Urban Adventure

 
This is an interesting site with a lot of history. It has been an automotive parts manufacturer since WWII under various ownership Denso Manufacturing Midlands Ltd, a motor vehicle components manufacturer specialising in agricultural and heavy goods vehicles, was the last company to use this site.

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So many people had talked the talk about gaining access and looking around this place, but nobody had actually walked the walk. Scott, Rookinella and I  went down to have am initial look.

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Powered by DM PhotoAlbums™Full ScreenClimbed with Stepping Lightly, ground support from Sine.Cura. Our aim was to climb to a point about 2/3 up and traverse round to the beacon, and ab back down.

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On a whim I went to explore this old police station in Derby. Well I had always wanted to do a police station, and I got a bit of a kick out of it.

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Visited this mine today (15th April 2007). This was a lead mine in the late 1800s. It was a boom and bust mine and opened and closed pretty quickly. Although not strictly urbex, I thought this might be of some interest to mine enthusiasts, given that it has some nice industrial archeology in it.
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I was pretty excited about looking behind the scenes of a theme park and this place didn’t disappoint!! The theme park closed its doors for the last time in 2006. All of the bits and bobs were auctioned off in May 2007.

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I wasn’t expecting much to be honest. I expected a bunch of old empty sheds and overgrown grass. It was much better than I thought it would be. There are artefacts. Things to poke into. Things to look at and photograph. PLUS its got this amazing feel - echos of the [...]

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Crazy arsed trip here what I thought was a magic site (but I do love pottery).  I sold my royal doultan set at auction and it only fetched like £100quid - annoying or what.

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RAF Stenigot operated as a WW2 Radar station from 1940 until 1959. Apparently it was in 1959 that three of the masts were dismantled and replaced with these distinctive parabolic dishes, when it was redeveloped as a Nato communications relay station.
After advances in microwave communications technology the facility became redundant. It closed in the early [...]

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Visited this Roc Bunker near Donington on Bain (thanks for directions DBS)

After reading about how this site had looked in good nic and then got trashed, Syme and I decided to have a spring clean down there and it sprussed up quite nicely.

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