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This weekend saw Manchester hosting the 28dl meet, basically lots of random people coming to a pub, getting drunk, and spending the rest of the weekend looking at weird abandoned stuff, or, in our case going on rooftops,climbing scaff in plain view, running from security, and driving endless miles through the snow....  What a weekend!  

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With the premier of the second episode of Crack the Surface screening in London and the January exams finished, Millhouse Fishbrain and myself set off to London with a list of places to visit. As it turned out Barking Power Station was to be the only successful explore of the weekend, with the other attempts resulting in rather entertaining fails.   Barking Power Station refers to a

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Whilst the usual urbex shizzle is as popular in Germany as it is in any other country, I have not yet heard of anyone who does drains here. In the past I therefore assumed that there just weren't any worth wile ones around, backed up by my failure of finding anything good after hours of research. That was until a few months ago when Dr Drewboy kept finding new material on the interwebs.    

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  In the aftermath of WW2 most of Berlin’s houses and industry stood in ruins. The debris that had piled up on the roads had to be moved out of the city to make space for new buildings. The area the Teufelsberg is found today used to be level ground with a military building in its place. What started as a temporary dumpsite quickly became Berlin’s largest artificial hill. During a period of 22

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It's a good month ago that two mancunion cars headed to Bradford to have a look at the local urbex tourist spots. First on the list was Pandora drain, a very long, concrete drain, with its only features right at the start and end. As we decided to take all pics on the way back, but actually popped out a manhole near the end, there are none from the mahoosive shaft. After a good few hours of

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The rain had only just stopped as we left the car and made our way towards Blackpool Pleasure beach. The main gate looked inviting, but it was not the point of access for that night. A few minutes later, and thanks to the detailed park's children map downloaded to the phone, we reached the first rollercoaster. Some of the rides were still plugged in, spreading noises through the dark grounds. 

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The Bucyrus Erie Drag Line, aka the Odd Ball, is a 1200 tonne dragline excavator which was built in 1948 in america. After four years of operation it was moved to the UK where it got relocated another four times, until it was finally decomissioned in 1983 at the St. Aidans Open Cast Mine. The machine, built by Bucyrus Erie, was called Odd Ball as it was a US built Electric powered machine and

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Next on the list was St. Mary's Church, which was built in 1852, devoted to the suffering experienced by those affected by the Irish potato famine. One of the roofs has collapsed and has been temporarily fixed with some scaffolding. The inside has been taken over by security pigeons.   After the reformation it was not until the early part of the nineteenth century that there became a

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  Met up with NickUk and fishbrain last weekend to have a look at some places in Leeds. First up was St. Michaels college. It got closed some point around 2005 and was open for more than 100 years.  Located next to a police station we had to wait for one of their cars to drive off before we could jump the fence.      A walk around the building revealed a number of tents and other temporary

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Sunday, 6am at the bus stop in Piccadilly Gardens. Stood between people on their way to work and others still drunk from the night before, Gone and myself are waiting for the bus to Nick's. First on the list was Ushaw college, a Roman Catholic seminary built in the 1800's, which is partly abandoned, with the still active buildings to be closed soon. Access took us some minutes, but was fun never

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© Gone  After two very sunny and warm weeks, the rain had come back to England. It was cold, windy, and just very very wet, just one of these days you retreat to your sofa and drink some warm tea. For some to me non apparent reasons though Millhouse had decided that it would be the perfect day to go toa) the Peak district in the middle of the night, tob) abseil into the errwood reservoir's

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 After the struggles of High Royds we went to Leeds for some rooftops. First on the list was Opal 3, a large student hall tower. It was fresher week, so we headed into the building as everyone else was on their way to getting pissed. After 20 minutes or so, security interrupted the silence by shouting at us through the roof vent. Whilst I'm not a big fan of Health and Safety, it prevented him

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This is the small remain of High Royds Mental Asylum. The vast majority of the buildings have either been converted into flats, or been demolished. All that is still left are some lonely arches that once belonged to long walkways and the admin block. Having never been to an asylum, I wasn't sure what to expect. Places like West Park have split most people into lovers or haters of asylums.  We

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The Glashütte Gerresheim was once one of the largest glas works in the world, employing more than 8000 workers and was in business for 141 years. Founded in 1846, the factory mainly produced bottles and jars and had large customers such as Coca Cola. In 2004, the american company Owens Illinois bought the factory and closed it only 8 months later. Most buildings have now been demolished to make

