tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29923462273596354652024-03-05T12:01:23.498+00:00bungle666's urbex adventuresmy adventures and explorations in the urban world featuring: deriliction, active infiltration, crane climbing, bunkers and tunnels + all the other stuff the general public isnt allowed to see!!bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-14584690307103896632012-01-29T19:31:00.002+00:002012-01-29T19:34:30.655+00:00HI!<div style="text-align: center;">Is anyone still there?? LOL<br /><br />Ive had a little clean up on the old blogaroo! re-focused it, back to showcasing exploring! I MIGHT even press it back into service this year! who knows!<br /><br />anyhow, Im slowly coming back out of hiding... and am available for "stuff" so if you wanna do summat, drop me a line!<br /><br />bungle666@live.co.uk<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />B..<br /></div>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-1015892753171916292011-04-15T00:46:00.001+01:002011-04-15T00:46:04.944+01:00bungle666UE's photostream<div style="padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; width: 500px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bungle666ue/5619782573/in/photostream/" title="Beethams tower | the Hilton hotel, Manchester" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5026/5619782573_7774e866bc_s.jpg" alt="Beethams tower | the Hilton hotel, Manchester" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bungle666ue/5620370514/in/photostream/" title="Beethams tower | the Hilton hotel, Manchester" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5022/5620370514_be46ec8bf9_s.jpg" alt="Beethams tower | the Hilton hotel, Manchester" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bungle666ue/5620369196/in/photostream/" title="the Works drain, Manchester" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5103/5620369196_06653d4eaa_s.jpg" alt="the Works drain, Manchester" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bungle666ue/5619777521/in/photostream/" title="the Works drain, Manchester" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5268/5619777521_c26dee79ba_s.jpg" alt="the Works drain, Manchester" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; 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margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bungle666ue/5617057993/in/photostream/" title="Big butts" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5310/5617057993_b0ae843fb6_s.jpg" alt="Big butts" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><div style="padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><br clear="all"/></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bungle666ue/">bungle666UE's photostream</a> on Flickr.</p></div><p>Go take a look folks! call it a best of site if you like! LOL....</p>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-83079261118332724352010-07-13T22:22:00.007+01:002010-07-13T22:58:05.816+01:00Oldham Werneth and Central rail tunnels.. JAN 2010As everybody knew the Oldham loop line was closing for conversion to metrolink, i had my eye on these even before the line closed!<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br />The line itself opened in the 1860s for the lancashire and yorkshire railway. the werneth tunnel and the oldham central tunnel stand between oldham werneth station and oldham mumps station. werneth tunnel measures 471yards and central is 449yards long. the 2 are seperated by a short cutting.<br /><br />the line closed for conversion to metrolink trams on the 3rd october 2009.<br /><br />it closed in october, so what took you so long i hear you ask? Well other stuff just kept coming up, and these wernt going anywhere!! Anyhow i got a call off thenewmendoza "fancy doing them tunnels in oldham??" "yea why not" i replied, so off we went!!<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc2LM4Q0QngEsgOnbr7GZ6mKZGZH3i9RYPXnfoOKdqU2KfhR94nvDHry2C0m7xANfB-lCZ8PJ0ZErdUZ-QbSvGgCXkzaiDBhu7tzVbpop-ejxTI4QiLbuysvrjS4Hk8p7yksU5gVHRfRG_/s1600/DSC_5213.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc2LM4Q0QngEsgOnbr7GZ6mKZGZH3i9RYPXnfoOKdqU2KfhR94nvDHry2C0m7xANfB-lCZ8PJ0ZErdUZ-QbSvGgCXkzaiDBhu7tzVbpop-ejxTI4QiLbuysvrjS4Hk8p7yksU5gVHRfRG_/s320/DSC_5213.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493506745096772098" border="0" /></a><br />Its a pretty un-nerving feeling walking in a railway tunnel with the tracks still in situ, you find yourself constantly checking for the noise of an approaching train, despite the fact that you know none will come!!<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi68mTlKndiHPFaGSAkUsLbK5bl9I4rJh3IkK3ikCLWXZGAbbnVmrU7qWeBwo7nrxqXZluVz8452y7tLUx0VO9qG-kFf0HCytqB2Q-uTiaKj39xPVxjRqKw1sxpSntcSqPeJMS9ZETi3WIe/s1600/DSC_5210.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi68mTlKndiHPFaGSAkUsLbK5bl9I4rJh3IkK3ikCLWXZGAbbnVmrU7qWeBwo7nrxqXZluVz8452y7tLUx0VO9qG-kFf0HCytqB2Q-uTiaKj39xPVxjRqKw1sxpSntcSqPeJMS9ZETi3WIe/s320/DSC_5210.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493506726383375938" border="0" /></a><br />These 2 shots (above and below) were taken from inside the short cutting that joins the tunnels together, it was a really quiet and settled place to be despite being just off the town centre in Oldham!!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUFwKRt8ywW3Iog9rfpZyZ-0ic7BwyUUs1WE7rFnJ7ZmpbiFX6Cq0gbDiR1Ntee13EwOqnDj_tlWlP6VG0x8Aa7kN7essTLgh7BN_mOPUc2PU1zN1YqLlxbxt0GveCLHERdXQcznIN_4z8/s1600/DSC_5209.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUFwKRt8ywW3Iog9rfpZyZ-0ic7BwyUUs1WE7rFnJ7ZmpbiFX6Cq0gbDiR1Ntee13EwOqnDj_tlWlP6VG0x8Aa7kN7essTLgh7BN_mOPUc2PU1zN1YqLlxbxt0GveCLHERdXQcznIN_4z8/s320/DSC_5209.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493509808518953746" border="0" /></a>Internally the tunnels were no different from any other i have seen except to say there are no air vents within due to the short lengths of the tunnels, the curve was also very noticeable on the central tunnel which added to the place i think!!<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTjAp11HNoY7m8EXUXtEKBS0Vi3XKPtZrkz1O5TQGU7qmdMNZk2EdC3rkQVgohBhnkUlKg1k1I-sU2emgDfiXxDnAlyivzUsukA23idEC0oB4crTa6yturCqKYX1ifpQtMIZTgj80Iwg-x/s1600/DSC_5211.jpg"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxHBw7BcbJm4NN0fALr6mPATAkmYOkZU9wcb-eK_Zsn-ebE4fXRx4ZjxQf6vfNYw_I4ergz_38aaCbn5FuhTp_rxa9s45dBDuxpQ1JFpzJF8mRPyyvBuFAZoJmr9UrBnN19u6FxE1FQHMZ/s320/DSC_5205.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493509829700941618" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfmSHxa2YKQtNKr1lspClMiGLayT2D1LgZnJ6O5_gXW22JZn5hvP_7Yc2uqrq_WLpEo7uhRU7CzujTE9kBKki5Xf_hRRs8ZOWowOWZmjGiXDmzuS6jtQ9cHTEUWcsJd4_ZNQ5j6imvvPT8/s1600/DSC_5200.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfmSHxa2YKQtNKr1lspClMiGLayT2D1LgZnJ6O5_gXW22JZn5hvP_7Yc2uqrq_WLpEo7uhRU7CzujTE9kBKki5Xf_hRRs8ZOWowOWZmjGiXDmzuS6jtQ9cHTEUWcsJd4_ZNQ5j6imvvPT8/s320/DSC_5200.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493506656328392018" border="0" /></a>Thanks goes out to thenewmendoza for a top night.<br /><br />for the forum based report then visit <a href="http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=51975">HERE </a>for the report on 28dayslater<br /></div>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-35449013440309231242009-10-24T01:23:00.003+01:002009-10-24T01:33:11.551+01:00Megatron Drain, Sheffield oct 09Hmmmmmmmmm Sheffield, a place that is made of fail for me, EVERYTIME i explore something in steel city SOMETHING goes wrong. BUT luckily today that wasnt to be and we had an enjoyable 3 hours in MEGATRON a place that truly lives up to its name!!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhz8wMKPO3jPxdroM3ocwljOIIehH7P_jvhmr2eq6ILrnp0VyA_x0NCjnLMXgV4HT-AOrl5zQ6xdggM55LjiMUCGo75eORZzL9shucUEi2rVkFjreGMl4ZzDaTxHzsOmjbZefS0gSgLAQS/s1600-h/DSC_4764.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhz8wMKPO3jPxdroM3ocwljOIIehH7P_jvhmr2eq6ILrnp0VyA_x0NCjnLMXgV4HT-AOrl5zQ6xdggM55LjiMUCGo75eORZzL9shucUEi2rVkFjreGMl4ZzDaTxHzsOmjbZefS0gSgLAQS/s320/DSC_4764.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395957728151569602" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNmRfceGBmrW_Akn8GYaTteUWTGkMJQAf1sxuIWjpgrmnm4FFZF4Djt4PIgVvOt68whQUy6jY_azSVROVghyphenhyphenNlCtU_ejvJFdf4WMkuybdbdQLNjO3hvLlH3-RhEegBkoaQ-KYWogUSrqGA/s1600-h/DSC_4763.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivwDdkpcPNspL_PwVX-6LC0sPsgT7CZtCE24ijtEv3kAO2boikoEZrcU1cTJ-lS4pCizIefSYK0aiBFD0AT2dFAd4Hw74s4x8nMFMwlNatVw1WEc9u9lgiQv3dPjMcqVyYhlCTUo3jRpbR/s320/DSC_4737.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395957106293007426" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJXPD6f4_BVRAO0ru1GATb_AcoYI5K6sEUf64PcOb2Na6G7XdzzOJSamwm13yOgiTfGEvNgH3q5O8nuWF8DHxYHtA-45ZgnJYyePahnQGJeNP8Vwxpt9fbLHytraZ2ITeozksqnw8xjqzp/s1600-h/DSC_4735.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJXPD6f4_BVRAO0ru1GATb_AcoYI5K6sEUf64PcOb2Na6G7XdzzOJSamwm13yOgiTfGEvNgH3q5O8nuWF8DHxYHtA-45ZgnJYyePahnQGJeNP8Vwxpt9fbLHytraZ2ITeozksqnw8xjqzp/s320/DSC_4735.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395957104164190098" border="0" /></a>B..bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-1848255069635284322009-06-12T11:20:00.006+01:002009-06-12T11:34:48.859+01:00LIVE INFIL- Lafarge cement, Hope, Derbyshire, 06/09<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxUiu7BYVBzXZoigbHdoTzK36mn4yEgU8zK08VGPYjRADPAduBkXQvhNfav1T-t_yp089-f-7BvmYjGxb2NAOAEGgX0MuidLN0-syKD4ji2N7pNU8-wq0vAaR3cpR5PT1u6s0RmT4QsKzS/s1600-h/DSC_3354.