a gap between 2 houses, was used for a film "Bullseye! " with roger moore / michael caine.. where it collapses in front of them, another fake place.. but google earth blocks it. is around the corner.
the famous WW2 dollis hill GPO is now a mass of private flats, I've been in it.. halls still keep the original features.. and around the corner is WW2 bunkers which I'd like to see... and of course "flowers close" (named after tommy)
We've got a lot of old forts, batteries, railway tunnels/stations and smugglers tunnels. I've explored quite a few of them.
I love exploring, always have done. When I was a kid we used to break in to the tunnels in puckpool park which is an old battery, apparently you could go all the way to one of the forts in the solent.
Once crawled about 3 miles down a storm drain as a kid.
A friend of mine found a tunnel in his basement, I jumped at the chance to explore it. Think I posted on here about it somewhere.
Tunnels are great. Not sure why they used to call me swampy.
We have a road down here that just caved in, not sure what happened there, maybe another tunnel :)
We've got a lot of old forts, batteries, railway tunnels/stations and smugglers tunnels. I've explored quite a few of them.
I love exploring, always have done. When I was a kid we used to break in to the tunnels in puckpool park which is an old battery, apparently you could go all the way to one of the forts in the solent.
Once crawled about 3 miles down a storm drain as a kid.
A friend of mine found a tunnel in his basement, I jumped at the chance to explore it. Think I posted on here about it somewhere.
Tunnels are great. Not sure why they used to call me swampy.
We have a road down here that just caved in, not sure what happened there, maybe another tunnel :)
dare ya to jump down the hole, go see ;)
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I'd love to go and see one of those huge underground nuclear shelter complexes the government built with our taxpayer money while leaving us (those who paid for it) unprotected to take the brunt of a nuclear attack. Also some of the now disused silos (LFs) and launch control facilities (LCFs) in the USA (some of the decommissioned ones have been turned into museums). Most of this is because of my unhealthy and morbid fascination with nuclear warfare.
I'm not sure if this link will work, but here's an album of a few pics I took a good few years ago of an old theme park (small theme park, but it did have 2 cable cars and a rollercoaster) near me. It's still an abandoned but the open air theatre has since been restored and opened (it's the largest in Europe with a capacity of around 6000. Shame really that all that seems to be booked is old X-Factor pop acts who no one is interested in! The Saturdays played last year to about 1300 people!)
I've explored loads of abandoned places over the years, and there's a video of one trip on Youtube! :)
This took place when I was about 19-ish, and I was re-visiting some places in Dalkeith, Midlothian I had been shown by a fellow student when I was at college. I went back with my brother, my mum (the camera operator) and my mate Kenneth.
The first bit of the video is in the grounds of Newbattle Abbey, where we enter a cave that was dug out by monks many years before! Inside there's a tunnel that leads away underground and allegedly ends coming out into a field a few miles away, but it was flooded both times I visited and looked a bit dangerous anyway, so we just look at the cave in the video.
You can't really see much in the footage, but there's a small room with a bit that seems to be have been used as a bed by some tramp or junkie or troll or something.....
The next bit is an old abandoned factory at the top of Dalkeith.. The guy who originally showed me it used to hang around with some teenagers that were into Satanism and when I first visited there was a large wooden wall covered in satanic scrawlings and weird symbols and drawings. In the video, you can see where we try to film it, but two things mean we don't see much...
First, the wall no longer exists as someone had set fire to it and burned it down..and second, my mum accidentally had the camera switched on, and when she thought she was starting to film what was left, she switched the camera off! :D Anyway, the site where all this satanic stuff was is now the site of the local Tesco! Make of that what you will...
One more thing of note in the video is when my mate Kenny goes in through the hole in the wall and knocks on the door, you can hear a noise like something collapsing. He thought at the time it was us trying to freak him out, but none of us did anything! Took him until he saw the footage again online to believe us, and I'm still not sure he totally does! :lol:
Anyway here's the video....see if you can understand the Scottish accents and try to ignore the annoying numpty with the curtains..that's me! ;)
I've explored loads of abandoned places over the years, and there's a video of one trip on Youtube! :)
This took place when I was about 19-ish, and I was re-visiting some places in Dalkeith, Midlothian I had been shown by a fellow student when I was at college. I went back with my brother, my mum (the camera operator) and my mate Kenneth.
The first bit of the video is in the grounds of Newbattle Abbey, where we enter a cave that was dug out by monks many years before! Inside there's a tunnel that leads away underground and allegedly ends coming out into a field a few miles away, but it was flooded both times I visited and looked a bit dangerous anyway, so we just look at the cave in the video.
You can't really see much in the footage, but there's a small room with a bit that seems to be have been used as a bed by some tramp or junkie or troll or something.....
The next bit is an old abandoned factory at the top of Dalkeith.. The guy who originally showed me it used to hang around with some teenagers that were into Satanism and when I first visited there was a large wooden wall covered in satanic scrawlings and weird symbols and drawings. In the video, you can see where we try to film it, but two things mean we don't see much...