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Just a few snaps from Zeche Zollverein, which is on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. Parts of it are now a museum, and in the winter it hosts the longest ice skating ring in the area (thats when I was last there about 10 years ago, maybe there are bigger ones today). Germany's President (not chancellor though) was visiting this place whilst I was there, so no serious trespassing

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After a 5 hour drive from Manchester to England's South we arrived in Fleet. A few breaks on the way there, the usual traffic and the averaging speeding cameras along the motorway meant that it was already 4am by the time we got there. Some early breakfast in the form of Asda Donuts and Red Bull was taken in, the rucksacks were filled with the left overs and we were ready to set off into the

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Walking along the conveyor belts, it seemed like the plant was only shut down for the weekend. Control lamps were still flashing, monitors were switched on, there was no graffiti nor any sign of copper thieves and the time tracker next to the door was still welcoming the absent workers. When posting a report on any of the UK forums, it is common procedure to name the location by its full

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Four months have passed since NickUk and myself set off to Warrington to pay this huge drain system a long awaited visit. After some difficulties of locating it, and my first access through a manhole, we were faced with the choice of either walking to our right upstream, or the left downstream. I had seen many pictures posted online by other people, so I knew exactly what features were

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This was a quick visit with NickUK and myself. In retrorespect it really isn't worth the effort. Big Humpty, as seen below, is more of an undercrossing than a drain, with a length of maybe 50m. Its shape and size, the origin of its name, is a pleasant feature though. It is located upstream from the Medlock culvert, inbetween which it flows through the graveyard in a concrete channel.   The

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With no clear plans for the night, the five of us met once again at Gone's place and headed towards salford. Nick had seen a crane a while ago, and so we decided to have a look at it.  As the crane was completely illuminated and a security cabin was just opposite it, we opted for the roof of the concrete shell instead and discussed the further plans whilst enjoying a non-existent view. By now

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Nearly 5 months now since the last post. Will hopefully get around to posting some old stuff in the near future. Apologies to anyone analysing the noise patterns on oxford road, we might have added some inaccuracies to your data whilst up there. Rave underneath a motorway bridge© Gone: Drain Beach Party

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Drains often accumulate a range of random objects over time which you wouldn't expect to find down there. Over the small span of time I've been draining I got to see computer screens, printers, shopping trolleys, bikes, dolls ... this list could go on forever. Medlock culvert is host to one of the creepier finds; a gravestone. The gravestone was discovered by Gone and Rookie about half a year

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This church was the last one on the list for the day and was the perfect location for a break with some lunch. The obvious entrances were all boarded up. We tried the various doors but they were locked as well. However, after a little bit of climbing and avoiding holes in the floor (most of us were successful, but there is always one...) we were inside and finally had a roof above our heads.

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This is the weirdest underground place I have ever been to, mainly as it hasn't always been underground.   Firth Brown was one of the steelwork giants in Sheffield, with the medical centre there to look after any injured workers from the factories.  There is no information on when it closed down, but the picture to the right suggests it was still open in 1956.  What makes this place

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It's a few weeks ago now that I got a call of Gone asking whether I wanted to come to Sheffield with him to pick up a bike won on ebay and also have a look at a few places. So the next Saturday, Gone, NickUK, Matt and me were sitting on the train. The weather could probably not have been any worse but this was not to stop us from having a good day. The bike was picked up and an hour later we

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Its a Sunday afternoon in the Peak District. Gone, NickUK and myself are lying low in the darkness. The torches have been switched off. The tripods weighed down. The exposures and apertures are set. Most people who made their way into the peaks on this Sunday are either walking in the hills or escaping the rain in a warm pub. But not us. The wind is slowly picking up. The two light beams are

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Zeche Hugo was a coal mine in Gelsenkirchen in western Germany. The "Gewerkschaft des Steinkohlenbergwerks Hugo" was founded in 1873 and named after the man behind it, Hugo Honigmann. In 1875 the construction of the first shaft was finished and mining could start. By the end of 1909 there were 5 shafts in use.In the last years around 5000 people were employed, mining around 3.5 million tonnes of

