Urban Adventure

Mixed emotions on this trip. Been excited all day about going in the big one - the River Sheaf. I packed the Peli case with the SLR and the new bright lights and headed off down the big one.
Wanted to experience the trip from start to finish - so I entered the the upstream entrance. [...]

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After thinking it over for several months, I finally bit the bullet and went looking for some underground rivers in Sheffield. I had intended to go to Megatron, but in the end I went and checked out another tunnel which I believe will ultimately link up with Megatron. I have a new bright light on [...]

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This cinema first opened in the 1930’s - back then it was known as the Regal. It later underwent a conversion and became the the ABC - and sported three screens.

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I spied this place  in October 2006, this was before I knew that Dweeb had already explored it. Its looks like a large black shed on the other side of Meadowhall. Since Dweebs visit in July 2006, this place has been locked down and nobody to me knowledge has been back.

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Snappel and I made our way to the roof of SUFC to do a rooftop explore in the day.
We thought we’d get a good look whilst everyone was preoccupied with the match, SUFC were playing away.  It was a great excuse to take someone else up here to enjoy the view.

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Once upon a time, we went exploring and found a 1940’s underground vault.
I mean there you are one minute wondering down an underground drainage passage, admiring the brickwork and the pondlife and the suddenly up above you there is a beckoning climb. Well - who wouldn’t want to see what was up there?
     

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The reason I’ve ‘come out’ with this site is because its being  destroyed. Sometimes you visit a place and its in such good nick that you don’t think its worth advertising or promoting, not because you don’t want other people to see it but because you don’t want it destroyed.
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So Sheffields famous Tinsley Towers are to be demolished? Not without me climbing them first their not!!

Snappel and I went for a visit to the Tinsley Towers. He was on an urbex tour of Sheffield and they are a landmark to be seen. Well when we got there and there was a ladder [...]

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This was all that there was left of Middlewood Asylum and this was even being redone inside when I visited. The clockfaces were long gone, but there was a wonderful spiral staircase and the clear blue sky meant I was able to get some excellent high contrast shots.

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This is a great opencast dragline that we went to have a look at. Quite an imposing peice of machinery!
 

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