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Tuesday 18 February 2014

Return to Miley Tunnel, Preston - February 2014

After our aborted visit to Preston's Miley Tunnels back in December this one has been eating away at me, don't know why as its only a tunnel.

So Urban Spaceman and myself grabbed our gear for a trip into the Preston underworld.

A nice and easy in, with a bit of a puddle at the entrance - oh must mention the rats scuttling around in the undergrowth, Urban Spaceman swears he didn't see any but I saw a couple of the hairy beasts pottering around.

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Not very much to say really, a long dark tunnel (very dark) running across the centre of Preston - a hole in the ground is simply a hole in ground.

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So we walked to the end and then back, stopping off for a bit of fun midway.

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 Miley Tunnels, Preston

We came back out into the light with the people of Preston looking at us strangely as if they wander past the entrances and railway cuttings without ever considering whats is actually down there in this big hole in the ground.

 Miley Tunnels, Preston

Well good people of Preston I will spill the beans on the big mystery with three R's - rats, rubbish and an old railway track and its bloody wonderful for some strange reason.

Tuesday 11 February 2014

Derbyshire Royal Infirmary - February 2014

As I type this about 40 other explorers/photographers are wading thru their own photographs of the very same day - it was busy, but the place is that big it didn't matter.

Visited with the Judderman, who took his seat at the driving wheel for our early start down to Derby, a most pleasant journey I should add for which I can't thank him enough.

The hospital having closed in sections over the years has a small section that remains open, sealed off from the main area of the site.

 Derby Royal Infirmary

 Derby Royal Infirmary

First off this place is simply huge, aside from the main hospital it has accommodation blocks, offices, a swimming pool, nursery, lecture theatres - I could go on.

The main hospital is old, older and not so old, it has maze like qualities with many floors. Sadly with door after door of NHS sameness it is kind of easy to lose yourself in the long corridors of derp.

So on with the pictures.
 Derby Royal Infirmary
 Derby Royal Infirmary
If you do like corridors of derp, this is indeed the place for you to worship your corridor fetish
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and more and more and more - take a picnic, its going to be a long day.
Derby Royal Infirmary
 Derby Royal Infirmary

I could go on, but here is a few to round off the post.
 Derby Royal Infirmary

Derby Royal Infirmary

Derby Royal Infirmary

Derby Royal Infirmary

Thanks for looking, plenty more on my Flickr.

Derby Royal Infirmary






Sunday 2 February 2014

The Elephant in the Room - Lancaster, Feb 2014

On what should have a trip to Preston we carried on up the motorway, to have a gander at something that just didn't happen.

Visited with Urban Spaceman with Tin Dog at the wheel.

So with a distant memory of a chat with a professional photographer I'd had pointing me to a rough and vague location - possibly two years ago, we stumbled around to this place.

Thru the rubble, mud, quicksand and lake like puddles without a bottom we made it to this unremarkable place and popped in thru a  rather welcoming hole in the wall of this concrete bunker of a building.

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- a tad dark, I had like a fool left the tripod in the car - again!!!

A slight drop to the floor, no more than a foot, onto a floor of marbles (not marble) but the round marbles that would indeed create a wacky Scooby Doo moment for all concerned.

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Looking around, not much to see

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Other than marbles, more marbles, sacks of marbles and more marbles

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Oh, and Vodka bottles - now with my very limited knowledge of Lancaster I can tell you Lancaster is not known for its production of Vodka.....

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And then in the darkness, dust and bloody marbles Tin Dog spotted an elephant in the room

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It was time to leave....

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