This is a site I’ve explored many times, probably one of the sites I have explored the most in fact, but yet it still manages to throw up new things when you go off the beaten track a little bit. After seeing a pic by a friend of something I hadnt seen, i decided to [...]
For a bit of a change, rather than just shooting empty derelict buildings, a fellow and I headed up to an asylum today with on of his friends to do a bit of a model shoot in a local asylum. A fun day, and got quite a few pics I was happy with:
A few of [...]
Hellingly Asylum, or East Sussex County Mental asylum was opened in 1903, another of the asylums to be attributed to the great G.T. Hine, which is evident as soon as you look at the facade of the buildings or the brown tiling in corridors etc. Built in woodlands nearby to Hellingly in the very south [...]
The Wallsend Borough Theatre opened in 1910, designed and built by J Fleming Davidson & C D James and became Wallsend’s main theatre following the Corned Beef Tin theatre being burned down some 4 years previous. An operating box at the rear of the circle was installed in 1911 making this capable of being both [...]
Inverkip Power Station is located on the east coast of Scotland at the Firth of Clyde, near to the town of Inverkip with which it shares a name. Construction of the site began in 1970 and ran to an estimated cost of £200 million, aiming for production of 1,900 MW of electricity. Destined to be [...]
Being the first lunatic asylum in Wales, the North Wales Hospital (Denbigh Asylum) was built between 1844 and its opening in 1848. The need for the asylum had been of pressing importance, as with no formal mental facilities in Wales there was a severe lacking in sufficient care for mental patients of welsh origin and [...]
I was recently contacted by Photographer magazine of Ukraine (not a lot of point in clicking as it is in cyrillic) magainze and asked if i would do an article on Urbex and HDR, which i agreed to do.
As the magazine wont be in english print, unless the article gets syndicated to one of their [...]
The official name for this location being the “Kenton Bar, 13 Group Fighter Command Headquarters”, the location of which first chosen in September 1939 due to its near central location in the 13 Group coverage area. It took approximately 3 months to construct the underground complex below the existing above ground installation, and a further [...]
In 1909 Broadhead & Graves purchased the Mill at Kirkheaton and rapidly developed a successful business establishing a reputation for manufacturing superfine worsteds and especially for milled and semi-milled qualities
H.R.H. The Duke of York visited the mill in 1932 at which time he was presented with some lengths of cloth and six years later, as [...]
There isn’t a whole lot I can tell you about this place, other than the fact that it opened in 1963. I can’t even seem to find any information about when it closed, though I have sent mails to a few local rail enthusiast clubs so if I get anything back I will update this [...]