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Stubbs Mill is located in the Ancoats area of Manchester next to Ashton Canal and the Ancoats Hospital. The area is full of mills, probably due to the canal flowing through it. Stubbs mill was initially used for making and assembling equipment for the cotton industry in Manchester. Later a variety of smaller companies where housed in the building. It was abandoned in the 90s and has been left

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What will you do with your left over fireworks after new years this year? Will you keep them in your basement? I wouldn't advise you to do so, as they could blow up and burn down your house. So what else is there, maybe throw them in the bin? Would defo be a waste, and just imagine they would go off in there! A good alternative is to walk to your local drain and set them off there. There are

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Went to this place when the sun was still warm at some point during the summer, but for some reason i have never posted it on here. Its completely trashed, but the colours inside make it worth the visit. Markets played an important role in mancherter's history. In its best time most of the now called northern quarter used to be part of the big market. Although most stands were outside,

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I had known that this was the largest drain in manchester, but actually standing inside it really shows you how high it is. Optimus Prime was built at around 1900 to allow the river Irk to pass underneath Victoria Station. There are a few nice features such as a cattle bidge, a coal and morgue chute and also a few overflow pipes with rather nice designs. Access to this was amusing as the water

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I scaled this building with Nckt a while ago. It had been on my to do list for a while, but until the scaffolding was recently put up any attempt had been unsuccesful. Sadly we didn't get to the ground floor or the vault and the rest of the building is completely stripped down, so there are only some rooftop pics. The building was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and built from Portland stone

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By some referred to as the holy grail of Manchester, the cathedral steps are a set of arches underneath the Manchester city centre next to the river Irwell. The rather difficult access (including the battle with local pigeons) means that they are still in a very good condition. I first visited this place a number of months ago together with Appo, you can see the pictures from that visit here.

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This was one of these night were you just walk around, or in this case actually cycle around, and just try whatever looks like it could result in a nice view.  We met at Gones place and quickly arrived at riverside building, a concrete shell. Until about a year ago a crane stood in the center, but it had to be taken down due to some safety reasons i think. On my last visit to this place a

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The Landschaftspark Duisburg is a 200 hector large abandoned iron work, which has now been converted into a massive museum.The Iron work was built in 1901 by the "Rheinische Stahlwerke" and was later taken over by Thyssen. In total 5 different blast furnaces had been in use, having produced a total of 37 million tonnes of iron in 84 years.  Two blast furnaces were knocked down in the 1960s,

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This is not a post of a high rooftop, I was probably only 2 meters above ground. Neither is it an abandoned place considering there were most likely around 75,957 people in the stadium. United was playing against Wolverhampton this weekend and I had always wanted to give football photography ago. Yet I would never have thought it could be that hard. After the first half i realised that using

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This is on top of the highest of Green Quarters residential towers. In my opinion they offer the best view of Manchester, closely followed by the all so famous Premier Inn. Many nights have been spent on top of various of these towers. Nowadays only few of them are still doable, with most being locked again.

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It has been a long time since the last post. Turns out that uni does sometimes actually mean that you to have do some work. I guess thats just life, eh? So today I present to you Supercharger B, which is downstream of Supercharger A. Its a fairly long culvert of the Gore Brook. The big arched outfall gives space to a huge bricked section. From there it changes into a round bricked pipe running

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So finally I managed to organise a small explore in Germany with some fellow Germans, namely Paddy and Rubidium. I met Paddy at the Landschaftspark Duisburg, a huge area of abandoned factories which are actually open to the public. Photos of this might follow in the future, but the number of people walking around it made the place less exciting, particularly compared to what was to follow.By now

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So finally I'm back in Manchester again. I arrived late in the afternoon, stashed the stuff at my place and  quickly went out to meet nckt and Jim Gillette. At first sight not much had changed in the city. The same cranes were still standing and the same rooftops were still in view. We were gonna start off with some easy rooftops, but i quickly realised that Manchester had changed during my time

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Goethe once said: 'You only see what you know.' Back home there is a road. I have cycled, driven and walked down it. And that numerous times a week for a number of years. I also saw that factory on the right hand side most of the times I went past it. Yet I never really noticed it, because I didn't know anything about it. If you had asked me who used to run it, or when work had stopped; my face

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 No HDR, but edited RAW file  HDR, high dynamic range images, have always fascinated me. Many people don't like them, including me in the beginning. This is because most examples you will see on forums or peoples websites are, in my opinion, just to unrealistic. They look more like a painting than a photo, and don't, in any way, represent what the original scenery which was photographed,