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxUiu7BYVBzXZoigbHdoTzK36mn4yEgU8zK08VGPYjRADPAduBkXQvhNfav1T-t_yp089-f-7BvmYjGxb2NAOAEGgX0MuidLN0-syKD4ji2N7pNU8-wq0vAaR3cpR5PT1u6s0RmT4QsKzS/s320/DSC_3354.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346385877938098114" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This industrial giant, hidden in the hope valley, has been begging for an explore for AGES. it has been talked about and talked about for as long as i have been expolring for!!!<br /><br />Well finally after a drain fail (rain and high water FTL :( ) we decided to go to hope for a snoop round!!<br /><br />well after a few comedy moments, and some stealthing around dodging from shadow to shadow and from tree to tree taking pics as we went, we decided to have a go at the chimmney. we could see what we thought was the walkway so we went for it!! anyhow we were MAJORLY dissapointed to find this walkway didnt go to the platform, BUGGER. it was preety late by this time and not wanting to outstay our welcome we were off into the darkness, laughing like a pair of hyenas!!<br /><br />anyhow, im only going to post 5 images, the rest can be seen on this thread http://www.nwex.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4404<br /><br />I have to say Thanks to lafarge for giving us the opportunity (without realizing they have) too see this ;) and thanks to mendo for the reccy's and stuff!!<br /><br />LIVE INFILTRATION FTW!!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyphenhyphenjuIT6XH_nsgHTJnCESvyJIZwq7ftS49pAjfiUC6haXuMLfx22-eyRVV-0XgHQ0sXleZhgV5f2d-GWsc3Mb3Kz_MVxOjZf6qe73vL3gZqvN4mHZG59D1q-l9-RYvbCnPcaiv1GW-tPhg/s1600-h/DSC_3350.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyphenhyphenjuIT6XH_nsgHTJnCESvyJIZwq7ftS49pAjfiUC6haXuMLfx22-eyRVV-0XgHQ0sXleZhgV5f2d-GWsc3Mb3Kz_MVxOjZf6qe73vL3gZqvN4mHZG59D1q-l9-RYvbCnPcaiv1GW-tPhg/s320/DSC_3350.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346385874962352738" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigsRIw2ZFgZpyrbyH2edll7O_3xcde6tOZA2zsZVCGEdD8DPu57X6fryJV3xF7fYZwxkkUlBaKFFYtadIBUE6mvMTIAJdMxVfTiKfvlmP-ATEH8ramKKmfeUV-LG4GSWaNDhIaEak1VIag/s1600-h/DSC_3377.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigsRIw2ZFgZpyrbyH2edll7O_3xcde6tOZA2zsZVCGEdD8DPu57X6fryJV3xF7fYZwxkkUlBaKFFYtadIBUE6mvMTIAJdMxVfTiKfvlmP-ATEH8ramKKmfeUV-LG4GSWaNDhIaEak1VIag/s320/DSC_3377.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346385882490085506" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9yO4L31fL1B7JukOv5gGB7hx5Rw5y3lB1V7_OJdq2kqcqqA9RE3rDF_L90se2X7BWvnSijXLs8h4-15eG58yvDMsgT_MFh6WRCEpPehbg7Qz5C9dIqXNj-FFP1igtBflROAs9HfCYAfJ6/s1600-h/DSC_3400.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9yO4L31fL1B7JukOv5gGB7hx5Rw5y3lB1V7_OJdq2kqcqqA9RE3rDF_L90se2X7BWvnSijXLs8h4-15eG58yvDMsgT_MFh6WRCEpPehbg7Qz5C9dIqXNj-FFP1igtBflROAs9HfCYAfJ6/s320/DSC_3400.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346385889483011634" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCxZslUkVa5OrVvaP37CR-nAdfC53UX1xy2FIkJZtbwEym7bopXx9UfKwTxysJSs9TxON3mESxtOo7KE1mT6h-S2__wCCZlAGx3_PTVkEfZIBKSOBwOzgy9uaEAP2T0btddjt2Z2skmzx/s1600-h/DSC_3404.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCxZslUkVa5OrVvaP37CR-nAdfC53UX1xy2FIkJZtbwEym7bopXx9UfKwTxysJSs9TxON3mESxtOo7KE1mT6h-S2__wCCZlAGx3_PTVkEfZIBKSOBwOzgy9uaEAP2T0btddjt2Z2skmzx/s320/DSC_3404.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346385891465100162" border="0" /></a>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-43196514254048870172009-06-05T00:37:00.005+01:002009-06-05T00:43:01.099+01:00OASIS concert, manchester, 06/09Ok, not posted on here for AGES, mainly due to the problems posted in earlyer posts, but i couldnt resist posting this. one shot taken from the air of the OASIS gig in heaton park manchester.<br /><br />sorry for the watermark, i think its OBVIOUS why i have done it. if you require a copy then e-mail me please, the address is at the bottom of the blog!!<br /><br />just click for some big pic action folks!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOxiIRuYh_R8GSwuZdzrh1xSiUAsfuPxh6wBg38Nat6k1M6cc0Duzp8lISDqp8DnxSacPea69LAL9sO_girJ0d0AGTba7k6vSl3YPa1tBzSRAJs_U0VrD_6mh_Fmd60WQBe-y458Axaib_/s1600-h/DSC_3216.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOxiIRuYh_R8GSwuZdzrh1xSiUAsfuPxh6wBg38Nat6k1M6cc0Duzp8lISDqp8DnxSacPea69LAL9sO_girJ0d0AGTba7k6vSl3YPa1tBzSRAJs_U0VrD_6mh_Fmd60WQBe-y458Axaib_/s200/DSC_3216.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343621448779773378" border="0" /></a><br /><br />B..bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-26994124606009151222008-12-16T20:57:00.006+00:002008-12-16T21:47:50.104+00:00The Works drain, IT WORKS!!After looking at pics of this place for ages, i finally decided to get off my arse and explore it, and before long i was meeting with peanuts, lil-lilly and andyj23uk,<br /><br />we made our way towards the outfall only to be met with a symbol of this area of manchester that no only made a nice forground to this pic but provided a handy access to the river!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0540.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 299px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0540.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />anyhow the precarious river crossing safely completed we were staring at the outfall to "the works" a lovelly mix of brick and stone which heightened our anticipation of what lay within.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0536.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 300px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0536.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>the works is only around 400yards long, and most of the features are near the end, the twin pipes are the first feature you come accross, with the drain fairy watching over you like a guardian angel!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0512.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 299px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0512.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0509.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 300px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0509.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />the last 50yards is much like the first 350, BRICK!! untill you come to the giants steps, these have to be seen!! as they are truly awesome!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0506.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 480px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0506.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />well, the only was is up as they say!! your met at the top by the twin pipes that come from the otherside of the overflow chamber above, its the attention to these little details that gets me, and i find them stunning!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0505.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 299px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0505.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />the finall set of steps (to the left of the above pic) takes you to the overflow chamber, the drain that runs through it is called "inhospitable" and apparently lives up to its name, the big door of sluice gate loom large and the little steel bridge sags and groans with your weight as you walk on it!!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0504.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 305px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0504.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0499.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 299px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0499.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />possibly the most intersting part of the explore, is the little room above the sluice that contains the winder for the gate itself!! it must be a heavy beast for 2 men to shift it!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0497.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 480px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0497.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>that done it was time to move out, but not before a few final pics!! the first of some drain finds that a previous explorer has stacked up in a manhole shaft recess!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0514.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 300px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0514.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>the final 2 were took on the way out in the outfall, i think these are my faves of all the trip!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0516.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 449px; height: 369px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0516.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0522.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 480px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/the%20works/DSC_0522.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />thanks for looking!!<br /><br />B..bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-53330468497488997172008-11-21T01:14:00.004+00:002008-11-21T01:25:59.337+00:00New camera, and a trip to fletchers. perfect!!I have been looking to get a new camera for ages, now dont get me wrong there is NOTHING wrong with the fuji S5600 i have been using, its just i have outgrown it, SO i have aquired a NIKON D40!! and i must say it really is marvellous!!