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It pisses me off…

 I’ve been very quiet recently with urbex, I’ve got a few visits to post but currently can’t be arsed.  Let me tell you why… Urbex has gone to absolute shit.  All I see now are posts of the same place from everyone and his dog, like why must everyone all run to the latest find like little rats scurrying after the Pied Piper?  Is the UK scene really that dry? I’ve thousands of pins, most are probably an utter pile of crap but you never know until you go and with the right ideas you can make even the most boring place look interesting through photography.   I’m not being a hypocrite, I’ve been to hotspots and I’ll probably end up at some of them but this need for everyone to immediately turn up and take the same photos and saturate social media with them is mind boggling.  Do it at your own pace instead of all rushing and publicising at the same time and just maybe places won’t get vandalised or sealed within a matter of days. And if the Socials aren’t full o...

St Crispin’s Hospital

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  I went here around 3 years ago and I was disappointed with the pictures I took, due to not using a tripod with my camera.  Ella hadn’t been before so we decided to go and have a look.  Not a lot has changed, there’s still building work going on around the site and the bit we wanted to go in seems to be where the builders have their site office.  Lucky for us they weren’t working this day. So the back building is literally roofless and home to birds and decay and really slippery underfoot, unfortunately you can’t access the clock tower unless you’re a braver person than me.  The better building is the one at the front that is still as it was 3 years ago with some added deterioration,graffiti and fox shit.  Unfortunately, unless you want to take your chances beam walking, the upstairs is out of bounds. You can get to the top of both staircases, there’s a nice “spooky chair room” up one of them.   For a small building there’s lots to see, the staircases...

The Urbex Cringe Cult

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  Whenever I see this shit my piss starts boiling… GHOST CAUGHT ON CAMERA - yes we’ve all probably had an odd experience in a location but instead of trying to find a reasonable explanation some go straight for the ghost caught on camera bollocks.  Usually that noise you heard is a pigeon in a loft space, a rat scurrying around, the wind.  If you’re gonna claim to have caught a ghost on camera then getting your mate to hide in a cupboard and slowly open the door is never going to work especially when it’s so obvious.  Or like one who claimed to be exploring alone while there was another pair of feet as well as theirs in their photos. HORROR FIND - usually a poor birds corpse that someone has moved into an odd position for a photo opportunity.  Or perhaps a pair of shitty pants that probably belonged to some dirty article who forgot to bring the urbex bog roll with them so had to clean up with their pants.  I’m yet to see a horror find by anyone. WE FOUND- t...

Curse of the Sellout

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  For what reason would anyone sell their photos of explores other than to flex and make money. There are many reasons places get destroyed by vandalism and one of these reasons lay at the feet of the sellouts.  Not content with sharing their photos on their social media pages the sellout will sell their photos to the media for a measly sum of money.  The location is then out there for everyone to find including those that purposely ruin locations.   Is that measly money worth it? What do you gain from it? Some likes and comments that blow smoke up your arse.  WOW.  You’re not special when you sell out, you’re actually viewed as a c*nt by those of us who enjoy the hobby and protect locations.  But I guess you have to fund your never ending quest for fame somehow.  Just know that you are a bottom feeder.

Terrible Clickbait - Urbex is on it’s arse

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  Urbex is really popular on social media sites where you can share videos be it on Tiktok or Youtube (other sites are available).  Unfortunately a lot of those who post videos believe they have to have the punchiest, eye catching title to suck in the gullible viewer.  These particular people use titles made to shock, made of lies. The favourite of many is the MURDER HOUSE title.  10 times out of 10 it is nothing but pure bullshit.  There’s a particular house that I’ve been to that has been touted around as a murder house, yes a murder did occur in that street but upon looking up history on the place it came to light that the house had absolutely nothing to do with the victim, was not the scene of the murder although the body was found in close proximity to the house.  So why lie about it? Imagine the victims family see the video and there’s a load of crap being spouted about something that is hard for them to comprehend. What really got my goat at the week...

Trashed and Vandalised

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 Look at this place, these photos were taken in 2022 I went back at the weekend and this is the state it is now in  Why? What pleasure does anyone get from completely trashing places? OK so it’s an abandoned place but it still deserves the same level of respect as any other building. Would you do this to your own home? No, so why would you do it to this place?  By you I’m just generalising not accusing. Lots of abandoned buildings become a hub for graffiti artists and shit taggers and those who think it’s funny, clever and original to spray racist words and symbols all over walls.  I have news for you latter idiots with spray cans, it’s shit. It makes you look like the kind of person who has a rusty fridge freezer and a natty old sofa been sat in your front garden for 6 years, gutter scum.  Graffiti artists do amazing work, you don’t. Of course an abandoned building will attract people who hang out in there with their mates, that’s fine, we all need our own spac...

The Lake House

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 At the weekend I went here on my own.  Fun trying to get into the grounds, situated on a busy road with direct neighbours I wanted to go via the back way I had been told about.  After waiting for numerous dog walkers to go past I managed to get beyond the fence to be greeted with a forest of nettles.  I couldn’t find a way past them so had to go through the front.  Of course more dog walkers appeared and I had to crouch to hide, bloody dog came over sniffing around looking at me crouched in nettles getting stung on the arse. Eventually it buggered off and I got back out. Getting in via the front was equally as fun because a man decided right then that he needed to load his van, eventually I made a run for it and was in.  Once I checked around the outside for anybody I found a handy opening and was in.   The first thing I see as I leave the really dark room I had come in by were these fridges, I’ve never seen anything like this before it reminded me of...