First, the wall no longer exists as someone had set fire to it and burned it down..and second, my mum accidentally had the camera switched on, and when she thought she was starting to film what was left, she switched the camera off! :D Anyway, the site where all this satanic stuff was is now the site of the local Tesco! Make of that what you will...
One more thing of note in the video is when my mate Kenny goes in through the hole in the wall and knocks on the door, you can hear a noise like something collapsing. He thought at the time it was us trying to freak him out, but none of us did anything! Took him until he saw the footage again online to believe us, and I'm still not sure he totally does! :lol:
Anyway here's the video....see if you can understand the Scottish accents and try to ignore the annoying numpty with the curtains..that's me! ;)
I'd love to go and see one of those huge underground nuclear shelter complexes the government built with our taxpayer money while leaving us (those who paid for it) unprotected to take the brunt of a nuclear attack. Also some of the now disused silos (LFs) and launch control facilities (LCFs) in the USA (some of the decommissioned ones have been turned into museums). Most of this is because of my unhealthy and morbid fascination with nuclear warfare.
there is one that is used to store expensive wine in IRC, in London. There is the WW2 one in dollis hill under the flats, but thats just a bunker and not nuke proof..
I don't think it's really morbid, just one of them things you put either down to 2 things... either going out in a flash .. or being trapped underground in some uninhabital place.. I'd rather go in a flash if that were the 2 options
I don't think it's really morbid, just one of them things you put either down to 2 things... either going out in a flash .. or being trapped underground in some uninhabital place.. I'd rather go in a flash if that were the 2 options
It's not either/or those things, though. That's what makes it even more terrible. Most of the population would survive the initial attack with various injuries and would be condemned to die over a period of a few weeks from the fallout, or if they avoided that, condemned to die in the darkness of the nuclear winter that follows.
Nuclear winter is actually a bit of a misnomer. It's more like nuclear year-long night. In the aftermath of a cold war exchange between the USSR and NATO with only about quarter of the arsenal used, the soot injected into the stratosphere (which would linger for years) would make the mid-day light conditions about that of a moonlit night. Nothing will grow. Water will be hard to find (it all will freeze). Coastal areas will be warmer but due to the inland temperature differences, will be lashed with constant violent storms. When the light finally does return, due to ozone depletion, UV would be a constant danger.
Also it's insane that Britain still has and wants to keep nuclear weapons. They are a waste of money and extremely dangerous.
I'd rather go in a flash if that were the 2 options
As winston says, the other option is worse (watch threads if you fancy a good laugh*). I live nice and close to a V bomber base so wouldn't have had too much to worry about back in the day. :)
I've explored loads of abandoned places over the years, and there's a video of one trip on Youtube! :)
This took place when I was about 19-ish, and I was re-visiting some places in Dalkeith, Midlothian I had been shown by a fellow student when I was at college. I went back with my brother, my mum (the camera operator) and my mate Kenneth.
The first bit of the video is in the grounds of Newbattle Abbey, where we enter a cave that was dug out by monks many years before! Inside there's a tunnel that leads away underground and allegedly ends coming out into a field a few miles away, but it was flooded both times I visited and looked a bit dangerous anyway, so we just look at the cave in the video.
You can't really see much in the footage, but there's a small room with a bit that seems to be have been used as a bed by some tramp or junkie or troll or something.....
The next bit is an old abandoned factory at the top of Dalkeith.. The guy who originally showed me it used to hang around with some teenagers that were into Satanism and when I first visited there was a large wooden wall covered in satanic scrawlings and weird symbols and drawings. In the video, you can see where we try to film it, but two things mean we don't see much...
First, the wall no longer exists as someone had set fire to it and burned it down..and second, my mum accidentally had the camera switched on, and when she thought she was starting to film what was left, she switched the camera off! :D Anyway, the site where all this satanic stuff was is now the site of the local Tesco! Make of that what you will...
One more thing of note in the video is when my mate Kenny goes in through the hole in the wall and knocks on the door, you can hear a noise like something collapsing. He thought at the time it was us trying to freak him out, but none of us did anything! Took him until he saw the footage again online to believe us, and I'm still not sure he totally does! :lol:
Anyway here's the video....see if you can understand the Scottish accents and try to ignore the annoying numpty with the curtains..that's me! ;)
I bet your mum made up sandwiches and flasks of tea!:grin:
I'd love to go and see one of those huge underground nuclear shelter complexes the government built with our taxpayer money while leaving us (those who paid for it) unprotected to take the brunt of a nuclear attack. Also some of the now disused silos (LFs) and launch control facilities (LCFs) in the USA (some of the decommissioned ones have been turned into museums). Most of this is because of my unhealthy and morbid fascination with nuclear warfare.
There's also RAF Hack Green in Cheshire that has also been turned into a museum.
I'd love to go and see one of those huge underground nuclear shelter complexes the government built with our taxpayer money while leaving us (those who paid for it) unprotected to take the brunt of a nuclear attack. Also some of the now disused silos (LFs) and launch control facilities (LCFs) in the USA (some of the decommissioned ones have been turned into museums). Most of this is because of my unhealthy and morbid fascination with nuclear warfare.