<br /><br />anyhow the day after i got it i thought to myself hmmmmmmmmm where can i got to test it out?? ahhhhhhhhhhh fletchers of course!! and as peanuts hasnt seen it yet i organised a last minuite trip!!<br /><br />now it must be said, fletchers has been done by myself before, and it really is a marvellous place, i had expected it being TRASHED afterall every explorer in the country has been now, but suprisingly it wasnt that bad and i STILL managed to find stuff i hadnt seen before even after 4 visits!! and i came out with 100 ish images, a small selection i will post below.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/fletchers%20171108/DSC_0014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 426px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/fletchers%20171108/DSC_0014.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/fletchers%20171108/DSC_0115.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 426px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/fletchers%20171108/DSC_0115.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/fletchers%20171108/DSC_0032.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 480px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/fletchers%20171108/DSC_0032.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/fletchers%20171108/DSC_0044.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 426px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/fletchers%20171108/DSC_0044.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/fletchers%20171108/DSC_0018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 426px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/fletchers%20171108/DSC_0018.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>not too bad for a first outing with a new camera eh!!<br /><br />B..bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-58872910499103433552008-11-14T01:00:00.002+00:002008-11-14T09:26:57.010+00:00Padiham, memorial park air raid shelters 11/08Visited with sparkuk and thenewmendoza<br /><br />NO BATS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS REPORT............<br /><br />i got this lead earlier in the week and after some online investigation i found there was an access wasnt too sure about it at first but i found this photo on geograph <a href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/755046" target="_blank">http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/755046</a> and it piqued my interest somewhat.........<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/padiham%20mem%20park%20shelter/DSCF5245.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 338px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/padiham%20mem%20park%20shelter/DSCF5245.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />the size and layout of the park gave the feeling that this place was BIG, but sadly it wasnt, it was a small double U shaped shelter with the main antrance in the middle of the U, it is worth noting that the building facing the entrance was a school at some point and the shelter appers to have been used solely for the school...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/padiham%20mem%20park%20shelter/DSCF5243.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 338px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/padiham%20mem%20park%20shelter/DSCF5243.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />After a half hour of tramping round the park in the rain we found the way in, and after getting the equipment set up, we made our descent into the shelters. our first impressions were WOW this is cool, but we soon realised how small the shelters were, and ended up slightly dissapointed, it must be said, BUT we had come all this way and we wernt going to give it up as easily as this!!<br /><br />the shelters themselves were of a formidable concrete and construction, and the tunnels were VERY narrow, nothing like the wide passageways of brinksway/dodge hill or bidston hill, this set us to wondering how people would have "sheltered" in there and we came to the conclusion that the kids would have sat on a narrow wooden bench down one side of the shelters with a toilet cubicle at each end of the long corridor. it has to be said it was VERY dry down there, probably the driest shelter i have EVER been in, and i couldnt beleive the light fittings were still in there and sockets were still on the walls!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/padiham%20mem%20park%20shelter/DSCF5247.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 452px; height: 339px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/padiham%20mem%20park%20shelter/DSCF5247.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/padiham%20mem%20park%20shelter/DSCF5241.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 451px; height: 338px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/padiham%20mem%20park%20shelter/DSCF5241.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />this for me is what exploration is all about, this may not have been a big site, BUT it was an intersting site, that i REALLY enjoyed seeing!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/padiham%20mem%20park%20shelter/DSCF5244.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 338px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/padiham%20mem%20park%20shelter/DSCF5244.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />B..bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-75107285540975919332008-10-18T22:07:00.002+01:002008-10-18T22:19:09.647+01:00Victorian Valve house.............................Well, here we have something to marvel at!! a mixture of underground and overground, a tricky access, explorers getting wet after falling in the water, explorers getting muddy, and a whole host of other problems!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5180.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5180.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />BUT sadly im not going to give anything away, due to the nature of the site, and other factors im keeping this one close to my chest!! as i would expect anyone who THINKS they know where this is todo aswell!!<br /><br />not much more to say really other than it was worth all the effort, i hope Stepping Lightly has dried out now :) and it was nice to meet north star!! thanks again chaps, this was ace!!<br /><br />pics...............<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5181.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5181.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5182.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5182.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5183.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5183.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5175.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5175.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5176.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5176.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5178.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5178.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5177.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/valve%20house/DSCF5177.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>B..bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-58479025986772110472008-09-15T13:09:00.005+01:002008-09-15T23:26:40.213+01:00Crisp Delf mine, Skelmersdale, 14/09/08<a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/crisp%20delf%20mine/DSCF5022.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/crisp%20delf%20mine/DSCF5022.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div><div>EEK!! didnt realise it had been so long since i posted on here!!! so an apology to all my regular viewers for the lack of blogspot adventure pic action!! although if the truth be told i havent really done that much recently, i have been dooing a huge amount of reccying, and not too much exploring!!</div><br /><div>However, i did have the pleasure to visit crisp delf mine the other day, thanks to bigjobs for the tour btw!!</div><br /><div>apparenty it opened in the 16th century to mine flagstone, and it has been open ever since!! although we have NO idea when they stopped mining here.......</div><br /><div>anyhow, on with the pics!! afterall its the reason why you all come on here!!! lol</div><br /><br /><br /><div></div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/crisp%20delf%20mine/DSCF5014.jpg" border="0" /> <img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/crisp%20delf%20mine/DSCF5018.jpg" border="0" /></div><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/crisp%20delf%20mine/DSCF5021.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/crisp%20delf%20mine/DSCF5020.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>The mine seems quite deep, i reckon it as deep as 300Ft although it could be more, the STEEP drift doesnt seem too bad until you have to go back up it to leave!!</p><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/crisp%20delf%20mine/DSCF5024.jpg" border="0" /></p></div><p>theres also PLENTY of rock waiting to fall, you need to be carefull and watch what your standing under!!