The Old Filter House, Lancaster - February 2014

Tin Dog, is a person of words and he sent me a cracker for this rather overly damp Sunday -

Baggerspion : The urge to peer into boarded up construction sites. 

Literally - Digger Truck Spy Hole.

A German word with no English equivalent.

- Urban Spaceman wanted to do some Baggerspion.

Urban Spaceman as a traveling salesman of strangely oversized pink shower curtain hooks, spotted a little place just outside Lancaster, near a place from my past - Galgate. "Take a look at this, looks like a place for us !!" our intrepid explorer bragged and well he sent us this link, from the local rag. 

He wanted to Baggerspion and trusting the salesman of strangely oversized pink shower curtain hooks was the order of the day. Tin Dog simply shook his head, yet agreed.

We managed to drag him past Forton Services, he has sexual advances on this place, he dribbles at the sight of the place - very sad, but he also has a fetish for Accrington bricks.

Meanwhile at Galgate, our explore awaited....

 



It wasn't looking good, at all.





In fact this place had no redeeming features what so ever, so as the rain began to fall even more heavily shelter was taken in the bus stop - the local homeless had been sheltering also and we scuffled for space as a number of buses appeared thru the gloom in groups of three.

 

Alas a shit little, well not even an explore.

A jovial journey home, until Forton Services came into view - but that is another story for another day.....

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.



- 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.



Looking around, not much to see

 

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







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.....



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



It was time to leave....

Lancaster from the air - December 2012

A very quick detour over the City of Lancaster, Lancashire, England, taken whilst on route to the Lake District.





First off we have Williamson Park, with its impressive Ashton Memorial, in the distance is the modern Lancaster Prison.





Lancaster Castle, the original Lancaster Prison





The Lune Millennium Bridge



and finally the Lune Aqueduct, built in 1797, it carries the Lancaster Canal over the River Lune.