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Post by faffer on Jan 11, 2018 19:12:39 GMT
Now you've got my address, will you be sticking a stamp on that and posting it to Darkest Scandinavia? I can do flat pack fox size
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2018 19:14:06 GMT
Ta! There's one near where I get my dog food, I may see if it can be accessed. I found if you Google ROC post and the location name you can access all the details about it. There's several around here, the easiest looking access wise is between Ringstead and Raunds. Raunds, where the streets are still cobbled, they point at aeroplanes and when it rains they let it. I'm told Raunds is Anglo Saxon for edge of world
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Post by thebfg on Jan 11, 2018 19:21:55 GMT
What really gets on my boat is vandals. They trash everything. Luckily some places are just so derelict or middle of nowhere they don' get touched but nothing is sacred no more. This was earls Barton, near you gazza. A few years ago. Then a few years later. It has now been stripped bare. It' frustrating these gems and an intragal part of our history. They survive for so long and then one or two mindless thugs cone along and bang, destroyed. We'e now looking at more derelict places as there's still some history to see and find
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Post by patty on Jan 11, 2018 19:23:03 GMT
I started a new hobby tonight. Could be classed as unusual The grandsons Hamster has pased away and as he says i can make anything i couldnt let the lad down. Could be anew line for me to try out Things you do for the kids lol. Thats really good..I normally wrap the dead animals in blankets, dig a grave and put them in with their fav food...guess those little coffins work best for hamsters/fish and small animals...
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Post by thebfg on Jan 11, 2018 19:35:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2018 19:42:20 GMT
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Post by thebfg on Jan 24, 2018 2:05:45 GMT
Well I have visited a lovely country mansion that became a school and more recently a care home. Beautiful it was.
And I've just got back from my local police station. Wanted to do it for ages but was too scared got in tonight. It's due very shortly to be knocked down and was pretty empty.
I am going to pit up two or three pics. Because I'm going to. I don't know if anyone cares or not if you do I'll give a little report on the care home.
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Post by patty on Jan 24, 2018 7:32:26 GMT
Well I have visited a lovely country mansion that became a school and more recently a care home. Beautiful it was. And I've just got back from my local police station. Wanted to do it for ages but was too scared got in tonight. It's due very shortly to be knocked down and was pretty empty. I am going to pit up two or three pics. Because I'm going to. I don't know if anyone cares or not if you do I'll give a little report on the care home. I'm interested...not quite brave enough to tackle empty mansions/care homes etc here but abroad I've sneaked around some very strange empty buildings in cannot remember the place but I call it the city of fronts with no backs...in that place you cannot see whats out of bounds as its all so odd...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 8:00:11 GMT
Well I have visited a lovely country mansion that became a school and more recently a care home. Beautiful it was. And I've just got back from my local police station. Wanted to do it for ages but was too scared got in tonight. It's due very shortly to be knocked down and was pretty empty. I am going to pit up two or three pics. Because I'm going to. I don't know if anyone cares or not if you do I'll give a little report on the care home. Please do, I've had a good look round www.28dayslater.co.uk/ over the last week or so. - been ages since i've looked at that site, there is a couple of good threads on Listers of Dursley and Coalbrookedale Foundry for those witha boaty interest.