</p><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/crisp%20delf%20mine/DSCF5033.jpg" border="0" /></p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/crisp%20delf%20mine/DSCF5038.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/crisp%20delf%20mine/DSCF5036.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/crisp%20delf%20mine/DSCF5044.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/crisp%20delf%20mine/DSCF5047.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/crisp%20delf%20mine/DSCF5050.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>hope that made up for the lack of update action!!!</p><p></p><p>B..</p>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-27678114474674167742008-08-25T00:49:00.004+01:002008-08-25T17:44:43.550+01:00Tinsley cooling towers, the end of an era :(Well, at 3am this morning a VERY large part of sheffield was to come crashing down, but not without a fight!!<br />there had been rumor on rumor on rumor for the last 12 months about WHEN the towers at tinsley were finally going to be dropped, and a few weeks back the date was made public!! myself and havoc, finding ourselves at a loose end decided to pay them one last visit, so we made our way with the masses to meadowhall in sheffield we found a spot to stand and waited for the BANG<br />5........4..............3..............2.................1......................BANG!! and boy what a bang!!! you can see the vid i made a vid of the drop viewable here <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAL5PYHp1ZM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAL5PYHp1ZM</a><br /><br />anyhow, the drop done it was time to sit in the car for an hour to get out of the car parks at meadowhall!!!<br /><br />once home it was decided to check the BBC news site for the full script, and it turns out about a third of the north tower was still standing!! woop woop, tinsley wasnt going to take it lying down afterall!! but i was sad to hear she finally gave in, and after 2 hours she fell of her own accord :(<br /><br />RIP tinsley, you have been stood for 70 years, and been a proud icon of sheffield for millions.<br /><br />you were in my eyes anyway the true angels of the north...............<br /><br />B..bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-55740210096063960712008-08-01T10:52:00.003+01:002008-08-01T10:59:11.905+01:00Kings point office development, oldham, rooftops FFS!!Ok i get bored with rooftopping, BUT i have hardly any rooftop views of oldham, so bored the other night and after a quick phonecall to peanuts, we had a go at this one!!<br /><p> </p><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/kings%20point%20oldham/DSCF4732.jpg" border="0" /><br />as you can see a TOTAL success got some nice pics of oldham at night and it killed a few hours to boot!! good stuff!!</p><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/kings%20point%20oldham/DSCF4716.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/kings%20point%20oldham/DSCF4716.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/kings%20point%20oldham/DSCF4719.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/kings%20point%20oldham/DSCF4719.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/kings%20point%20oldham/DSCF4725.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/kings%20point%20oldham/DSCF4725.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Who are these two reprobates on our rooftop??<br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/kings%20point%20oldham/DSCF4731.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/kings%20point%20oldham/DSCF4731.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Short but sweet this one!!!<br /><br /><br />B..bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-31310358474242165402008-08-01T10:38:00.005+01:002008-08-01T10:50:29.798+01:00Big Butts, Rochdale, culverty goodness!!!WOOP!!! ive finally got to name my own drain!! my discovery, My name!!<br /><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4275.jpg" border="0" /><br />Big butts in rochdale is a HUGE culvert that runs under the town centre in the area known as the butts!! (get the name now), tis HUGE and VERY cool!! its got hidden bridges side pipes and a sewer oveflow with a processor too!! it wicked!! and its MINE :P<br /><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4270.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4270.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4257.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4257.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4263.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4263.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4267.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4267.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4265.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4265.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4269.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4269.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><div><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4238.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4238.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4240.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4240.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4246.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4246.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4245.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4245.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4252.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/big%20butts/DSCF4252.jpg" border="0" /></a> cool hu!! i think so and thenewmendoza did too!! so were going to go back at somepoint and spend a few hours under there!!! </div><div></div><div>B..<br /></div></div>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-3779586878472479892008-08-01T09:36:00.007+01:002008-08-01T10:51:25.849+01:00The scottish urbex roadtrip 2008, HARDCORE!!!!!right i have a few more updates too but this one is by far the most important!! a few weeks back we went on a little roadtrip to the Glasgow area of Scotland, all i can say is WOW the stuff they have up there thats explorable is UNBE fucking LEIVABLE!!<br /><br />we arrived up there just after tea time on the friday and took a look at winston barracks a garrison sized baracks that is NOW being demolished so there wasnt alot left but we looked non the less!!<br /><br /><br /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/winston%20barracks/DSCF4279.jpg" border="0" /></p><p><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/winston%20barracks/DSCF4290.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/winston%20barracks/DSCF4290.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/winston%20barracks/DSCF4307.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/winston%20barracks/DSCF4307.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/winston%20barracks/DSCF4302.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/winston%20barracks/DSCF4302.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/winston%20barracks/DSCF4312.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/winston%20barracks/DSCF4312.jpg" border="0" /></a> </p><br />anyhow, winston done it was off to law hospital, Recent BBC coverage of this one made us doubt that it would be dooable, but in TYPICAL scottish style it was WIDE open!! although the records that the BBC had moaned about were long gone ;)<br /><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/law%20hospital/DSCF4321.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/law%20hospital/DSCF4321.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/law%20hospital/DSCF4325.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/law%20hospital/DSCF4325.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/law%20hospital/DSCF4345.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/law%20hospital/DSCF4345.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/law%20hospital/DSCF4338.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/law%20hospital/DSCF4338.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/law%20hospital/DSCF4381.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/law%20hospital/DSCF4381.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Right law done then off to the third site on the list, Hartwood asylum a two tower stone built asylum building, it looked lovelly on google images!! but sadly it wasnt to be, this place has suffered a MASSIVE fire and is sadly completely gutted :( i could really see the no expense spared attitude this place was built with and it was a real shame it was burnt to a crisp, hey hum, onward and upward i s'pose!!<br /><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/HARTWOOD%20ASSYLUM/DSCF4391.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/HARTWOOD%20ASSYLUM/DSCF4391.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/HARTWOOD%20ASSYLUM/DSCF4389.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/HARTWOOD%20ASSYLUM/DSCF4389.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/HARTWOOD%20ASSYLUM/DSCF4384.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/HARTWOOD%20ASSYLUM/DSCF4384.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/HARTWOOD%20ASSYLUM/DSCF4386.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/HARTWOOD%20ASSYLUM/DSCF4386.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/HARTWOOD%20ASSYLUM/DSCF4383.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/HARTWOOD%20ASSYLUM/DSCF4383.