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The History Founded in 1665, the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey began as a small private gunpowder works powered by the River Lea. Its location offered abundant water for driving machinery while keeping the hazardous process away from densely populated areas. As Britain's military...

The History Founded in 1665, the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey began as a small private gunpowder works powered by the River Lea. Its location offered abundant water for driving machinery while keeping the hazardous process away from densely populated areas. As Britain's military...

My latest explore with @gba7s @Liverpool Urbex & @Kuroexploring (YT) was at the former Abbey Cinema. The Abbey Cinema was opened on Saturday 4th March 1939 by the Regal Cinema Co. Ltd, the first film screen was the, “Joy of Living” starring Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. It cost £50,000...

The Abbey Cinema in Wavertree, Liverpool, opened in 1939 as a striking Art Deco picture palace designed by Sir Alfred Ernest Shennan and quickly became one of the area’s most beloved entertainment venues, known for its grand auditorium and local cultural significance; it was a favourite haunt of...

Royal Gunpowder Works Ok this place is seriously underrated & under reported. My good friend priority7 reported this way back in 2011 & was telling me what a great place it was & I though why not pay it a little visit! He kindly & unbeknowingly also provided all the history. At the time of...

Basically 1st monks monestry in England, cistercian monks, all to do with knights templar also.. the cistercian monks was the farming spiritual holy ones that gave the knights templars power and free ticket to slay in name of good against evil for the lord to protect hes pilgrims and provided...

History Neath Abbey Mill was first erected at the river Clydach in Neath, in 1825. The building was powered by a 20 ton water wheel and was first used as an iron forge and rolling mill. In around the 1870s it was turned into a woollen mill and the neighbouring pool, known as Pwll Du became a...

Muckamore Abbey is a mental institution in Antrim, Northern Ireland. This wasn’t an asylum but a ‘mental deficiency’ institution of the sort built in England from the early 20th century. In summary, these were an early 20th-century idea to create new institutions, similar to asylums but often in...

The Abbey of Thelema was a spiritual and magical commune founded by Aleister Crowley and Leah Hirsig in 1920 in Cefalù, Sicily, Italy. Crowley envisioned it as a center for practicing Thelema, his esoteric philosophy based on the principle "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law". The...

Royal Gunpowder Mills It had been a good few years since I'd last attempted this site. In around Summer of 2017, having walked all the way from Cuffley for some daft reason, we quickly called off the visit for a reason I also can't quite remember. Fast forward until a few weeks prior, on the...

There are many tunnels in the area of Greenhithe by the Ingress Abbey what fun fact was abandoned in the 1980s I wasnt able to get inside all the tunnels and other stuff that is in the area but I did manage to get pictures of the outside if any of you guys want to try to get access the tunnels...

This place was a disappointment - had I bothered to look it up properly I would have known it was going to be completely stripped. Anyway, on the few occasions I’ve snooped around it seemed rather secure until one day the front door was just open. I could hear workmen doing something inside and...

So this visit was initially made to explore the remains of Calwich Abbey (previously a priory, founded circa 1130) but unfortunately there were a few workers in the yard out front, doing some clearing. Permission was asked to come in and take some photos but we were declined. A little history...

Located opposite the Muckamore Abbey Hospital in Antrim, Northern Ireland is this little mortuary. I can find very little information anywhere online except that this mortuary was used for embalming the deceased that came from the hospital. There were no fridges anywhere in the building so it's...

Oulton Abbey, formerly Oulton House, was built by Thomas Dent, a solicitor, in about 1720. It was later owned by John Joule, the brewer, who added a new front in 1822. Between 1835 and 1838 it was occupied by the Duke of Sutherland while Trentham Hall was being altered. Between 1838 and 1853 it...