Urban Adventure

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Drove up on Sat morning. We started by meeting up with Brickman to check out an old mental asylum called St Marys. Took a little faff to find suitable access.

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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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Williams Fasteners, was founded in 1870 by the Williams brothers, and was based at Green Lane in Shalesmoor in Sheffield until 1997. The company then relocated to the outskirts of Sheffield near the M1 to make distribution easier. It’s really nice to see it didn’t shut down.

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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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Well what can I say….no….really what can I say?? The old victorian mental asylum looms up at you against the sky. It has stage presence!

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A wonderful opportunity presented itself to me on the way home today. As as the sun cast its last rays of light over this lovely old building in Shalesmoor, I spied an an open gateway beckoning me. A quick telephone call to Syme and 20 minutes later we ventured inside.
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