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The Schee Tunnel is a 721 meter long train tunnel in the north of wuppertal, germany. The first of the two tunnels was build in 1884 as part of the singletrack coaltrain from barmen to hattingen. In 1902, a second tunnel was build just next to it due to increasing use of the train tracks. Tracks however were never laid in the extension. Both tunnels are about 5 meter high and wide and slightly

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History:from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guernsey/content/articles/2004/07/20/german_military_underground_hospital_about_feature.shtml The german underground hospital and ammunition store is the largest remaining structure from the Occupation in the Channel Islands. Almost invisible from the surface the tunnel complex covers 7000 square metres. taken from bbc Construction started in the

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"This sculpture is classed as a building. You wouldn't climb an office building just to take some pictures from the rooftop, would you? So why would you climb the angel of the north" The inspector looked at us with a serious face. It was hard not to laugh! Why? I think the answer is obvious... The 410 mile trip started in Manchester at around midnight. I had wanted to do this climb so badly

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Revision time! this is the only reason why i havent been out for the past few weeks and also had to cancell the trip to milan. credits for this picture go to Jim Gillette Today i met up with Jim Gillette for a quick slackline session before i would do some more work. however it was quickly decided that draining would be a better alternative to revision, and an hour later we found ourselves

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A few weeks ago, on the way back from castle mill, oldham, we stopped by at this structure after wondering what it was from the bus. Metro link is in the process of building a new line between manchester and oldham. The station above is one of the new stops build especially for this line, situated in a newly created business park. When i first saw it that day, it was clear to me what had to be

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Mayfield is an abandoned trainstation just next to the still in use piccadilly station. It was built in 1910 to cope with the increasing train traffic. It was hit by a parachute mine in the second world war and restored afterwards to be used as a temporary station whilst piccadilly (back then still london road station) was renovated and prepare it for electric trains. In 1970 Royal

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Monday. Just come back from an awesome weekend, without any rooftops, so it was quickly decided what to do that night. I met up with nckt, Jim Gillette, Dan Helsing and babystrangeways ontop of Ramada hotel. I had never actually been up it, after hearing a lot of stories of arrests and myself being stopped once as well. Nckt roopftopping your hotels I must say its an amazing view up there,

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I joined Jim Gillette, Yaz and nckt for some draining which, after having a look at foxdenton, ended up in us eating some crispy tesco duck infront of nckt's tv only took a few pictures down here, mainly because there wasnt very much to see (the few bits that were there are awesome though) and also because i was experimenting with a new torch The first part of the drain was fairly dry due to

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Just catching up with a few rooftops now. First one is the V apartments in castle field, manchester. It was a long night out and it was decided that a new rooftop in a new area had to be attempted. We were lucky and got up on the first one we tried. Its got quite a nice view over the whole of manchester City inn is in the middle of manchester, just opposite piccadilly train station. The

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Here some random shots from the past weeks, starting with the BBQ in the gripper drain On Green Quarters Appo learning to abseil at river street building

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Met up with Dan Helsing, Gone and Jimmy Halfway and went to Oldham. Besides this mill we also found a wrecked house that was falling apart and a disued but new metro station.

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The Set

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So far the most amazing place i have been to. Visited with Appo revisited in november 2011: click here The Victoria Arches were a series of arches built in the embankment of the River Irwell in Manchester. They served as business premises, landing stages for Steam packet riverboats, and also as World War II air-raid shelters. They were accessed from wooden staircases which descended from

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A few of the drains explored so far Set

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The highest crane in Manchester at that time. I had looked at it so many times but security was always present. Then i was told by Nckt that it was gonna go down soon so R Fizzle and me headed up. It was taken down the next day!   The whole set

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When I first started looking at report of explores, palace hotel was one of the places that i definetely wanted to get done. First time with R Fizzle we actually found the entrance but i didnt think it was it. On our second attempt, this time also with ojay we finally got in. more pics here

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Been up there a few times before but finally took the camera with me this time. more pics from this place

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My second exploring trip with R Fizzle. We had a few cranes planned, but in the end only managed this one after getting caught on our way down.

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This was my first proper explore (Premier Inn doesnt count) and actually quite scary. Whilst walking around the site another guy was doing the same and only later I found out that it was Urban Soldier who wanted to get in it as well.

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