Another Article on Atlas Obscura: Longbridge Tunnels

So I scribbled a little more for the wonderful people at Atlas Obscura. If you want to peek, look here.

See the other bits I have written for them here.

Return to the UK: Brief Urbex around Kent Pt. I

I left the beautiful (and at times grimey) Paris for a few days for the rather grey, wet and cold Canterbury. The trip was primarily for graduation, and because I feel I deserve bragging rights for my feat I'm going inform you all- I got a distinction in my MA, yeahhhh. I did it. Despite the distractions of living in Paris. Anyways, I couldn't not go back without breaking out the cameras, boots and thick jumpers, and calling up a mate or two to go do some exploring. The latter was only figuratively, I can't call anyone up in England since my phone has decided not to accept any calls whilst I am in the UK and only occasionally lets me receive texts. Joys of technology. But here are some snaps.

I don't know why I like this one so much, but I do. This place had a lot of (sometimes idiotic) words on it. Look at my instagram feed for some of the more dumb phrases I found. These willl be gradually posted.

These stairs were a tad mysterious I feel.

"Stay Down Stairs!" Ehhh, no? Instead we carried on, hopped the wall and got on the roof. 

Peekaboo!

Jelly fish?

"Come Live with Me" ? Not entirely sure. Looks like "Line" to me but that makes little sense. But nor does it make sense to leave threats to stay downstairs followed by something that amounts to "stay here with me".

"Hail Discordia

Just some outbuilding I wanted to peek in.

Some more interior shots.

We went on some more missions in Kent that day before the sun ran away, but I will save them for another post, so stay tuned....

Abandoned Factories in The the Midlands (UK)

A while ago I went on a trip around a few sites in the UK with a new urbex buddy, who since has come to visit dear old Paris, and I realized I hadn't shared all of what we saw that day... So here is more of a photo post.

I enjoy a good dead animal (in that I find them fascinating, I would rather they were alive of course).

What I remember most about this trip was getting onto the roof and sunbathing whilst listening to some truly shit rehearsals going on nearby and eating copious amounts of homemade and very orange pumpkin cake...

 

The thing that cracked me up about this sign was the current state of the toilets. Not great.

Abandoned Places VIII: A Malt Brewery

This post is more just a collection of photos I wanted to share, I love old factories and this one was an interesting explore. A generous friend from 28dayslater took me for a walk through the remains of this place...

 Yes, we did get up on that ledge...!

It was one of those days where the sky was totally colorless and white, always amazes me how devoid of color the sky can be...

Abandoned Places VII: Longbridge Tunnels (East Works)

So after spending a month cooped up inside writing for university, I celebrated by heading to the Midlands for a well needed break, and met up with a very lovely and helpful guy who took us all over to stake out some really interesting places. So many in fact, that it deserves multiple postings! The first was this place, and the cause of me totally scabbing up my right leg- all part of the fun though eh? If you ain't broke by the end then you haven't worked hard enough  guess!

These are the first photos I have attempted to take underground, so whilst they aren't great, I am pretty proud that you can actually see things in them (the Paris catacomb photos were so bad I couldn't bring myself to share them). 

The first place our fantastic guide took us was this tunnel, part of a system under Longbridge that was used to house and assembled aircraft engines and components during WWII.

These were in one of the little rooms off the main tunnel.

It was incredibly dark down there, and rather wet and gooey. Really it was just as well I had been down the catas twice before as it meant that perpetually damp feet didn't bother me as much as it would have before...

Some truly grotty toilets...

Below are some shots of the tunnels close to the entrance and so lit naturally.