Morgue P Slab

Urbex: Morgue P, Down South, United Kingdom – December 2013 (revisit)

History Part of a live Hospital complex this abandoned morgue is a small little building but it has the capacity for 56 bodies! Morgue P also has 3 metal slabs, although one appears to have lost its horizontal part. Natural decay is really taking its tolls here now and the place was much more run…

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CMH Corridor

Urbex: CMH The Military Hospital, LMM Annex, United Kingdom – December 2013 (revisit 2)

History There is a little more history on my first report from CHM in February 2013. Briefly the Main CMH hospital building was built in 1879 and featured heavily during the first world war in dealing with front line casualties. The hospital is also famous for being the place where plastic surgery was first performed in…

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Whittingham Asylum

Urbex: Whittingham Asylum, Goosnargh, Lancashire – December 2013 (revisit 5)

It was Boxing day, we decided to have a bit of a gathering for a few beverages and a bit of lunch in the main hall 🙂 Visited with too many people to count let alone list! We staggered our entries and exits and everyone managed to get in and out without a hitch 🙂 I cant say I’m the biggest fan of large group explores but every now and again when the situation calls for it they can be a laugh!

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National Gas Turbine Establishment Pyestock Air House Cooling Towers

Urbex: National Gas Turbine Establishment aka NGTE Pyestock, Fleet – December 2013 (revisit 2)

History Some of you may be familiar with some of the history surrounding the mammoth site that was the National Gas Turbine Establishment Pyestock near Fleet. If not be sure to check out my first report for a bit more detail about the whole site and loads more photos before the demolition First visit in…

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CMH Corridor

Urbex: CMH The Military Hospital, LMM Annex, United Kingdom – December 2013 (revisit)

History There is a little more history on my first report from CHM in February 2013. Briefly the Main CMH hospital building was built in 1879 and featured heavily during the first world war in dealing with front line casualties. The hospital is also famous for being the place where plastic surgery was first performed…

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Rossendale General Hospital

Urbex: Rossendale General Hospital, Rossendale, Lancashire – December 2013 (revisit 6)

History For a bit more of a detailed run down on the history of the now abandoned, soon to be completely demolished, Rossendale Hospital check the report from the first visit in January 2013. Briefly, the site started out as a workhouse for the poor built at some point in the late 1800. The site…

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Urbex: RAF Santa’s Grotto, United Kingdom – December 2013

This now abandoned RAF Airbase was for some years under United States Air Force control but later handed back to British RAF control. It was known for housing an early warning mortar detection system. Most of the contents of the base have been strip. The place closed only recently in 2013 so most of the…

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The Horror Labs The Basement of Jars

Urbex: The Horror Labs, Belgium – November 2013

The famous Horror Labs. They were top of my list of places to see for well over a year or so now and it was my most anticipated location of this trip! Along with the regulars Dystopia, Baron Scotland and Lowri, we were joined by Yann Shee for this little adventure. Once inside we went straight to see the jackpot at this place deep inside the dark basement the shelves full of preserved dead animal body parts…

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La Bobbins

Urbex: La Bobbins Clothing Factory, Belgium – November 2013

Not a lot to say on this one, a small abandoned clothing factory, well I say small the place was actually quite big! Not a lot of stuff left behind some fabrics and a few old Bobbins. Nice little relaxed mooch 🙂 Enjoy the few photos I got: Others from the European Tour: Château Gramophone…

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Schola CLXXV Monastery

Urbex: Schola CLXXV Monastery, Belgium – November 2013

History I don’t really know a lot of information about this place code named Schola CLXXV. It was a monastery with an attached school and this lovely chapel. Externally, from the main chapel doors, the place looks quite unassuming, however when viewed from the back it soon became obvious how large the place actually was.…

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Ushaw Seminary

Urbex: Ushaw Seminary, Durham – November 2013

The abandoned Ushaw College, a former Catholic seminary and Licensed Hall of Residence of the University of Durham, covers 400 acres and lies derelict in the village of Ushaw Moor in the UK. It was founded in 1808 by scholars from English College, Douai, who had fled France after that college had been closed during the French Revolution…

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St Johns Asylum aka The Lincolnshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylu

Urbex: The Lincolnshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum – November 2013 (revisit 2)

History My 4th trip to the abandoned St Johns Asylum in Lincoln. Full history and photos from the first 3 visits can be found in the report from September 2012 & report from May 2013. Briefly the Asylum was built in 1852 and enlarged on several subsequent occasions in 1859, 1866, 1881 and 1902.  The asylum finally…

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Silverlands The Blue Room

Urbex: Another Orphanage, Somewhere – November 2013

Not much to say an old Orphanage building with some stunning features on the ground floor! Some awesome chandeliers and decorative coving / ceiling roses and lots of nice wood work! I’ve fancied checking out this place for along time but only this year seen more pictures of the other rooms which are extremely impressive…

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Battersea Power Station

Urbex: Battersea Power Station, London – November 2013

History Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Battersea, an inner-city district of South West London. It comprises two individual power stations, built in two stages in the form of a single building. Battersea A Power Station was built in the 1930s, with…

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Pilkington Glass Factory

Urbex: Pilkington Glass, Doncaster, South Yorkshire – November 2013 (revisit)

Pilkington Glass Factory. Just over a year on from my first trip to this abandoned glass factory it was time for a revisit to see how things were looking. Unlike last time we bypassed the bridge and found that gaining entry was trickier than before. The land is now being utilised for railway sleeper storage…

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