Urbex: The Forum Cinema, Liverpool – March 2016
The abandoned Forum Cinema which was primarily owned and operated by ABC Cinemas, first opened in the 1930’s and was known to be one of the finest “super cinemas” of the era…
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Urbex: Château Martin du Pecheur, France – February 2016
The abandoned Château Martin du Pecheur. We stopped off at this place during our trip having seen a few older reports, disappointing the few bits of contents that did remain were now gone and the Château was pretty much empty.
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Permission Visit: ET Church, France – February 2016
The ET Church in France, I think quite a few people were under the impression that this place was abandoned but after researching the place a little it became obvious the place was not empty…
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Urbex: Château Secession, France – February 2016
Château Secession, maybe 2016’s busiest location…
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Urbex: Wavertree Memorial Church aka Protestant Martyrs Memorial Church, Liverpool – February 2016
The now abandoned Wavertree Memorial Church aka Protestant Martyrs Memorial Church in Liverpool was founded in 1903 and closed in 2004…
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Urbex: Kirklees College aka Huddersfield Infirmary, Huddersfield – December 2015
Built in 1831 and later expanded in 1902 the Former Huddersfield Infirmary which later became Kirklees Colledge now lays abandoned in its central location…
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Permission Visit: Broughton Printers, Preston – December 2015
Broughton Printers Ltd was originally founded in 1988 and later acquired by Northern & Shell as part of its purchase of the Express Newspapers in 2001. The printers, at its peak, employed 200 staff across the 15,805 m2 site and produced around 11 million newspapers and magazines each day…
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Urbex: The Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden – December 2015
The now abandoned Queen Elizabeth II Hospital was the first major hospital built by the NHS and accommodated 100 patients. in 2015 A new hospital opened on the same site after a £30 million investment in modern services. The old site was closed and earmarked for demolition to make way for a new housing development…
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Urbex: A London rooftop at night, London – December 2015
Yet another visit to London and back to a rooftop I had done before but last time it was a day time trip. Needless to say, I was happy to get back and see this one again after dark as the views really don’t disappoint…
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Urbex: The Royal Hospital Haslar aka Serenity Hospital, Gosport – November 2015 (revisit 5)
Briefly, this huge Naval Hospital was built on the south coast of England in 1753 and closed its doors in 2009 after more than 250 years of service…
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Urbex: The not so white morgue aka The Maids Morgue – October 2015 (revisit 3)
Another visit to the not so white morgue… I heard it was open again and had nothing more productive to do on my birthday so I popped up to have a couple of beers and grab a few more shots of this lovely porcelain slab!
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Urbex: Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool – October 2015
The now abandoned Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool was originally intended to be a workhouse the for insane. Despite being the original intent of the site when the land was purchased by the Board of Poor Law Guardians, plans changed and the Hospital first opened its doors in 1914 as a military hospital during the First World War…
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Urbex: Daresbury Hall aka Zombie Manor, Cheshire, England – October 2015
Daresbury Hall is an abandoned Grade II* listed, 17th Century, Georgian style country house which was built in 1759 for George Heron. After serving as a private residence for some time, in the Second World War, the building was used as a military hospital and then from 1955 functioned as a residential care home before being used as a huge cannabis farm and then eventually set on fire…
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Urbex: The Cavern of the Lost Souls aka The Car Graveyard Mine, Wales, United Kingdom (revisit)- September 2015
Another trip down into the darkest depths of a Welsh slate mine to visit the Cavern of the Lost Souls… This rather unique waterfall like formation of vehicles which cascade down into a deep pool of water from a small now partially blocked opening its truly spectacular to see with your own eyes…
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Urbex: The Crescent Cinema, Pontefract, West Yorkshire – September & October 2015
The Abandoned Cresent Cinema in Pontefract opened 2nd November 1926 and operated until it closed in 1993. Originally the Cinema had a 2 tiered layout with room to accommodate 1190 customers but this was later scaled back to a single level auditorium in 1971..
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Urbex: Château Gryffindor, France – September 2015
The Chateau itself was obviously the main draw and I think accounts for most of the photos below including the lovely spiral staircase which leads up to a small landing area with decoratively painted walls. There was a room with an examination bed and a few pieces of other medical equipment which were one of the few remaining reminders of the last function of the building as a care home for the elderly.
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Urbex: Château Verdure, France – September 2015
The abandoned Château Verdure! Finally, I got around to seeing this place!
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Urbex: Le Château de Lesches, France – September 2015
This lovely Château was empty and abandoned when I visited back in September 2005, when doing a little more research on the place for this article I found that new owners had purchased an occupied the Castle and will be working to renovate the place.
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Urbex: Car Graveyard, France – September 2015
Tucked away in the middle of some woodland was this abandoned car graveyard full of old vehicles rotting away. Even having been given the exact coordinates for this place I still managed to walk past it twice it was that well hidden and overgrown…
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Urbex: Château de la Musique, France – September 2015
The abandoned Château de la Musique, another gorgeous, empty castle in France! Clearly occupied by an artistic and musical person the house had 3 pianos and all sorts of recording equipment and old radios, sculptures and paintings and more closer to the heard lots of photography equipment, tins of old devloping chemicals and blank photography paper…
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