I went to one in Anstruther Scotland, it was fascinating. Easy to find too.
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a cool site
there are plenty of places in London... but a lot have been built on..
there is a house on posh street... and it's just the front.. it hides the railway tunnel under it.
http://www.urban75.org/blog/the-fake-houses-at-23-and-24-leinster-gardens-bayswater-london-w2/
a gap between 2 houses, was used for a film "Bullseye! " with roger moore / michael caine.. where it collapses in front of them, another fake place.. but google earth blocks it. is around the corner.
the famous WW2 dollis hill GPO is now a mass of private flats, I've been in it.. halls still keep the original features.. and around the corner is WW2 bunkers which I'd like to see... and of course "flowers close" (named after tommy)
I've mentioned this on here before http://www.subbrit.org.uk/
I love exploring, always have done. When I was a kid we used to break in to the tunnels in puckpool park which is an old battery, apparently you could go all the way to one of the forts in the solent.
Once crawled about 3 miles down a storm drain as a kid.
A friend of mine found a tunnel in his basement, I jumped at the chance to explore it. Think I posted on here about it somewhere.
Tunnels are great. Not sure why they used to call me swampy.
We have a road down here that just caved in, not sure what happened there, maybe another tunnel :)
dare ya to jump down the hole, go see ;)
It's gonna lead to the Central Cavern!
Once you are captured you get thrown into a dungeon
DIG, SMASH TRAP DOOR
You do this until the door breaks.
SAY TO THORIN "OPEN WINDOW", SAY TO THORIN "PICK ME UP"
SAY TO THORIN "WEST", SW, WAIT
The old park was called "Mr Marvels"
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This took place when I was about 19-ish, and I was re-visiting some places in Dalkeith, Midlothian I had been shown by a fellow student when I was at college. I went back with my brother, my mum (the camera operator) and my mate Kenneth.
The first bit of the video is in the grounds of Newbattle Abbey, where we enter a cave that was dug out by monks many years before! Inside there's a tunnel that leads away underground and allegedly ends coming out into a field a few miles away, but it was flooded both times I visited and looked a bit dangerous anyway, so we just look at the cave in the video.
You can't really see much in the footage, but there's a small room with a bit that seems to be have been used as a bed by some tramp or junkie or troll or something.....
The next bit is an old abandoned factory at the top of Dalkeith.. The guy who originally showed me it used to hang around with some teenagers that were into Satanism and when I first visited there was a large wooden wall covered in satanic scrawlings and weird symbols and drawings. In the video, you can see where we try to film it, but two things mean we don't see much...
First, the wall no longer exists as someone had set fire to it and burned it down..and second, my mum accidentally had the camera switched on, and when she thought she was starting to film what was left, she switched the camera off! :D Anyway, the site where all this satanic stuff was is now the site of the local Tesco! Make of that what you will...
One more thing of note in the video is when my mate Kenny goes in through the hole in the wall and knocks on the door, you can hear a noise like something collapsing. He thought at the time it was us trying to freak him out, but none of us did anything! Took him until he saw the footage again online to believe us, and I'm still not sure he totally does! :lol:
Anyway here's the video....see if you can understand the Scottish accents and try to ignore the annoying numpty with the curtains..that's me! ;)
my dad is from dalkeith. :D
there is the one with the road sign post up "secret bunker" , thats in err brentwood http://www.secretnuclearbunker.com/
there is one that is used to store expensive wine in IRC, in London. There is the WW2 one in dollis hill under the flats, but thats just a bunker and not nuke proof..
I don't think it's really morbid, just one of them things you put either down to 2 things... either going out in a flash .. or being trapped underground in some uninhabital place.. I'd rather go in a flash if that were the 2 options
It's not either/or those things, though. That's what makes it even more terrible. Most of the population would survive the initial attack with various injuries and would be condemned to die over a period of a few weeks from the fallout, or if they avoided that, condemned to die in the darkness of the nuclear winter that follows.
Nuclear winter is actually a bit of a misnomer. It's more like nuclear year-long night. In the aftermath of a cold war exchange between the USSR and NATO with only about quarter of the arsenal used, the soot injected into the stratosphere (which would linger for years) would make the mid-day light conditions about that of a moonlit night. Nothing will grow. Water will be hard to find (it all will freeze). Coastal areas will be warmer but due to the inland temperature differences, will be lashed with constant violent storms. When the light finally does return, due to ozone depletion, UV would be a constant danger.
Also it's insane that Britain still has and wants to keep nuclear weapons. They are a waste of money and extremely dangerous.
As winston says, the other option is worse (watch threads if you fancy a good laugh*). I live nice and close to a V bomber base so wouldn't have had too much to worry about back in the day. :)
*Yes, I'm a nutter, what you gonna do?
I bet your mum made up sandwiches and flasks of tea!:grin:
Hehe...nah, but we did stop at a cafe for a cuppa and a slice of cake before we went up though! :lol:
I went to one in Anstruther Scotland, it was fascinating. Easy to find too.