Aerial tilt-shift photography - Part 2

Hi folks, more of the same - these seem to be popular and so lets indulge.


The last lot featured in B3ta's newsletter, so someone must like them....

>> Tilt-shift photography (from a plane) <<
  Urbex enthusiast Fragglehunter likes to take
  pictures of unusual buildings while flying over
  them in a light aircraft. Here's some
  tilt-shift stuff. We like to think al-Qaeda's
  scouting reports are just as charmingly
  composed, although theirs are marred by an
  over-enthusiasm for Instamatic filters.

First off over to Preston, for the Tickled Trout (font change????)

Preston North End Football Club, errr Preston

Preston again, this where the Post Office loose all your mail.

Blackpool Tower

Barton Aerodrome or as it is now known Manchester City Airport 

Over to the Lake District, Cumbria and its Bowness on Windermere

 

 




Shooting back over to my home town of Bolton and just round the corner in the village of Ramsbottom
(no smirks please).

 
 And I couldn't leave this one out from Wigan




More to follow.....

- Sorry about the format, this blog stuff is playing up today

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!"

St Joseph's Seminary, Wigan

Visited with Urban Spaceman August 2011.

I wasn't going going to post this one, as it was a fail, until on forum I spotted a daft comment along the lines of "2 hours drive and I couldnt even get in the grounds" which to be honest is just rubbish (see scrote).

Built in 1880 is Grade II listed property was a seminary serving the North West of England, the site closed in the late 1990s.

The grounds are large and also include a church, small golf course, small grave yard, pond and gardens - which are all maintained by full time gardners.

The site has hi-tech security in the form of numerous security cameras monitored off site which when they spot you phone thru to a guard in a hut at the front door of the main building. In winter the guard sits inside the main building.

The only way into the building is to breakin or find where someone has broken in very,very,very recently - not my scene to be honest and cameras have recently been upgraded inside due to a spate of recent breakins. I don't do criminal damage as I have a family to support and a good job.

- oh they do know about sleepovers as strangley the owners and security do have the internet.

The church on the grounds was filmed for the funeral of Molly Dobbs in Coronation Street with the Kevin and Tyrone fight scene, amongst other tv and film productions.

Other points of interest is that the site is also used for police and police dog training and the odd police BBQ.

So how to I know this, well the guard told us !! We simply walked into the grounds and the cameras picked us up and the guard was phoned to greet us (with a golf club in hand).

Urbex tip - always have a packet of cigerettes on you, most security guards smoke and I find its an ice breaker to defuse your meeting (I'm sure this will not generally apply if your committing criminal damage or hanging out of a window).

Bottom line is dog walkers and photographers welcome to walk the grounds - no hoodies allowed, if you look like a scrote (*) your out.

So as I say big fail but we got to mooch the grounds, a bit of history, a ghost story and a cheery wave goodbye.

 



 



 



 


 



 



 



 



 



 


 



 



 


(*)  Scrote - A worthless obnoxious person; a gobshite or toerag; Abbreviation for scrotum.