Hulme Hippodrome, Manchester - September 2017

I had wanted to visit Hulme Hipperdrome for a good few years and it would seem this is now the latest tourist bus explore for the Autumn.

Visited with Tbolt and Porky Pig, warmly welcomed by a small group of squatters currently living in this semi derelict theatre.

The friendly group have taken occupation of the building in the last few months and taken it upon themselves to tidy the place up.

The unimpressive, from the outside, building opened in 1901 and was originally known as the Grand Junction Theatre and Floral Hall.

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.

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.


Don't let the bright colours in the photos fool you, this place is sadly in a very poor state of repair.

Excellent, 10/10 - ask for Syd and take an offering.

HM Prison Shrewsbury

A nice distraction came along Sunday morning in the form of Tbolt and a drive to Shrewsbury.

The present prison was built in 1877, this Grade II listed Victorian prisons closed in March 2013, the building is currently open for access by the public pending building development work in 2017.

The prison has recently been used as a filming location for the television series The Lucky Man and the second series of Prey.

I rather liked this place, given we where simply allowed to wander around the place at our leisure.

8/10
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Saville Mill, Bolton - August 2016

Blimey, 10 days of bloody hot foreign sun and I was bored senseless. Thankfully the return home found Bolton to be both rather cooler and a tad damp which was just to my liking with an easy local mooch shouting to be done.

A school night, myself and Tbolt jumped in the car following an earlier weekend visit by Judderman.

Having walked passed this old derelict mill pretty much every day for the last 14 years it was now at last open to visits without any form of gymnastics, so in we popped as you do.

In the 1970's this area was an industrial area, home to the local bus depot and the various traveling fairgrounds. By the 1990's the area was known only as the local red light district. Come 2016 the area is pretty much derelict or demolished with the red light area heavily under CCTV to stamp out any such activities.

But watch your back, your car etc, etc......

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Simply box ticking, sadly 2/10

Schools Out, Forever - June 2016

Having popped by this old village school back in April  Zer081, Tbolt and myself took another sneaky look at this old village school again as we passed the area.

The building had gone down hill very quickly with signs of vandalism and a failed attempt of arson.

I still rather like this place.


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