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The world at our feet - The Battersea Power Station Chimney Climb

January 5th, 2009 · 12 Comments

 
On the South Bank of the river Thames, Battersea Power Station stands proud over London. Over a city that it once powered. From the houses of parliament to the south western suburbs. Four huge white chimneys set against a dark clear night. A beckoning climb…

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Tags: Adventurous Explores · Angel's Blog · Rooftop Locations · Southern England · Topside Locations · a contact: angel@urbanadventure.co.uk

Bow Street Magistrates Court, London

March 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments

I knew from the start that this was going to be a special explore. I had been hatching a bit of a plan with DownFallen and around the Christmas holidays we moved in to explore this place. To my knowledge and to date we are the first explorers and the only explorers to go and [...]

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Tags: Angel's Blog · Southern England · Topside Locations · a contact: angel@urbanadventure.co.uk

St Ebbas - Recreating the projection room

January 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

St Ebbas was one of those explores where things are just fun. From the moment we arrived a series of comedy moments was to be had.
It started when the mental patient that Zippy had warned me about showed up outside our car. Wearing a bright red jersey he lunged towards us in staggering steps.
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Battersea Power Station, London

December 29th, 2007 · No Comments

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British Sugar, Ipswich

August 18th, 2007 · No Comments

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It was the day after the 28days piss up and non of us was 100%, sleep deprivation and hungover - it started badly when we went to a live sugar factory Silver Spoon. I mean something wasn’t right with the picture, neatly mowed lawns; contented hummmming and buzzing of active machinery [...]

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Greenham Common, Cruise Missile Airbase - Berkshire

August 16th, 2007 · No Comments

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Greenham Common was the site of a massive US air base in the second half of the 20th century. It housed the Strategic Air Command bombers and then the notorious BGM 109G Cruise Missiles.

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Cane Hill Mental Asylum

August 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments

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There I stood in a corridor that can only just keep itself together. The corridor wass in Cane Hill, a psychiatric hospital in Coulsdon, London Borough of Croydon. The corridors disappeared into the distance and the place was ours for the exploring.

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Pyestock - Military Testing Facility, Hampshire

June 18th, 2007 · No Comments

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Pyestock is a miltary testing facility in Hampshire. It was used to test jet fighter planes. It became obsolete when technology meant that it could all happen far more quickly on a computer. It is one of those rare industrial explores - that finds all intact.

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Tags: Angel's Blog · Southern England · Topside Locations