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Hartwood done and it was FAST going dark so we decided to make for inverkip and find a place to bed down for the night, as it happens this was a layby at the roadside!! but that was a different story!!</p><p>the next morning we got up, had some breakfast and headed to the industrial goodness that is INVERKIP power station, WOW this place is HUGE!! and good to explore too, WELL worth the 600 mile round trip!! we were told stories of shit hot security, mega cameras, and other generall problems with entry, but TBH we found none ;)</p><p>once inside we were met with the real scale of the place and it took my breath away!!</p><p><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4459.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4459.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4486.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4486.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4505.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4505.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4501.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4501.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4516.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4516.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></p><br /><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4407.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4407.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4424.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4424.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4447.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4447.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4443.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4443.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4451.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4451.jpg" border="0" /></a> Heavy engineering aside (god i love it so), the highlight of inverkip has to be its controll room, this place is MAD and just keeps giving, the temptation to start pressing buttons and flicking switches is overwhelming but once i learned to controll my urges i managed to take some pics of it!!<a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4559.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4559.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4572.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4572.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4579.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4579.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4573.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4573.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4580.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/inverkip/DSCF4580.jpg" border="0" /></a> Anwhow all good thins must come to an and and Inverkip done, we decided upon st peters seminary in cardross as the FITH yes FITH site of the weekend!!<br /><br />I liked this place well trashed but full of funky angles and stuff to look at, and its a shame its got into this state but there you go!! i suppose the weather helped with my love of this one too, if it had been raining i would have HATED this place and no amount of funky angles would have made up for it!!<br /><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/st%20peters%20seminary/DSCF4604.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/st%20peters%20seminary/DSCF4604.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/st%20peters%20seminary/DSCF4613.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/st%20peters%20seminary/DSCF4613.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/st%20peters%20seminary/DSCF4654.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/st%20peters%20seminary/DSCF4654.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/st%20peters%20seminary/DSCF4618.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/st%20peters%20seminary/DSCF4618.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/st%20peters%20seminary/DSCF4678.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/st%20peters%20seminary/DSCF4678.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Anyhow, that done it was knocking on for late afternoon we were VERY tired hungry and TBH i was urbexed up, Havoc and loz were feling the same so we decided to head for home, But there was one more site we all wanted to see, and as it was on the way home (ish) we had to do it!!<br /><br /><br />The Glasgow bottanical gardens underground station, VERY cool site and quite photogenic!!<br /><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/glasgow%20botannic%20gardens%20station/DSCF4681.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/glasgow%20botannic%20gardens%20station/DSCF4681.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/glasgow%20botannic%20gardens%20station/DSCF4682.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/glasgow%20botannic%20gardens%20station/DSCF4682.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/glasgow%20botannic%20gardens%20station/DSCF4693.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/glasgow%20botannic%20gardens%20station/DSCF4693.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/glasgow%20botannic%20gardens%20station/DSCF4688.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/glasgow%20botannic%20gardens%20station/DSCF4688.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/glasgow%20botannic%20gardens%20station/DSCF4696.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/glasgow%20botannic%20gardens%20station/DSCF4696.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><div>At that we'd had enough, and 3 VERY tired and weary explorers left scotland to head for home, 6 sites including inverkip in 26 Hours, i think thats hardcore enough for anyone!!</div><div></div><div>B..<br /><br /></div></div><div></div>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-38976051834958286922008-07-05T22:37:00.005+01:002008-07-05T22:57:52.606+01:00Lazy?? you betcha!!!!!!! mills and boats!!!But the lack of blogpost doesnt nessecarilly mean i havent been doing anything!! <div><br /><div>the first thing i have to tell you about is Huddersfield fine worsteds, a nice little mill that used to manufacture fine woolen cloth for expensive carnaby street tailors, i found this place FASCINATING!! visited with gibbo.....</div><div> </div><div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/huddersfield%20fine%20worstead/fineworsteads12PSSmall.jpg" border="0" /></div></div><p>it had a supermegawonky floor!!<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/huddersfield%20fine%20worstead/fineworsteads1.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/huddersfield%20fine%20worstead/fineworsteads16.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/huddersfield%20fine%20worstead/fineworsteads10.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/huddersfield%20fine%20worstead/fineworsteads4.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>I did manage to get more pics than this BUT my memory card in the camera went tits up, and i lost all but a few pics, to say i was pissed off is an understatement!!</p><p>Anyhow, moving on and a week later i found myself on salford docks exploring BOATS!!! visited these with Havoc and Peanuts!!</p><div>the first boat we looked at was the georgia d, just sat at the side of the ship canal, rusting away!!</div><div> </div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/salford%20docks1/DSCF4150Small.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/salford%20docks1/DSCF4151Small.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/salford%20docks1/DSCF4164Small.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/salford%20docks1/DSCF4158Small.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/salford%20docks1/DSCF4166Small.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><p>and the second was the sandsend (i think!!)</p><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/salford%20docks1/DSCF4179Small.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/salford%20docks1/DSCF4180Small.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/salford%20docks1/DSCF4190Small.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/salford%20docks1/DSCF4186Small.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/salford%20docks1/DSCF4194Small.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>all in all, an enjoyable couple of evenings work!!!</p><p> </p><p>B..</p>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-65346661078353205192008-06-11T13:41:00.004+01:002008-06-12T01:04:35.777+01:00Oldham athletic football club, Boundary park, Oldham, 10/06/08<div align="center">Ok being a generally cautios explorer i had BAD karma about this all day, now fellow explorers know if it feels bad, then its generally going to end in gettin busted, but not on this occasion!! a mate had told me about the impending demolition of the lookers stand (new start mortgages stand) on boundary park a few weeks back, so i decided to put the place under obs.<br /><br /></div><div align="center"><div><div>we had a little reece on monday evening but sadly DIDNT have the time to explore it, SO Tuesday night was decided upon for a hit!!