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Willy

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Hay all,

Ive quite literally been inspired by Snappel and his website (www.level-two.co.uk) and am beginning to get into the art of "Urban Exploring" or UE (basically exploring buildings/under groung/cranes etc and documenting the adventure!)

Ive basically started this thread to see if anyone else on here does it. And Id quite like to see your work.

Just to let you all know, I'm going to redo the quarry (see picture below) on Thursday and get it all done properly then I'm off to Birmingham to see its wonders, with my dad :lol: and then have many plans for in and around my area. Ill post up with the results!

Heres a quarry I stumbled across about 4 miles away from me:

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Excuse grainy picture (Y) will be improved upon as of Thursday!

Lets see what you've got.

Willis

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RPT... took a while but I got there in the end!!

Yes, Birmingham has lots to offer. Lots of old abandoned industry there, old foundries, jewellers (no gold left I'm afraid!) and factories. I started doing this mainly through trials, as we'd stop off in old industrial areas and find buildings to look round, tunnels, etc. Then I realised loads of people were doing it so I got more involved. Yes, I've ridden my bike less in the last year, but I still try and find time to do both. Later this month I'm hoping to get to Glasgow, London and Paris, and maybe Brussels soon. Lots to see on the continent...

I tend to post stuff in the RPT (;)) now and then, but here's some recent photos...

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I started getting into it but not been out for a while, although i did a construction site a while ago which now has a crane a storey or two above the roof ridge level which may be cool, and theres a couple of cranes in MK i spotted overlooking a lake and windmill, would be a great daytime explore that.

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Hmm, not my cup of tea, but each to there own. Looks too much like GCSE Coursework :)

Not knocking your photography skills there, I just remember people in my school taking photos of mining equipment and stuff, which personally I didn't find fun to look at...Although I'd enjoy it more if I were actually there...which is what you get the enjoyment from I suppose.

But...ignore me. You have fun.

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well said lol.

its crap how things get named.. when people have been and do stuff like that... i rmember ages ago me and mates used to just go random places for a laugh, just trying not to get caught lol

i suppose its a grown up-ish derivative.

no we are not trespassing...we are urban exploring, officer.

lol

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I'm pretty sure someone will be along to correct this, but I think that trespassing is NOT an arrest-able offence; they can only ask you to leave. However, if you BREAK in, then you can be done for criminal damage. Or something.

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I'm pretty sure someone will be along to correct this, but I think that trespassing is NOT an arrest-able offence; they can only ask you to leave. However, if you BREAK in, then you can be done for criminal damage. Or something.

trespassing is a civil crime, nothing more (unless your going on MOD or railway property, the only 2 instances in britain, where trespassing in itself is arrestable). however it can become more serious, criminal damage, breaking and entering, trespass with intention. etc.

basically your caught in an old manor house with a camera, no bags or anything, unless you broke in, youll be let go. although police may come to escort you off the premises, gear cant be confiscated etc. and providing you leave when asked too thats it.

howevr going with swag sacks, or lockpicking equipment, bolt cutters etc, is classed as going tooled up. which is arrestable(as either breaking or entering, or trespass with intent to burgle.)

trouble is, criminal damage is as minor as squashing flowers,leaving footprints in the grass etc.

and thats the law, however reality is different.

farmers, landowners, security guards and members of the public with a false sense of moral highground on a power trip, will tell you the cameras got images of there building therefore the camera and the memory card is theirs, that its arrestable etc. if theres any doubt over this, you can just call the police yourself.

also, technically the police have got no right to delete images or anything off your camera/memory card, for any reason, but although not on the UE front, i personally know of 2 people, who had film cameras(1 disposable, 1 normal) returned to them after the belle vue riots(manchester ravers will know what im on about) with films removed, because there was a chance there was police brutality on there, so things dont always go by the book when it comes to police/security, as for the what would happen if you came into contact with military police or the like for going on a mod site that wasnt labelled up as mod(i.e bases without no mod trespassing signs on them, due to them not officially existing) doesnt bear thinking about really, even if you havent actually broke the law.

