tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33345307504579365402024-02-20T10:13:40.923-08:00Fragglehunter Urbex - UK Urbex & Aerial Photography"Do not go drinking with this man. You will end up somewhere you where not planning to go..."
raspshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10893097406351474392noreply@blogger.comBlogger384125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334530750457936540.post-86376780771137081012021-03-25T07:17:00.003-07:002021-03-25T07:17:25.048-07:00Back and about time<p> We times flies when your having fun, I think we may have to update this blog with videos, photos and stuff. </p><p>Oh some wild times have been had, pottering around Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia and even a private tour of Chernobyl for a week - yeah been before, but this was a trip not to be missed. </p><p>So, time to get my arse in gear and post some updates. </p><p>March 2021. </p>raspshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10893097406351474392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334530750457936540.post-43406589548731888732018-05-18T07:31:00.001-07:002018-05-18T07:31:42.024-07:00Element Labs - Sheffield, April 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Visited with Tbolt and Snapt on one of our many trips to Sheffield.<br />
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Sadly it would seem that Sheffield's long held official title of City of Derp is rapidly coming to an end and finds of any quality are ever increasingly thin upon the ground.<br />
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Sadly this one was a tad meh.<br />
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A little derpy engineering workshop. Small, easy and not a bad little mooch for what it is.<br />
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Visited with Tbolt and Snapt.<br />
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My ongoing obsessive behavior of photographing art by the street artist Phlegm was fed once more.<br />
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The very illusive boxes hidden in the woods, somewhere in Sheffield.<br />
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Tucked away in for years and forgotten about, this what remains of an old primary school building.<br />
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Nothing great and wonderful, just lost in time in its own little world of brambles and birds.<br />
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Not sure what Snapt had in mind when he told us to visit this place.<br />
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Still not sure why Snapt sent us, just an odd building with cock holes in various doors, walls and cupboards. Also the occasional scribbled mobile number "ring me for a good suck"or words to that effect.<br />
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After a short break in explores I joined Tbolt and Snapt for chips and curry up in Matlock Bath followed by a quick mooch into the Haddon Tunnel in the failing light of the late afternoon Autumn murk.<br />
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Haddon Tunnel opened in 1863 and closed as part of the Beeching Report. Built to hide the railway from the sight of the Duke of Rutland as it passed his home, Haddon Hall. The now closed tunnel runs a total length of 967 metres.<br />
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This place was one of my very first explores back in 2012. Interesting to go back and reflect on the change in both the building and my photography - here is the <a href="http://www.12monkeys.co.uk/2012/04/games-factory-lancashire.html" target="_blank">first report.</a><br />
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On this latest trip I visited with Tbolt.<br />
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Not much history, closed donkeys years ago, used to make traffic cones, the company still trades from another location.<br />
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Visited with Porky Pig and Tbolt prior to demolition.<br />
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Very little history about the place, but it seems to have closed for business around 2007.<br />
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Visited with Tbolt and Porky Pig, warmly welcomed by a small group of squatters currently living in this semi derelict theatre.<br />
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The friendly group have taken occupation of the building in the last few months and taken it upon themselves to tidy the place up.<br />
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The unimpressive, from the outside, building opened in 1901 and was originally known as the Grand Junction Theatre and Floral Hall.<br />
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The building was last used as a theatre in the 1960s, converted to the usual bingo hall in the 1970s during the bingo fever that swept across the UK, closing in 1986.<br />
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The theatre was then bought by the church group Deya Ministers, run by one Gilbert Deya an evangelist minister from Kenya whom was later deported to Kenya in a miracle bady scam which involved child abduction and trafficking. This man also preached that AIDS and HIV was a spirit or a pestilence that comes upon people who are cursed, the conditions could not be treated by medicine because it was a spirit. Gilbert Deya also preached however that the cure of AIDS was by rejecting it in the name of Jesus.<br />
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My first explore of the day with Darmon Richter, we had a wander round with the cameras and had a cheeky beer whilst hiding from the harsh afternoon sun.<br />
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History is somewhat lacking for this abandoned sports venue, apparently built to be a showcase to the world as to what Bulgaria could offer as a possible Olympic venue.<br />
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Built on the Black Sea coast, the building is unfinished and abandoned for an Olympics that never happened.<br />
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Please forgive me for repetition of similar photos, I just found the place very photogenic and one of them very special chill out type of locations so very sorry the over indulgence - the cold beer and company did also add that extra to the visit.<br />
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For me this is one of those special places without any Indiana Jones type shit, simply sat hiding in plain view on main city road hidden from the world by the undergrowth around it.<br />
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Earlier in the year I managed to persuade Mrs Hunter to book the family holiday in Bulgaria. Why persuade you might ask ? Well you see a rather splendid chap whom I infrequently meet up with is based in that part of the world and if you travel all that way it would be very rude not to pop round and well, meet up and see some stuff.<br />
