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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Was given a tip off about this Crypt up in the North West Sunderland area. It was quite the amazing thing. Underneath a building in an industrial backstreet.

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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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This is one of those explores that has been hard won. It started out as speculation, people knew there were streets down there but nobody could access them. I was fortunate enough to be shown how.

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Prepare for an underground adventure. This is a real life Indianna Jones trip and its in Britain!

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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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Warning! Accessing these underground galleries is forbidden by French legislation (since 1955)… visited on 25th-26th June 2007.

Maybe the Paris Catacombs are the ultimate urbex experience.
You are at once both remote and in the heart of a major European city of 5M people

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It’s this duplexity that creates something unique. Under this city [...]

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These Sheffield Cutlers have now been bulldozed! I went down last night with Syme to look at Binghams Cutlery which was next door to Cooper Ludlamand its gone too.

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This 1950s Civil Defence Bunker Has now been levelled.
I thought it would be in the best interests of recording the place to get my photos uploaded. It was a monument to the cold war and really had a lot of information.
Internal shots:

It was a local authority bunker, constructed as a civil defence control in the [...]

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