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I'm pretty sure someone will be along to correct this, but I think that trespassing is NOT an arrest-able offence; they can only ask you to leave. However, if you BREAK in, then you can be done for criminal damage. Or something.

Nope its not.

Im part of the forum snappel goes on.

Aslong as you agree to being escorted out of the premises then you are fine.

and aslong as you dont take anything with you meaning taking items from the property without being told to do so.

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I'm pretty sure someone will be along to correct this, but I think that trespassing is NOT an arrest-able offence; they can only ask you to leave. However, if you BREAK in, then you can be done for criminal damage. Or something.

Thought 'Breaking and Entering' was an arrestable offence, whilst tresspassing was not?

Back on topic, everywhere which would be good for it round here is full of tramps. :turned:

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dont try and make it ok to trespass

cos thats all ur doing trespassing

its not f**king art its been nosey

i have NITHING against it i love breaking in to places:D

Trespass is a by-product of UE, it's just a name given to going somewhere without permission. Once you realise that you'll most likely not get caught, and if you do nothing will happen, then you'll see the most unimaginable and interesting things. Yes, it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I seem to remember you saying you wanted to get up a crane Dave.

As for breaking into places, it's this kind of mentality that confuses people. None of these places had to be broken into. There was always a window, basement access, a skylight or a big wide open door. It's hard for people to understand because we're brought up in a world where you only go 'where you're allowed', you obey signs saying keep out and don't think to question it. People can never believe that such important places (Rover plant for example) are WIDE open - because they never looked! I used to stand and wonder what was in old buildings and warehouses - once I started doing this it opened up a whole world of new places, all of which were more interesting than the local pub or shopping centre.

I'm not trying to promote UE, it's just something I do, and I don't really care what people who don't do it think. It's a bit like trials... remember all those times you hear ignorant comments like 'where's your seat?' - well I get lots of that 'Isn't it just breaking in?' and 'I bet you grafitti and torch places when you're done'. It's the same old bollocks.

Ian, are you heading underground in paris?

Yes. Specifically some parts of the Catacombs. Which, as it happens, is illegal and a fine-able offence, not because any damage is done (there are carefully preserved ways in if you have the contacts) but because the French Police are understandably not that cool about people traversing networks of tunnels under their capital.

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I'm pretty sure someone will be along to correct this, but I think that trespassing is NOT an arrest-able offence; they can only ask you to leave. However, if you BREAK in, then you can be done for criminal damage. Or something.

Well, actually there is one sort of trespass that is indictable, aggravated trespass, if you go somewhere and make shed loads of noise etc you should be fine, just leave when you're asked, you're fine. However in Scotland there are no real trespass laws.

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Yes, but Scottish security guards are renowned down here for being hard bastards!! Heading up to Scotland soon all being well, so I'll have to be careful...

As you say though aggravated trespass is arrestable. If asked to leave you should do so - it's always good to remember that it's not your land. My way of thinking is that if you're caught, it's game over, so there'd be no point even trying to stay. Plus, of course, there's no point causing unnecessary trouble for the guards - they're only doing their job after all.

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Man I love doing this.

I find it so facinating going around deralict buildings and sites, finding the histories ect.

We are lucky here, we have Shoreham Cement works up the road, was abandoned before WW2, Then used as a POW camp, then was shut down in the 91.

Been in there quite a few times, taking pics ect.

Went there at midnight on Jan 1st few years back, just had a few flash lights and some candels, made some awsome shots with candel light.

Spooky as hell though.

Last year we tried to get into Caine Hill Mental Asilumn. Was shut down in 70s, was previoulsy used as a place to experiment on metaly ill peopel to try and sure them

Unfortunatly Caine hill is one of the best gaurded places in the south, so didnt get very close.

Will try again sometime.