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I sat in a local cafe waiting for <a href="http://www.thebohemianblog.com/" target="_blank">Darmon Richtor</a>, and him not being a morning person he was late, sorry hang on he wasn't - I was early, having had only 3 hours sleep I sat hiding from the midday sun drinking coffees with fresh lemonade chasers. I hadn't seen him since our <a href="http://www.12monkeys.co.uk/2015/10/skrunda-1-latvia-october-2015.html" target="_blank">Latvia and Lithuania road trip</a> and well I knew he had something rather good to show me and I will be very honest, I was a little excited.<br />
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This place was in our second explore of the day.<br />
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The Monument to the Bulgarian Soviet Friendship or as it is sometimes called The Russian Monument is a rather grand monument perched 110 metres up on top of a hill above the city of Varna overlooking the Black Sea. A rather deceptive monument which is in fact building with a big secret (more on that later).<br />
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Built over a four year period from 1974 the monument acts as a memorial for Russia's support of the Bulgarian people during the 1828-29 Russo-Turkish War. The political changes of 1989 saw the monument fall into disrepair and without going into any politics, the monument splits opinions.<br />
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Hang on, 301 steps and although I didn't count them it was a killer in the early mid afternoon sun, oh you will have to trust me on this, it was hot - very hot.<br />
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This shot does not really give a sense of the size of the monument, but it stands 23 metres in height with a width of 48 metres.<br />
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So now having reached the summit it was time to go in and unfortunately the entrance sadly had been recently sealed preventing our access.<br />
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Fortunately my guide knew of the "servants" entrance and with a bit of a wiggle and limbo in we went to darkened snaking maze of corridors taking us up thru and ultimately onto the top of the monument.<br />
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By this time I was hot and bothered, however it was nearly time for some of that cold beer that we had cunningly picked up from the shop before our ascent.<br />
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We then started to make our exit and for that promised beer, via the "Star Room".<br />
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Pausing to look in the darken depths to a sealed lower level.<br />
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Out back into the heat of the day we paused and chatted for a catch up since our last meeting drinking our hard earned beer and then Darmon teasingly let slip "there is more".<br />
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We carried on towards the base of the hill, I heard mention words of warning about snakes in the undergrowth - great !!!<br />
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Resembling a Dharma Initiative hatch way from an episode of Lost and all we needed now was the dreaded Smoke Monster as we entered some kind of military bunker.<br />
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Really, really vast and a sprawling maze.<br />
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After a good wander around Darmon directed me to a shaft which rose up thru the hillside into the monument above.<br />
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Under our feet lay uniformed guillotine cut stone and we stood a few feet below the surrounding floor level. The shaft seemed to continue below us and had been obviously filled in, but someone had been busy removing the stone by hand - perhaps the bunker complex continued below into further levels ?<br />
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Whilst down in my shed (or spider filled man cave as Mrs Hunter calls it) I had a very surprising message from the office of Melody Anne, a New York Times and USA Today best selling author, wanting to use one of my photos for the cover of her latest book.<br />
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The Wellington Rooms, Liverpool. Also known as The Irish Centre this Grade II Listed building sits rotting despite a £121,000 grant to fix the roof which to date has clearly not been done.<br />
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Built in 1815 the property has sat empty since 1997.<br />
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Having seen the building on a BBC4 documentary back in 2016 I had desperately wanted to take a glimpse of the the inside of the building. So myself, Blacksnake and Tbolt did when the word came around.<br />
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The simple fact is that in its heyday the Wellington Rooms would have been spectacular.<br />
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This one didn't really float my boat, but Snapt liked it a lot - as correctly predicted by Tbolt.<br />
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This base was once a storage facility for nuclear weapons.<br />
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Not a lot to see and mostly shit graf was the order of the day sadly, looks like we missed a bit, but I don't really expect a revisit any time soon.<br />
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We spotted this place on the side of a busy main road in Wales. After a frustrating day we popped our heads in.<br />
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Looked like an old school which had been later used by the Highways Department for offices. Not much to say about the place to be honest. It had potential from the road side but ultimately crap, thrashed to within an inch of its life.<br />
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Given that Wales is obviously a country of milk and honey we did find it a little strange that the lights where left on despite the building being "alfresco" and looking empty for years.<br />
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Visited with Tbolt and Snapt on our delightful return journey thru Wales.<br />
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Situated in the middle of a very remote part of Wales, off the beaten track and then further and further down another remote country lane is a little chapel next to a phone box. You may need the phone box, this is an American Werewolf kind of place and you won't be getting a signal on your phone if you need to phone for help (thinking vehicle breakdown rather than being ripped apart by a Lycanthrope to be honest).<br />
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This rather, very, small chapel is sometimes referred to as Sinister Chapel, not very sinister but location wise very quiet, remote and a little atmospheric on a wet and windy day.<br />
