Cropped up while looking at filming locations for Skyfall.
http://www.eloquent-web-and-graphic-design.com/featured_sites/abandoned_places/index.html
Some fascinating pics and stories.
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Lovely, love desolate places 😛
Sad place this one though
http://www.eloquent-web-and-graphic-design.com/featured_sites/abandoned_places/pripyat.html
I went to a place in Oz called Wittenoom and abandoned asbestos mining town that is now wiped of the map, spooky doesn't do it justice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenoom,_Western_Australia
If you're into that kind of thing, check out http://www.28dayslater.co.uk - disclaimer, I'm a mod on there 🙂
And to plug my own site a bit: http://www.transientplaces.co.uk
There's loads of good stuff around in the UK if you look...
We regularly trek to some of the many abandoned places around the UK. Really fascinating. The best ever where some old mining towns in outback Australia, though.
Wittenoom and abandoned asbestos mining town that is now wiped of the map, spooky doesn't do it justice.
It's on Streetview on Google maps! 😯
Interesting read. Very sad about the French town.
How about some of Detroit?
http://www.businessinsider.com/grossingers-catskills-photos-2011-6?op=1
Wow.
http://www.forgottendetroit.com/
Disturbing.
My underpants.
CFH Official maps....
Unfortunately, we once found ourselves having a holiday in godawful Cyprus. We did rent out a little moped and rode to the nearest point in the south where you can view Varosha. Terrible story. I'd give anything to be able to roam around it for a day. It was about the most interesting few hours of the holiday.
Great links bencooper; interesting to see Eastmoor Boys Home out in Meanwood Valley (Leeds) on 28dayslater, we ride through there on our night rides and it is CREEPY.
Shots of the derelict main building at Highroyds mental hospital were cool as well, I did my nurse training up there and ,again, a very atmospheric place, the shots if it empty only adding to the strange vibe of the place.
Interesting link
I've seen some photos of Monserratt in the Carribean, largely deserted since the volcanic eruption, everything covered in sulphur ash
Gonna check some of these links out shortly!
In the meantime, this place: [url= http://www.darkroastedblend.com/ ]DarkRoastedBlend[/url] has some GREAT pics. Lost towns, ekranoplans, Russian hydrofoils...
I find 28DL utterly absorbing. some of the pics on there are stunning.
Wow that 28DL sites amazing. I used to go to the snooker club in Stafford at a weekend, amazing to see it inside now. Remember the house rules really well. Great site.
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Have a look at Derelict London... It's another great site.
Or, if you like all the underground stuff try Subrit.org..
Ben Cooper - loving your pictures! and I only looked at the power station ones. Inverkip's an impressive place.
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> http://www.businessinsider.com/grossingers-catskills-photos-2011-6?op=1Wow.
That *really* looks like a building from one of the Call of Duty MW games. Especially the swimming pool bit!
Ferkin brilliant thread.
Well done Sir.
Muchos enjoyos.
I ride past Limehouse Public Library on occasion, such a lovely building, bit of a busy road though, that limehouse link.
Hmmmm, thanks, I think. I have a horrible feeling that I've just been given access to an even greater number of time sinks than Flipboard and STW! I'll be checking all these links out in the near future, I love this kind of stuff.
I drove through an abandoned Albanian village last week where the occupants had either been massacred or driven out by the Azeri's. It was pretty chilling to see the place dessimated and there was still a heavy army presence kicking about so didnt get out for a walk round to take pictures unfortunately.
Just looked like a nuclear bomb had been dropped on the place
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seen 28dl before but some seriously cool stuff on this thread
Sorry Armenia, not Albania
I've done a bit of this kind of stuff too - great fun climbing walls and dodging security etc!
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/grum_wynne/5711541688/ ]St George's Works-8[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/grum_wynne/ ]Grum Wynne[/url], on Flickr
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I've always fancied visiting [url= http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/california-city.html ]California City[/url] - abandoned before it was even built. Just a bunch of lines in the desert but in google maps the lines have street names
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although its not totally abandoned one or two people [url= http://goo.gl/maps/DNZPh ]actually live there[/url]. As you zoom out you realise thats got to be a very weird experience.
Good stuff, I do love a big Fourdrinier machine 🙂
[url= http://www.flickr.com/groups/derelict-buildings/ ]takes forever to wade through[/url] 🙂
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Fantastic links, there goes my morning!
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The [url= http://www.peterberthoud.co.uk/2012/02/most-interesting-underpants-london/ ]most interesting underpants[/url] in London
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i lurk on 28dl from time to time when i have time to kill (like the last 2 weeks)
love the invergordon fuel storage units and the forgotten rivers under bristol postings
beardy man always makes me laugh, pops up in just about every report about a certain welsh asylum "your under arrest"
[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/29591209@N06/7939389410/sizes/k/in/pool-63363559@N00/ ]anyone for gothic horror[/url] ?
into about or urban exploring myself. not on the scale of some folk , but not been doing it long.
great thread by the way, i can lose hours looking around 28days later and similar sites
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/mhampshire/sets/ ]some of my efforts[/url]
love the invergordon fuel storage units
Non of those posts seem to show the tanks themselves. I knew some guys that got inside them to film - Amazing with a capital A. They are the size and shape of cathedral naves. A quick search suggests they've never put any of the film or images online though.
Love a bit of 28DL and similar, find that sort of stuff fascinating.
maccruiskeen - Member
The most interesting underpants in London
I lived in Bowes Park for a few years, those pants have been like that since about 1998! Nice write up... I see you've captured the creepy Naxos school uniform dummy as well!
The door ajar,
Browning motion suggests.
In the air, stirs memory
of bygons, long gone.
Highlights of gold,
accent the space.
day timed, a glance
slowlike, regular & undisturbing.