Really want to get about and find more places like these in the country.

http://www.abandoned-britain.com/ - an amzing site from top guys at this

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Shoreham was awesome when I first went there. Can't believe we did it, looking back, just went in one night with some bike lights as torches. Creepy as hell but the view from the roof as the sun came up was awesome...

Abandoned Britain is a good site, and that's where I first saw Cane Hill. After that I had to go. Luckily for me it was December 2005, and although it wasn't easy it was easier then than it is now. I last went in July but it was scary as f**k as the dog patrol was around, didn't stay long, just needed to take someone to see the chapel and then we legged it! They're just so on-the-ball there it's untrue. Hellingly asylum isn't a bad explore though, and not too far away (near Hailsham).

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I dont know if any of you have been on www.28dayslater.co.uk

There was some one on there who found like a underground Morg with padded cells electic chairs and discetion tables..... I dont know why but this sort of thing really does get me and i just have to keep looking and reading. some of the photos are effing ace aswell. there are a few places i have found but i am to shicken shit to go there on my own so i am waiting for some one to come with me. there is a HUGE old run down some thing in layborne, by the big quarry full of water... and it is massive and it looks very dead inside. absoloutely huge.

BUt yeh i think its cool! Last place we found was a huge warehouse with 5 HUGE 80ft odd motorised metal doors that went up when you pressed a button and they had stashes of bleatch everywhere. was great!

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There was some one on there who found like a underground Morg with padded cells electic chairs and discetion tables...

I've been on that forum since it started by I don't remember seeing anything quite like that on there. Yes there are lots of mortuaries/morgues about, and a lot of them naturally include a cadaver table for the autopsies. Electric shock treatment was used to treat some patients in mental hospitals (ECT), and machines have been found.

At one place I saw big leather couches with straps on them, probably where they did the treatment, which was done under anaesthetic. Yes, it's quite likely it was used as a punishment by sadistic nurses - I once explored a big old asylum with a former patient, and he told some interesting stories of that nature...

But you wouldn't find this anywhere near a mortuary, likewise padded cells, which are few and far between these days. Cane Hill had two, which have since been stripped out. Hellingly had one, which you can find in the 'acute' ward (separate annex) although little remains but the wooden framework inside the cell. The best is probably at West Park asylum in Epsom, but just try getting past the infrared beams (I kid you not!).

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I am not sure if it was underground but i remeber being really gob smacked at it, it seems to sureal (sp?). There are tons of empty places around my way, there are about 4 empty intreting looking places down the same road out way.

call me twisted but i would really like to get into a old asylum or some thing similar. what was the kinda stories he told bud? sounds really intresting? I dont have a clue about it but i really do find it very intresting in a very strange way...

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I am not sure if it was underground but i remeber being really gob smacked at it, it seems to sureal (sp?). There are tons of empty places around my way, there are about 4 empty intreting looking places down the same road out way.

call me twisted but i would really like to get into a old asylum or some thing similar. what was the kinda stories he told bud? sounds really intresting? I dont have a clue about it but i really do find it very intresting in a very strange way...

Come to Colchester

We got a place that was a home for the deaf and special needs people, not quite a mental asylum but it's feckin freaky and it has it's own little chappel which is also abandoned, we used to go in there all the time and scare the bejesus out of ourselves!

There also used to be this massive mansion just out of the town centre, it was huge and still had furniture and everything in it but it was abandoned and all breaking down etc. Always used to be homeless people kipping in there and it was fairly disgusting, I remember once I went into the toilet and it was literally pilled up with sh*t, was really rough. God knows what happened to whoever lived there, there was like really expensive looking furniture all over the place, but a lot of it got nicked obviously. Then one day we went back and they were bulldozing it!

I love finding cool scary places like that. Anyone ever been to Toleshunt Knights? There's an abandoned church at the end of this little county lane, you go past a nunnery or whatever they are called and just through loads of trees and then the road ends and there's this church that's all boarded up, it's wicked scary (Y)

Davey

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