</div><br /><div>Now, my mate had spent 2 weeks telling me how they have stepped up security at the site due to copper cable thefts, by the local pikies and knowing what the local police are like, any chance of getting a theiving pikey will have them out in force, i REALLY wasnt feeling it for this reason, but decided to press on, we approached the stand and found the previosly recced entry point as we left it, good i thought, "lets go look for signs of life through the gate near the rochdale road" i said, OK, said my mate BUT on the way to the rochdale road end, a stroke of luck, the pikies had been in AND LEFT A DOOR OPEN !!! well it would be rude not too!! so in we goes, carefuly at first an open door COULD be too easy..........</div><br /><br /><div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/OAFC/DSCF4079.jpg" border="0" /></div></div><br /><br /><div>we proceede to the top of the stairs to be greeted by......................... nothing!! an empty football stadium, no sign of security, no sign of the pikies (thank fuck) no police no nothing!!</div><br /><br /><div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/OAFC/DSCF4064.jpg" border="0" /></div><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/OAFC/DSCF4066.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/OAFC/DSCF4069.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/OAFC/DSCF4067.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><p>the ONLY sign of life was the automatic sprinkler system which gave a nice effect in some of the pics!! </p><p>so we proceeded to explore, we had decidied between us NOT to explore the rest of the ground, although we could have with NO problems, afterall it was WIDE open, but we'll stick to what we came to see!! the lookers stand!!<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/OAFC/DSCF4072.jpg" border="0" /></p></div><p align="center">and its paddock!!<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/OAFC/DSCF4077.jpg" border="0" /></p><div align="center"><br /></div><p align="center"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/OAFC/DSCF4080.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center">on exploring the inside we found a pie shop and some signage!! but the rest of the stand was firmly locked.<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/OAFC/DSCF4075.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/OAFC/DSCF4073.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/OAFC/DSCF4074.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center">anyhow, we had seen enough, it was time to go, but not before a team shot taken from the car park!!!</p><p align="center"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/OAFC/DSCF4082.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center">a brill night, i enjoyed this, and it was good to stay above ground for a change!!!</p><p align="center">B..</p>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-14097229513716782292008-06-07T22:30:00.004+01:002008-06-07T22:48:03.235+01:00Processor drain, 04/06/08Another week, another drain *sigh* !!!! LOL <div><div> </div><div>after the usuall text message to thenewmendoza, we decided on doing processor, i liked the sound of finding machinery underground in a drain!! but nothing could prepare me for the STINK!! jeez this place hums, REALLY bad in places but we persevered and got the job done in the end!!</div><div>Anyhow, the "processors" are sewage oveflow surface scrapers to keep the solids out of the culvert/drain, and are automaticaly run when the sewers fill right up so you can imagine HOW unpleasant this place is, and we visited on a good day!!!! but its interesting non the less, a mix of brick pipe, RCP, and a box section RCP make this well worth the visit you just gotta dodge the jamrags!!</div><br /><div>pics..........</div><div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/processor%20drain/DSCF4040.jpg" border="0" /></div></div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/processor%20drain/DSCF4043.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/processor%20drain/DSCF4049.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/processor%20drain/DSCF4045.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/processor%20drain/DSCF4050.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/processor%20drain/DSCF4052.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/processor%20drain/DSCF4058.jpg" border="0" /></p><p> </p><p>as you can see a real good mix of modern old and downright crusty!! im not going to go into anymore details as im a lazy boy and have a severe dose of "icantbearseditis" LOL </p><p>Till next time</p><p>B..</p>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-41264000900137877152008-05-27T20:28:00.004+01:002008-05-27T21:02:17.815+01:00Red Barn drain, chadderton, near oldham, 26/05/08Visited with thenewmendoza. <div><div><div><div> </div><div>Ive been wanting to do this drain for a long time, we had a failed mission infact about 4 weeks ago, so we did foxdenton drain instead!!! Anyhow the fails were due to the council, kindly fiting a HUGE padlocked steel gate over the E/E point, so it was a nogo anyhow, about a week ago i saw a report from here on Derp, hmmmmmmmmm i thought, i wonder if...................</div><div><div><div><div><div><div> </div><div>Jump on a few days and MENDO had done a report on it on NWE!!! shit i thought, id better do this quick then as it wont be long before they lock it again!!!</div><div> </div><div>so a quick text to mendo last night, and the plans were in place!!all i can say about this place is WOW, its really amazing inside, it changes shape every 50 yards or so, its everything from cathedral tall to stooping low, RCP, bricks, stone and iron pipes all make this place up, i think it should be renamed to HEINZ drain 'cos it really has got 57 varieties!! so we meet up outside the beast, with me, late as usual and set off up the pipe, "well get to the top, and take pics on the way back" i said, and with mendo agreeing, we headed up the pipe as far as we could get.now i say this because this drain is what is known as a "shrinker" Ie it gets smaller and smaller till you hit a point where you cant get any further, and it is at this point we start the pics with mendo, seeing if we can get any further!!</div><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Red%20barn/DSCF4000.jpg" border="0" /></div></div><br /><p>we obviously couldnt as it toooooo narrow, so we headed back taking pics all the way!!</p>this is looking back down the pipe we had just come up, note the big pile of iron under one of the outfalls further down, this stuff is ROCK hard! <img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Red%20barn/DSCF4001.jpg" border="0" />this next pic is of an brick inverted egg, its only small, and apparently leads to a sewage overflow</div><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Red%20barn/DSCF4002.jpg" border="0" /></p></div></div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><p>then the brick pipe opens out into a stone built chamber<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Red%20barn/DSCF4004edit.jpg" border="0" /></p><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Red%20barn/DSCF4006.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Then it closes dow AGAIN, into a stone pipe, with a funny iron ceeling!!<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Red%20barn/DSCF4008.jpg" border="0" /></p></div><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Red%20barn/DSCF4007.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><br /><br /><p>Then another suprise, a HUGE brick inverted egg, this is a good spot for the group shot methinks!!<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Red%20barn/DSCF4009.jpg" border="0" /></p></div><br /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Red%20barn/DSCF4010.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Red%20barn/DSCF4011.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><br /><p>then down the RCP, you see int he last shot, that opens out into a funny shaped bit, that shrinks again, it looks like this bit is on the point of collapse ;)<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Red%20barn/DSCF4013.jpg" border="0" /><br /></p></div><p>then thankfully, the way out apppears in the distance!! *phew*!!!<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Red%20barn/DSCF4015.jpg" border="0" /></p>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-7522287063175952842008-05-22T22:16:00.003+01:002008-05-22T22:41:21.412+01:00Manchester, Cathedral Arches air raid shelters!!Now then, here i have a rare treat for you people tonight!! i have FINALLY been down the cathedral arches in Manchester, well over 12 months after stepping lightly discovered the entrance to these beuties ive finally cracked it!! and boy oh boy was the wait worth it, There has been a HELL of a lot of speculation going on about this place of late, with certain parties pettily attempting (and failing) to lock access and selfishly keeping the site to themselves, and when local well established explorers dont get the chance to see them, BUT people travelling from far and wide do, the line has been crossed and it no longer is fair. add to this the lies about the access to the entrance, and the unwillingness of other so called explorers to help or show these to anyone outside of there own elitest little click, it all adds up to a HUGE headache im sure you will agree!! <div><div> </div><div>Enter andyj23uk, and bigjobs, they devised a cuning plan to make the arches accessible to ALL explorers without jeapordising the site and without making it too obvious what we were up too!! a HUGE thanks goes out to these lads in getting this sorted and it just shows how easy it would have been for "other" people to do this to get us in!! Oh and before you all start bitching that we used the soft entrance i would like to catergorically state here, that we did not, we did it the proper way!!