Urban Adventure

 
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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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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It was raining in Dodge. Dodge City -Lad Rymbai- a northern frontier town in a Northern State in India. . The Jaintia Hills,  home to migrant labour from Bangladesh all coming to work the mines. Lad Rymbai is not a place to be walking alone at night. Its like a wildwest a township out [...]

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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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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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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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This building started out life as the HQ of Reyrolle who were a local tyneside based company making electrical generators, turbines and switch gear for power stations across the world.  
 

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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.
As was the case with [...]

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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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