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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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/abackwell/1458864933/ ]Ferris Wheel[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/abackwell/ ]redcrayon[/url], on Flickr
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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.
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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
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
This is true, though actually pigeon poo is a more realistic respiratory worry - if you don't mess with asbestos it won't mess with you. But as with all exploring, knowledge and common sense come in to play. Underground places also have other problems - coal mines, for instance, you really don't mess with unless you know exactly what you're doing.
Right, because you know great apes have not been used in any UK research facility for, literally, decades 😕
great ape testing wasn't banned in the uk unitll '86. The Americans still use chimps
the facility was mothballed, we were in, in the early 90's. The place was literally locked up and not mentioned on the site like a dirty secret.
This is true, though actually pigeon poo is a more realistic respiratory worry - if you don't mess with asbestos it won't mess with you.
psittacosis is a far lower risk than exposure to asbetos fibres from exposed and damaged lagging, aib etc...fibres on damaged material can readily become airborne or with disturbance of settled dusts containing fibres.
The Americans still use chimps
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Yes, so close observation is needed, and don't disturb stuff 😉
always a good move ben 😀
Worst I've had wasn't asbestos, it was fibreglass dust - climbing Inverkip power station chimney, it's one of the tallest freestanding structures in the country, and the flue lagging was falling off so it was full of fibreglass. Climbing 1060 steps wearing a full respirator was not fun 😉
Contrarily, I went into a Cold War bunker in Edinburgh wearing full PPE, as it was supposed to be riddled with asbestos - it was a bit unnerving to see all the dust floating in the air. Then later it was properly inspected by new owners and I got to go back with permission - turns out it was only plaster dust, not a trace of asbestos in it...
some of the old/original london underground lines and abandoned stations are bloomin freaky as well
