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Megatron ate my camera

March 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Adventurous Explores · Angel's Blog · Sub-Urban Locations · Yorkshire and Humberside

Minitron?

March 11th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Angel's Blog · Sub-Urban Locations · Yorkshire and Humberside

The Secret Crypt

February 5th, 2009 · 7 Comments

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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Tags: Angel's Blog · North West England · Sub-Urban Locations · a contact: angel@urbanadventure.co.uk

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

Angel of the North Climb

August 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Powered by DM PhotoAlbums™Full ScreenTravelled up to the North East to climb this icon - with Stepping Lightly. Sine.Cura also travelled up to record the climb photographically.

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

28 Days later closes down

April 16th, 2008 · 8 Comments

My comments about this are simple. Keep exploring.
The sign on the door of 28DaysLater reads:
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 The end of an era, or the beginning of a new one?
For now the forums are closed. They might return, they might not. It all depends whether I feel like it in the future. But by then no doubt time will [...]

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Tags: Angel's Blog · Uncategorized

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

Bhalang Cinema - Dodge City, N.E India

March 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Angel's Blog · International · Rooftop Locations · Topside Locations

Wakefield Regal Cinema - latterly ABC

February 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments

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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Tags: Angel's Blog · Topside Locations · Yorkshire and Humberside

Denso Manufacturing Plant - an automotive site with history

February 4th, 2008 · No Comments

 
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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Tags: Angel's Blog · Midlands · Topside Locations