2nd visit to this place the history can be found here from my September 2008 visit If you’ve made it this far… thanks for reading / checking out the pictures. Leave me a comment below or hit the like button to let me know you’ve enjoyed the shots and to encourage me to keep posting more 🙂 Limited Edition…
Read detailsMirfield Mill aka Holdsworth’s Card Clothing Mill. I don’t really know any history to this place, couldn’t find much on the web. I do believe it has since been demolished, I haven’t seen it for myself but google searches point to that conclusion…
Read detailsThe hospital was opened in the 1930s. Each of the villas housed up to 50 patients but as the years passed the number gradually declined, especially with the advent of “Care In The Community”. As far as I can tell the site closed sometime in 2006 and has since become target somewhat by local youths and people stealing scrap metals…
Read detailsHunslet Mill was constructed by William Fairbairn for John Wilkinson and completed circa 1842. By 1847 some 1,500 female staff were employed in the mill reeling flax. It was occupied by a firm of linen manufacturers called Richard Buckton and Son from 1868[ and then by a firm of blanket weavers called Dodgson and Hargreaves from the mid 1920s until it closed in 1966…
Read detailsI’m not going to sugar coat this one… probably one of the most boring explored I’ve done even to this date. Closed early 2008 and was stripped by the owners then to a greater extent pikies before being left in the condition I found it in early October…
Read detailsPioneer House is a Victorian Grade II listed building sited on Halifax Road in the centre of Dewsbury. Built in 1872 for the Dewsbury Co-op society who were later known as Dewsbury Pioneers’ Industrial Society. Our Urban Exploration visit took place in 2008…
Read detailsThe complex first opened in 1857 as the Leeds Reformatory for Boys.Up to the mid-C19, children who committed crimes were commonly sent to adult prisons as there was no separate provision. The system was superseded by the Borstal system in the early C20 and many reformatories later became approved schools…
Read detailsI don’t know a great deal of background to this one… We established through the couple of documents left behind that this place was once a Yorkshire Bank building possibly some sort of sorting office rather than a customer facing environment perhaps either way it had a nice little surprise in the basement :).
Read detailsThe Gledhow Grove Mansion became part of Chapel Allerton Hospital which was opened in May 1927 by HRH Princess Mary. It was run by the Ministry of Pensions and cost £130,000. It had two hundred beds and catered for former military personnel who had been injured in the Great War…
Read detailsThe Grange Nursing Home in Stamford Bridge near York. Now this place was built in 1880 by a chap named Frederick Wright in a red brick Gothic design. The Mansion was originally named Derwent Hill but was renamed and restored after a fire 1898…
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