</div><br /><div>Anyhow present on the day were as follows, andyj23uk, big and littlejobs, sparkuk, dodge, havoc, gibbo and myself!!</div><br /><div>enough ramblings now and on with the pics!!!</div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/cathedral%20steps/DSCF3938.jpg" border="0" /></div></div><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/cathedral%20steps/DSCF3940.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/cathedral%20steps/DSCF3945.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/cathedral%20steps/DSCF3943.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/cathedral%20steps/DSCF3949.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/cathedral%20steps/DSCF3950.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/cathedral%20steps/DSCF3959.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/cathedral%20steps/DSCF3951.jpg" border="0" /></p><p> </p><p>All in all it has to be said this was a proper evening out, i thououghly enjoyed it, and if it wasnt for my late arrival i would have had a LOAD more pics!! needless to be said, me and the arches WILL do battle once more!!!</p><p> </p><p>bungle</p>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-8596027851993715402008-04-26T15:11:00.004+01:002008-04-26T15:42:16.666+01:00Im singing in the DRAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!I have found a new addiction in my life, no it isnt some new drug, or tobbacco its DRAINS!!<br /><div><div><div><div> </div><div>there brilliant!! who would have thought there could be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo much under our feet!!</div><br /><div>we started the week with a known easy one, Foxdenton in Chadderton near Oldham:-</div><br /><div>half brick half concrete construction, walk in access it couldnt have looked easyer OR SO WE THOUGHT!!</div><div> </div><div>about half way along the water got wayyyyyy to deep for the waders, and we had to beat a hasty retreat, we were told it WAS shallow all the way through, but it seems that there may be a blockage somewhere!!</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Foxdenton%20culvert/DSCF3686.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Foxdenton%20culvert/DSCF3689.jpg" border="0" /></div></div><br /><br /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Foxdenton%20culvert/DSCF3694.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Foxdenton%20culvert/DSCF3692.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><br /><p>Anyhow, after we were forced to abandon foxdenton, we went to look at another i know has needed checking out for a while, under the M62 in milnrow ;)</p><p>a pretty boring culveted river, BUT it needed exploring non the less!!</p><br /><br /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/M62%20culvert/DSCF3709Small.jpg" border="0" /></p></div><br /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/M62%20culvert/DSCF3710Small.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/M62%20culvert/DSCF3712Small.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/M62%20culvert/DSCF3714Small.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><p>Then to top off the week nicely we did the mighty BUNKER in Warrington, this place is drain mecca, and we've done it!! </p><p>3.5 miles (ish) of 2meter RCP, chambers, waterfalls, pipes, and a swirlpot, this place has got the lot!!</p><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Bunker%20drain1/DSCF3722.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Bunker%20drain1/DSCF3726.jpg" border="0" /></p></div><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Bunker%20drain1/DSCF3741.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Bunker%20drain1/DSCF3728.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/Bunker%20drain1/DSCF3745.jpg" border="0" /></p><p> </p><p>bungle :)</p>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-66007661145610486382008-04-07T13:40:00.006+01:002008-04-07T21:11:22.014+01:00feeling on top of the world!!! beethams tower (the hilton hotel) manchester, 04/04/08<a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/hilton%20hotel/DSCF3656.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/hilton%20hotel/DSCF3656.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>So, i havent done much in the way of exploration recently, mainly due to other commitments. ok, so i went on holiday and bought a new motorbike, so they have been taking up most of my time!! but a chance PM from an old mate on 28days the other night soon put an end to that. and so it was arranged, meet in manchester on friday outside the science museum at 2130, were going to rooftop beethams!! WOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO manchesters highest rooftop, infact the north west's highest rooftop, infact the 8th highest rooftop in the country!!! needless to be said i was chuffed to bits!!</div><br /><div>so i picked up HAVOC and we went to manchester to meet GIBBO at the pre prescribed time, this was a serious business, a five star hotel, they were diffinately not going to lt us in in "normal" exploring attire (combats trousers, hoodie and magnum boots) so smart dress was the order of the day, so suited and booted, cameras in laptop bags we went for it, straight through the main entrance, "i know a better way to the lifts" said gibbo "follow me", so we followed got to the lifts pressed the button lift doors opened walked inside and "can i help you boys" said a big bloke dressed in black, bollocks i thought, busted. but gibbo saved the day!! "were going to se a friend upstairs, Mr johnson, room 1704" ok he said, and he wondered off. well this left us in a predicament, if we go up the lift and he checks, were gonna be screwed, so the decision was made to wait and see what happened on the floor we were on!! after a few mins the guy didnt return, so we sent back down to the reception to see him, "did you phone my johnson for us??" gibbo said to him, no he said im just a bouncer from the bar on floor 23, i have no authority to check guests!! so your free to go up and see him!! YIPEEEEEEEEEEEE we thought, so it was straight back in the lift to head to the top!!!!</div><br /><div>the way to the top is long and complicated, and im NOT going to go into it on here, for obvious reasons!! but the journey to the roof took us around 25 minuites and i can remember trembling as we were stood at the bottom of the final ladder looking up to the roof hatch, gibbo was the first up, opende the hatch and popped through the gap, i was second, my head broke through the gap and FUCK ME!!!!!! i exclaimed, the view is FANTASTIC!!! havoc's reaction was similar!!</div><br /><div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/hilton%20hotel/DSCF3635.jpg" border="0" /></div></div></div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/hilton%20hotel/DSCF3641.jpg" border="0" /></div><br /><p align="center">TEAM PHOTO<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/hilton%20hotel/DSCF3652.jpg" border="0" /></p></div><br /><p align="center">the roof is full of air vents an pipey goodness, also the famous crane is there too!<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/hilton%20hotel/DSCF3643.jpg" border="0" /></p></div><br /><p align="center">The big wheel, and arndale tower<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/hilton%20hotel/DSCF3651.jpg" border="0" /></p></div><p align="center">the city of manchester stadium<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/hilton%20hotel/DSCF3647.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center">Gibbo being brave<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/hilton%20hotel/DSCF3649.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><p>i would like to take this opportunity to thank gibbo, without whom, this would not have possible.</p><p> </p><p>and whats next i hear you al shout, well i suppose you will just have to watch this space wont you!!!</p><p>BUNGLE</p>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-19422457865868674232008-03-10T12:15:00.004+00:002008-03-10T12:44:43.463+00:00Jodrell bank, climbing "the lovell" march 2008!!For over 40 years the giant Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank has been a familiar feature of the Cheshire landscape and an internationally renowned landmark in the world of astronomy.<br />Since the summer of 1957 it has been quietly probing the depths of space, a symbol of our wish to understand the universe in which we live. Even now, it remains one of the biggest and most powerful radio telescopes in the world, spending most of its time investigating cosmic phenomena which were undreamed of when it was conceived. <div><div><br /><div>what started out as a joke amongst us was turned into a reality this week, we actually climbed the lovell telescope at jodrell bank observatory!!</div><br /><div>i know, i know, dodgy stuff, but it really was GREAT fun!!!</div><br /><div>first a little history!!