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Snapt, myself and Tbolt continued to trundle around the country roads of Wales.<br />
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We had quickly realised Wales was a lot like the Lake District but without the traffic and the Japanese tourists. Wales was good but the weather was shite - just like the Lake District.<br />
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We imagined that back in deepest Pembrokeshire a strange man was playing with his dogs and fingering overly large cups of tea whilst sniffing bottles of festering milk.<br />
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We had had a lucky escape and whilst the weather was truly awful we stumbled into a little gem of an abandoned Wesleyan Methodist chapel.<br />
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Built in 1833 and then rebuilt in 1868 the chapel closed in 1973.<br />
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No externals, the place is enveloped with overgrowth and it at risk of collapse at some point in the near future.<br />
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A gem of a little chapel, we rather liked this one a lot.</div>
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A Welsh road trip, so what could go wrong ??<br />
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Tbolt, myself and the one only known as Snapt set off in the, very, early hours of the morning and well it all went a bit League of Gentlemen.<br />
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It should be noted that the chain of bizarre events that unfolded before us fell firmly at the feet of a crazy English pensioner (did I say crazy ?) what I meant to say was deluded. Said fuckwitt currently resides in deepest Pembrokeshire luring unsuspecting explorers to his lair with false promises of urbex gold.<br />
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As my Mum once said to me "you want to be carefull on that internet, its full of fucking nutters".<br />
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So when in Wales with at least a 5 hour drive home, 7 hours for poor old Snapt, it becomes derp hunting time.<br />
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"Oh look its a coach graveyard in the middle of nowhere, apply the brakes on the car !! "<br />
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It started to rain, again, and so we quickly returned to the car a tad wet. Snapt started up the Mystery Machine for our onward journey and we drove on into the mist.<br />
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Visited with Tbolt and Snapt, whilst Mrs Tbolt went shopping and got the grub and pop in.<br />
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Tucked away on the edge of the town, this industrial gem sits in development hell and is a rather photogenic derp of a gem. Sadly a quick visit and my photos don't give the place justice.<br />
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Tbolt was rather disappointed, but I love places like this.<br />
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For me, a little gem of a place, 6/10<br />
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Shouts to Mrs Tbolt for an excellent choice of grub.</div>
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A busy Bank Holiday Weekend, a cheeky monkey entrance trying to avoid the tourists. What could go wrong ? Well nothing really, it was just a little bit poo.<br />
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Visited with Tbolt and Snapt.<br />
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Sat on the side of the river, under the cliffs of High Tor in Matlock Bath is this long closed pigment factory, cable cars sail overhead.<br />
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It was at this point we spotted the open cave entrance and we could not resist having a nosey and in we went. Shortly in we spotted some illicit mining and the roof seemed to be held up by some amateur Jenga puzzle. Tbolt turned to comment and the puzzle moved and a section of wood fell on the floor.<br />
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This may have been an elaborate ploy to keep people out, it worked.<br />
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Didn't really float my boat this place, 2/10</div>
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A first glance this, hidden, long standing derp zone zone is a little bit shit.<br />
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Visited with Tbolt and Snapt, Snapt assuring us that of wonderful art was to be found.<br />
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After a bit of a false start and a run in with a member of staff, nice chap, from a local garden emporium we found ourselves initially a little disappointed with the place. However this was not to last.....<br />
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This railway wagon repair factory traded as Chatsworth Wagon Repairs Limited and closed at some point in the 1980s.<br />
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First the disappointing bit, a heavily thrashed building.<br />
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Thankfully a casual wander further into the heavily overgrown site we came across the treasure that Snapt had brought us to see.<br />
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This place used to be a vast sprawling production centre for the smokeless fuel Coalite, a byproduct from the fuel known as Carbon Black was also processed for use as a pigment in the manufacture of vehicle tyres.<br />
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Opening in 1937, the 140 acre site finally closed in 2004, and has been sitting in development hell ever since.<br />
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In a case of grab what can photography that currently grips Sheffield during the city wide sanitization of buildings Tbolt and myself wandered into this little derp of a factory on the way to meet Snapt.<br />
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A small, rather quick and easy explore - 6/10<br />
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raspshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10893097406351474392noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334530750457936540.post-26511084967344723712017-03-14T15:05:00.002-07:002017-03-14T15:13:41.017-07:00Leake Street Tunnel, London - March 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We visited this place on a 15 hour wander thru the streets of London, meeting on Westminster Bridge at 8.30pm one Saturday evening we set off into the night.<br />
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We did rather liked this place, a graffiti free for all under Waterloo Station, London.<br />
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The graffiti changes by the day, constantly being refreshed day and night and a visit is highly recommended.<br />
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