Stuff I've spotted from the plane - Part 1

Back to aerial photography, not had some aerial pictures on the blog of late - I'm currently sat this Easter weekend with my fingers crossed for the Easter Monday weather to be good so I can go for a flight  (not a chance !).

The good thing about a blog is sometimes you can post a group of pictures that perhaps might never see the light of day, putting them on my blog as a small collection people get to see what I see, photographs of the unseen parts of Britain.

The new fashion of intergrating GPS into cameras would be of major use to me,  as given the speed of flight and the number of photos I take, many of the following I can't identify the locations, I don't have a clue.

One or two have been given a "tilt-shift" finish, so here we go, I will try and give a county or town where I can.

First off is a listen post type place hidden by trees, I took this one on the way to Raf Duxford, its located in the Lincolnshire area.


Cambridgeshire ???



This next one I do know, Scout Moor, Edenfield, Lancashire



Ramsbottom, Helmshore ? Its that kind of area.
 

Rivington Pike, Lancashire.

 

The Mormon Temple, Chorley, Lancashire.



Had to post this, as its a local landmark, the disused Darcy Lever viaduct in Bolton, people drive under it, Urbexers climb it, but I've never seen a picture of the old girl from the air.



Yorkshire, a little set from an industrial site we flew over on a trip to Northumberland.

 





Another quarry, it has a pool of water with worryingly strange colour.

 

 

 

But is it toxic ?

 

Final pic, I just don't have a clue, at a wild, wild guess South Yorkshire.



More to follow, but you might want to have a gander at a few location specific posts of mine such as

Whittingham Asylum - from the air

The Lake District - from the air

Northumberland - from the air

The Rainbow Factory, Derbyshire

Another from 2011, August, visited with the Urban Spaceman.

First off thanks to Judderman for pushing me in this direction, this site did not disappoint.

Park up and a few steps of a walk you find the wonder that is ********, this pigmentation factory closed in 2006, perhaps due to the poor marketing in the Derbyshire area ?

 


First off we have a row of cottages, doors open, some kicked in, but all windows put thru

 


 Amazingly post was still being delivered, with TV licence chasers and this weeks electorial role forms delivered via the open windows (the postman must love this place, given that its in the middle of nowhere).



















The site had been visited the usual rapscallions and scumbags, the houses had been stripped of all the metal, but the main mill was wide open, very well intact and a sight for sore eyes after some of the recent places we had visited on our travels.


 


 


 


 


 


Thru the round window, we have labs !

 


 


Its at this point I must warn any intrepid explorer that I have read this place is haunted, but they would say that - the fact is this place is a lonely silent place but the doors in the factory like to bang, the trees like to play tunes on the roof.

These doors we kept shutting only for them to swing open and bang loudly

 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


Now, casual reader, these wellies (wellington boots) signify the true meaning of Urbex. I will explain.

As an true urbexer you don't vandalise places, you don't thieve and in this case these wellies have been in this room for years. If you ever see photos of this factory you will always get the wellie shot, they move around the room alot but you always get the wellie shot.

 


 


 


 





Sadly the place has gone downhill and a few months later I got the following message

"Love your treatment of these photos! My friend and myself went a few days before Christmas and it's so sad how the site has deteriorated in those few short months. All the houses are boarded up and notices of prosecution are all around. Mind you, it was chucking it down with rain as well which didn't help!"

Wilkinsons of Elland - Blackley Brickworks

September 2011

You can see this place as you drive down the M62 motorway.

On my journey up to Halifax the weekend before I spotted this place as I pulled off the motorway, a brief meet with the Judderman the week before and I had this one on my list, after a mooch ont'tinernet I soon found this is an old favorite of many an explorer and is totally buggered.

The challenge was to make this one look bloody good and spark Urban Spaceman into stop messing about with his motorbike in his shed.

Blackley Fire Clay Works, Wilkinson's Brickworks, Blackley. The chimney at the works was built in 1894 and is a local landmark, the factory itself dates back to about 1883, the factory closed in 1985.

I set off a little concerned after reading a recent newspaper article stating the owners had been reviewing security at the site, it was obviously not on any kind of priority list, given the state of the place and the lack of security and on site parking.


So welcome to Yorkshire !!!

 


 


 


 


 


 


Some nice graffiti at this place

 


























Now this was a new one on me, a collection of paints on site for graffiti artists to use.







 


 


 


Bit of urbex paint porn !

 











Grumpy Octopus !














































 The obligatory spooky stairs picture








Anyway I'm sure you have had enough of this set of pics, if not head on over to my Flickr page for some more of the delights of Blackley Brickworks.

Moving forward to this year, 2012, a housing developer wants to flatten the site and build 120 houses.