(c)nutt2012
I regularly check in on 28DL, I used to work at Cwm Coking Works Beddau which seems to be a popular subject matter on there.
Some awsome photography on that site.
@captainflasheart, where was the lowest picture from of your first post? Guys, so many fascinating pictures and no explanation of them to allow further investigation! come on, be fair!
Thats [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanzhi_UFO_houses ]San Zhi[/url] in Taiwan
Non of those posts seem to show the tanks themselves. I knew some guys that got inside them to film - Amazing with a capital A. They are the size and shape of cathedral naves. A quick search suggests they've never put any of the film or images online though.
I've definitely seen pics from a permission visit - can't remember if it was on Sub Brit or on Flickr.
Oh, and me last night:
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Surrounded by a couple of dozen 45,000l whisky tanks. Empty, sadly, though still smelled lovely 🙂
I've just gone and bought me a decent camera to get me into some of this!!!
Thanks guys for the inspiration.
Some of you may know Fowlmead Country Park near Deal,Kent,which used to be a colliery slag heap/tip.There are two other disused tips nearby,Tilmanstone and Snowdown which I ride.Sometimes do a ride to link all three.
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The visit to Chernobyl by american photographer Trey Ratcliff has intrigued me since i first read his blog [url= http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2007/02/02/nuclear-winter-in-chernobyl/ ]Stuck in Customs[/url]
One day i would love to go.!!
The images on the urbex sites is amazing... lost loads of hours on 28 DL...
A friend of mine was lucky enough to go to Pripyat a few years ago.
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maccruiskeen - Member
The most interesting underpants in London
Thats just round the bl00dy corner from me and I never knew about...going to have a look !
28DL addicted already !
Now wasting time on 28DL...
Spent Monday and Friday this week trying to gain entry into this place:
Not my pics btw.
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Sadly, looks like the place has been well and truly sealed, unless you're the size of a five year old.
Nice big steel door on the front and the tricky to find alternative entrance has also been blocked. Tried a second altenative in the easier quarry to the right at the back but again, no joy.
Found a rather beautiful lagoon, very Moria, but can't seem to find a way in.
Gutted, as I believe it was open until a few months ago.
Love 28DL, have been a member for a while but not posted yet - everywhere I've been, mostly old quarry sites and the odd cinema has been really comprehensively covered previously.
If anyone has any ideas about how to access this place, I'd be really, really happy to hear them.
Ta!
Aye, it's sealed very tight last I heard - a shame, it's a fantastic place inside. Wales is absolutely stuffed with underground things, though - this isn't too far away:
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Gherdeal in Romania....amazing lost village
Don't know that one Ben.
If it's the other side of the valley, it's in a bit I've not come across yet. I'll keep looking 😀
We stay in the old powder store across the lake, so always poking about in big holes over there.
Have had a play in the granite quarry at Trefor and up on Parys Mountain on Anglesey, both stunning places.
Will keep checking on the place above, sure someone will crack it again sooner or later.
Looks like the area might be about to be developed though - lots of new roads and infrastructure in there since the latest Google Maps images from earlier this year - hope it's not lost for good.
*speechless*
I stayed virtually in the middle of Beelitz Heilstatten two weeks ago with work. Awesome place.
RS - I had heard about some development - something industrial maybe? Don't know - cant see that they'd use the bomb store itself.
I presume you've done Dinorwic - up to Australia level and all that? There's also Cwmorthin and Rhiwbach - they're very good if you want underground stuff. We normally go stay with my mother-in-law in Bangor, and even found a lovely disused college right next door.
RS - I had heard about some development - something industrial maybe?
Looks like it - sewerage is in, more street lights and a new road linking the store level to the top road.
I presume you've done Dinorwic - up to Australia level and all that?
Our climbing club hut is the old powder store for Dinorwic:
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I draw the line at climbing some of the ladders and the chain though - I know how old they are. 🙂
Been up to the top splitting shed, the old caban with the kettle/clothes hung up, the generator/old water tank etc.
Love the tunnels through to California and Australia, but not been down to the Lost World yet.
Spent hours messing about in Vivian Quarry, Anglesey Barracks and in Padarn Country Park - one of my favourite places anywhere.
There's also Cwmorthin and Rhiwbach - they're very good if you want underground stuff.
Cheers for that - will have a look when we're down in the new year.
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Orador Sur Glane, Limousin, France. Very, very chilling
just a little comment to those exploring old tunnels filled with steam pipes, ancient boiler rooms and old industrial sites, FFS take disposable overalls and a decent orinasal respirator. Those places are usually riddled with asbestos in poor condition.
other than that it's ace fun!
To go back to the first topic I think this may be from Skyfall
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Cropped up while looking at filming locations for Skyfall.
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Some more here from the same site, these are of a Buzludzha the abandoned communist concrete flying saucer from Bulgaria
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There must be many more buildings like that that now lay unused..
Looked up the Japanese coal-mining island also- mental eh?
wandered around a lot of old, strange abandoned places with work. Only one I really didn't like was an old pharma testing facility where they used great apes, to come across cells with orang and chimp hand prints on the wall and then go further down a corridor to the operating room.....fk me. Made me cry to be honest....
Abandoned toyota dealership
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Locked away in 74 had to climb down a rickety collapsed stair case to get to the underground car park.
can give some locations of very cool places on the QT as well if urban explorers are interested.
I was really surprised to see news recently that [url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/g88ber/sets/72157623833704138/ ]Polphail[/url] is going to be demolished - I thought it already [i]had[/i] been demolished otherwise I'd have gone to see it this summer
wandered around a lot of old, strange abandoned places with work. Only one I really didn't like was an old pharma testing facility where they used great apes...
in the UK?
in the UK?
yep was R&D facility for some "interesting" things