UE themed portraits/self-portraits - 2

[Wrench]

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This is a cracking shot

 

[J_a_t_33]

This is a cracking shot

Thanks man! I'm envious of your pics!

 

[Hopeyouguessmyname]

Courtesy of Tbolt

 

[cogito]

Autumn is always a good time of year for a splash of colour

 

[Cuban B.]

A couple of knackered places:

 

[Cuban B.]

A place I'd waited ten years to get in, and it was a shithole - a nice shithole:

Lounging in the club:
Antisocial Club by Jim Beam, on Flickr

 

[Cuban B.]

Young Davey T. after more coal:

 

[night crawler]

What possessed you to go in there

 

[Cuban B.]

In search of seams of coal.

 

[cogito]

Seeing that this place is gearing up to open in the next few months, thought I'd have a look through the archives.

 

[cogito]

And another from the same iconic place, this time featuring the infamous girder ladder.

 

[Hayman]

And another from the same iconic place, this time featuring the infamous girder ladder.View attachment 518456

You used the vertical girders as ladders?!!

 

[cogito]

You used the vertical girders as ladders?!!

Where that photo was taken is about two floors up already, off the edge to the right is just a drop amongst a mesh of girders.

The ladder you see on the right of the photo, precariously balanced on a girder, resting against another girder, leans out over the drop. It's a very tight squeeze at the top of the ladder between two girders to make it up to the top, definitely no room to have a backpack on.

The only thing stopping the ladder from sliding off the girder it was resting on was the rounded rivets.

It was only way up the Control Room A for a long time.

Once up at the Control Room level, you could get up to the roof by climbing the girders though. Here's a photo of me just reaching the top:

And a closer up photo of the ladder:

Totally worth it

 

[Hayman]

Where that photo was taken is about two floors up already, off the edge to the right is just a drop amongst a mesh of girders.

The ladder you see on the right of the photo, precariously balanced on a girder, resting against another girder, leans out over the drop. It's a very tight squeeze at the top of the ladder between two girders to make it up to the top, definitely no room to have a backpack on.

The only thing stopping the ladder from sliding off the girder it was resting on was the rounded rivets.

It was only way up the Control Room A for a long time.

Once up at the Control Room level, you could get up to the roof by climbing the girders though. Here's a photo of me just reaching the top:

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And a closer up photo of the ladder:

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Totally worth it

Thanks a lot. Perhaps a few bungee straps should be part of any explorer's kit - to secure ladders in place, for example. Very hairy drops!