A bit about me

 So I have decided to start a blog all about my adventures in urban exploration. 

I first started doing urbex back around 2008, I wasn’t very good at it but we went out and had fun.  We mainly stuck to the old West Park Hospital site, I was slightly too late for Cane Hill though did manage some of the outer buildings away from the main buildings that were in the process of being demolished.  

We managed to get inside the main buildings at West Park twice, the outer buildings numerous times including the old mortuary.  There was a security guard there that explorers of old will remember as MC Hammer, he spent his days wandering the site hammering random bits of wood over entry points and escorting explorers off the site.  MC Hammer was a rude arsehole 😂

After my kids started school I didn’t go exploring so much and then my husband became ill so didn’t do any at all but kept a keen interest in it on sites like 28DL.  After the pandemic lockdowns I started going out exploring again and try to go out at least once a week.

I always wondered if I was weird for enjoying abandoned buildings but discovered  that there were others like me and it was called urbex. Urbex used to be quite an underground hobby, most people had never heard of it and unless you knew of the websites to look at but with the advent of social media it suddenly became popular.  Popularity unfortunately brought an influx of people hungry for fame through the hobby, show offs and people with inflated egos fed by legions of “fans” who for a variety of reasons can’t get out and do urbex themselves.  The popularity boom has people sharing locations with people who can’t be trusted, people who vandalise property spoiling it for others, people sticking stickers everywhere (I thought only prostitues left calling cards) and people not in it for the love of it just for any fame it may bring who sell out to the media and selling merchandise. I don’t understand why anyone thinks other people want to wear a hoodie with their name on it.  Point of fact, you’re not famous.  Having thousands of followers doesn’t make you famous.  Be humble.

To truly love this hobby is to find an interest in the history of a building and to appreciate the beauty of the location.  It should not be a competition.  There is so much drama in the urbex community, I’ve been involved and seen firsthand how rumours and bitchy comments can affect people.  There really is no need, no one is better than anyone else. We are all just people photographing history as it fades.  

With all that said, if you’re still reading thank you 😊 and I hope you will enjoy reading my blog as it develops.