</div><br /><div>the Lovell telescope as its now known has been an iconic landmark of Cheshire since 1957, when Professor Sir Bernard Lovell concieved the telescope, since then it has become legendary in the astrological and scientific community the world over.She stands at 250ft and weighs in at 3200 tons with the dish adding another 1500 tons on top of this, the dish itself comes in at 76.2 metres in diameter.</div><br /><div>anyhow i visited with havoc, thenewmendoza and userscott.</div><br /><div>this was allways going to be an explore straight out of the top drawer, and after a month of planning several reccies, including one by scott, havoc and mendo the night before, we decided it was GO GO GO!!</div><div> </div><div>the fence was allways going to be a problem for me, and not being the best climber in the world this for me was worry, but i neednt have worried as with a bounce squeeze i was over it and within spitting distance of the magnificence of the lovell telescope, i must admit at this stage i was ABSOLUTELY SHITTING MYSELF, and if it wasnt for the encouragement of the boys, i wouldnt have even gone over the fence, but i did and WOW was i glad i did!!</div><br /><div>the climb itself was hard work, 250ft up straight ladders in almost plain view of the control room and security office, i was nearly dead when i got to the top, sweating and feeling dizzy and my arms felt like they were about to drop off, but i soon forgot about this when it dawned on me, SHIT im in the motor room at the top of the leg of the lovell!!!</div><br /><div>wow what a place is all i can say, it was totally amazing and i still cant beleive we did it!!</div><br /><div>i would just like to say a HUGE thanks to havoc, thenewmendoza and userscott, and also sir bernard lovell, without all of you this explore would not have been possible!!</div><br /><div>anyhow enough of me waffling, on with some pics!!</div><br /><br /><div align="center">me examining the beast!!<br /></div><br /><div></div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/jodrell%20bank/DSCF3389.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center">the dish!!<br /></div><br /><div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/jodrell%20bank/DSCF3393.jpg" border="0" /></div></div></div><p align="center">the target<br /></p><p align="center"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/jodrell%20bank/DSCF3390.jpg" border="0" />internals of the motor room</p><br /><p align="center"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/jodrell%20bank/DSCF3562.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/jodrell%20bank/DSCF3563.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/jodrell%20bank/DSCF3564.jpg" border="0" /></p><p> </p><p>thanks for looking, i hope you enjoyed this as much as i did!!!</p><p>bungle</p>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-24529945454624651922008-02-20T01:52:00.004+00:002008-02-20T02:30:17.833+00:00frozen countryside, bovines and a motel!!RING RING, RING RING, "whats that mate, a night in the cheshire countryside? count me in!!<br /><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div>And so the plans were made, the meet point and the date was set, a mooch around a site in deepest darkest cheshire, who could refuse??</div><div> </div><div>we arrived at our first target for the night and after crunching around in the frozen undergrowth looking at fences, climbing stuff and getting shredded on the brambles we got busted at the last minute by a torch weilding stealth security ninja!! BUGGER cue myself and havoc running throught the undergrowth to strains of "hello, can i help you?" and "what are you doing here" we wernt hanging around to tell him, and so we were off into the night, closely followed by the newmendoza!!</div><br /><div>back at the cars, we talked about what to do next, it was decided on a mooch round an ex MOD fuel depot called twemlow fuel depot, it sounded interesting and was described by havoc as looking "like fucking tellytubby land" well this i had to see!! and after a short drive, and squezze through a fence, we were amongst the bovines in a place that did actually look like tellytubby land!! but that was its only good point, and after getting covered in mud and surrounded by bovines we decided we'd seen enough.</div><br /><div>next stop was the saxon cross hotel, this was easy exploring at its VERY best!! walk in entrance, no security, and not too much chav/pikie damage it made for a fun hours exploration.</div><br /><div>i didnt take too many pics as i was having an "i cant be arsed with pics" night, but i too a few and here they are.</div><br /><br /><div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/saxon%20cross%20hotel/DSCF3395.jpg" border="0" /></div></div></div><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/saxon%20cross%20hotel/DSCF3396.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/saxon%20cross%20hotel/DSCF3399.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/saxon%20cross%20hotel/DSCF3398.jpg" border="0" /></p><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/saxon%20cross%20hotel/DSCF3401.jpg" border="0" /></p></div><br /><br /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/saxon%20cross%20hotel/DSCF3402.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>we did while we were there make time for a pint aswell!!!<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/saxon%20cross%20hotel/DSCF3404.jpg" border="0" /></p></div><p>but we unfortunately couldnt pay as the till was locked...............</p><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/saxon%20cross%20hotel/DSCF3405.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><p>and then, while myself and havoc were exploring some of the bedrooms<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/saxon%20cross%20hotel/DSCF3411.jpg" border="0" /></p></div><p>this appeared walking down the walkway to the chalet style rooms!!! WTF??!! it turns out it was thenewmendozaclaus!!<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/saxon%20cross%20hotel/DSCF3412.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><p> </p><p>the hotel thankfully saved what would have been a VERY dissapointing night, and as for the first site, well watch this space we have unfinished business here!!!</p><p> </p><p>bungle</p>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992346227359635465.post-68879419869015970802008-02-07T23:13:00.000+00:002008-02-07T23:34:18.174+00:00KIDDERMINSTER, bunkers and a sticky end!!We went to the drakelow ww2 shadow factory last night for a guided tour, which was excellent. those guys down there are REALLY dedicated people what with all the stuff they have to cope with and they do it for the love of it!! the factory itself consists of 4 miles of tunnels, all interconnected and were built in ww2 by rover for the bomb proof production of aircraft components for the bristol aircraft company, then in the 1960s was converted into an rghq (number 9) for use in the event of a nuclear attack, then upgraded in the 1980s to an RSG also for use in the event of a nuclear attack, this place was facinating and i cant wait to visit again, it was a real shame that photos were not allowed, but hey, it means im going to have to back again!! <div><div><div><br /><div>While we were in the area we thought we would pay a visit to the silos at the former british sugar plant at kidderminster, these silos must be nearly 230ft high and they were my first ever silo climb.the silos were covered in (obviously ) sugar and the whole place stunk of a mixture of old sugar, rat shit AND pidgoen shit, they were not the most pleasent place i have ever been. before we attempted the climb we explored the old production area underneath and found a ladder leading into the bottom of one of the silos, well it would have been rude not to take a peek!!</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/british%20sugar%20silos/DSCF3353.jpg" border="0" /></div></div><br /><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><br /><p>inside the silo looking UP!!</p><br /><br /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/british%20sugar%20silos/DSCF3356.jpg" border="0" /></p></div><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><p>the sticky silo floor.</p><br /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/british%20sugar%20silos/DSCF3355.jpg" border="0" /></p></div><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p>anyhow after that, the only way was up, and were SUPRISED to find mendoza (of irrational "were going to fall off and die" fear fame) was following us!!</p><p>the climb was long and sticky, and interspersed with broken handrails, holes in the floor and chunks of pidgoen shit on the handrails!! but after a final open air dodgy ladder climb we were finally at the top and the views were simply stunning</p><br /><p></p><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/british%20sugar%20silos/DSCF3358.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/british%20sugar%20silos/DSCF3359.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/british%20sugar%20silos/DSCF3364.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/british%20sugar%20silos/DSCF3362.jpg" border="0" /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/bunglebiker/british%20sugar%20silos/DSCF3367.jpg" border="0" /></p><p></p><p>all in all, an excellent evening!! thank to havoc for sorting the invite to drakelow, and to mendoza for overcoming your irrational fear of dying!!</p><p>untill next time people</p><p></p><p>bungle</p>bungle666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06122089789389855598noreply@blogger.com2