the photo of a strange porcelain table in the 'Lost' Asylum and the photo of the stripped turbines and why does the link to the Flicker page not work?

 

[UrbexExplorers]

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmcfiqkb

my recent adventure to an abandoned farmhouse out in the Leicestershire countryside such a beautiful location frozen in time


Leicestershires Abandoned Farmhouse by shaun patterson, on Flickr

Leicestershires Abandoned Farmhouse by shaun patterson, on Flickr

 

[jadewest94]

I live 5 minutes from here and at christmas time they do fayres and on weekends they do bootsales!