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Post by thebfg on Jan 24, 2018 15:50:14 GMT
Gazza, I am a member on 28DL in future will be putting reports on there and will link to them. This is the 5th time at writing this post. Anyway Shirley Police station was built sometime around the 60's or 70s, when Hampshire Constabulary had a reshuffle in Southampton, we then had three district Stations. At the turn of this decade they wanted to save a lot of money and the central station which was part of the very old Civic centre was not fit for purpose for modern policing, so they built a new super duper central station and closed the old ones. Teams such as the local neighbourhood units moved into fire stations and supermarkets and the rest all moved into the massive new building. When it closed to the public around 4 years ago Cid remained in there. Lidls finally brought the site for a new super sized store and Cid moved out and it officially closed. Since that moment I really wanted to have a look around, for two reasons. This was when we first started discussing Urban exploration and this was on my doorstep. Secondly as part of the new development They have purchased next door and behind that was an old house. On a local Fb history page, a few years ago My misses remembered seeing a post about the house and its pretty fireplaces and ornate mouldings, This I wanted to see. I managed to get in and explore the whole house including the converted attic and every room was bland and white. Very disappointing. I am a little sad as i never saw the station in this sort of condition. This is a borrowed photo of the bar area. in reality that room is now a pile of rubbish and unrecognisable. I am slightly upset not to see it in this condition, However I am more than happy just to of explored a police station. Here are my a few of my pics. Adrian
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Post by thebfg on Jan 24, 2018 16:37:06 GMT
I will split the posts and resize the photos for ease. Westbury House and its history The Ulnod of Edward the Confessor is recorded as an early owner of the mansion. It was assessed at 3 hides then, and in the Domesday survey. The mansion had a colourful history, with a succession of owners rising and falling in the favour of different kings. Robert le Ewer, the yeoman of King Edward II, was given permission to fortify the house; he held Odiham Castle ‘during the king’s pleasure’, fell out with the king, and was subsequently restored to favour. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was owned by the Fawconer family. The great fire The mansion was bought from the Gage family in 1866 by John Delaware Lewis. In 1904, the Times of London reported the heroism of his son, Colonel Le Roy Lewis, in saving the lives of some of his domestic staff from a devastating fire which destroyed the Palladian mansion: ‘The escape of the occupants was most exciting. The French governess, who occupied a bedroom at the rear of the main part of the house, raised the alarm at about 3am. Her cries were heard by Colonel Le Roy-Lewis, who immediately did what he could to rouse the family. Rushing out of his bedroom he found the staircase burning and the corridors filled with smoke, and all means of escape cut off. His first impulse was to save his five children, and he ran through the flames to the children’s wing and found that that part of the house was safe. Getting out of a window, he scrambled along a narrow ledge to a stack pipe, down which he slid to the ground, a distance of about 40 ft. He rushed to the stables, and with some difficulty roused the stablemen, and with the aid of three of them tried to raise a heavy ladder to the French governess’ window, but it fell and broke.’ ‘Owing to the efforts of Colonel Le Roy-Lewis himself, no lives were lost by fire, but the housekeeper, an elderly woman named Jane Henley, who had been in the service of the family for many years, died on the roof from shock and fright before she could be rescued.’ ‘The mansion itself is an old one, standing in a well-wooded park of 500 acres, and is in the Queen Anne style. It contained many fine pictures and some rich carving by Gibbons. Most of the rooms were wainscotted in oak, and there was a fine library. All these have been destroyed, only a few articles of furniture being saved. The family lost all their personal belongings.’ The gallant Colonel lost no time in rebuilding the mansion, regardless of cost. Ground-floor rooms included a ‘saloon or lounge’ (45ft by 27ft), with oak-panelled walls and housing a ‘three-manual organ, electrically blown’, an elegant drawing room (72ft by 21ft), fitted with mahogany glazed bookcases of Chippendale design, a dining room (32ft by 21ft), with painted panel walls; plus a study, boudoir and billiards room…. and so it went on, three floors of Edwardian comfort, including a passenger lift and central heating. Break-up of the estate The estate was broken up in 1924, when it became a well-known and successful preparatory school, a use that continued for many years, until the 1980s when it was converted into a nursing home.
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Post by peterboat on Jan 24, 2018 17:43:33 GMT
I used to do Type three asbestos surveys years ago on pubs and all sorts of buildings, we were normally the last persons in before the building is knocked down [as long as nothing serious was found] Its a strange feeling walking around a lovely historical building knowing its life was measured in seconds once we walked out
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Post by lollygagger on Jan 24, 2018 20:32:12 GMT
I had a year or so doing 5 or 6 roof top surveys a week for microwave links in London. I've been right to the top of every tall building there, up the radio masts if there was one and right down into the basements too. It was a great experience. The company I was working for were a flash in the pan, overtaken by technology before they did anything but mount up debt. They went bust owing me over £5k but I'd charged them an arm and a leg (and a kidney) up until then so hey ho.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 24, 2018 20:35:51 GMT
I have the same hobby as Arnold Layne.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 21:31:45 GMT
I have the same hobby as Arnold Layne. Good man! No excuse needed 👍🍻
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