art deco

Very beautiful building and completely original 1930s. Luckily the building doesn't seem to be too vandalised yet but It's harrowing this think what this building will look like in 5 or 10 years from now when the vandals have overrun the place.

Constructed in the 1930s in the Art Deco style as a Co-Op laundry, later home to Festival Foods. Soon to be on fire - architects plans online are proposing its demolition. Funnily enough after I mentioned this on another thread the other day, voila open sesame. I got in the basement a few years...

Introduction One of a few military sites me and @Wastelandr visited on a 3-day trip to the Lincolnshire area recently. The entire weekend was extremely wet and windy due to Storm Darragh. The Art-Deco design of this control tower appealed to us after seeing a recent post on FB. It’s pretty...

Hi everyone! This is my first report on 28dayslater, so let me introduce myself. My name is Jessey, 18 years old and i've been a passionate explorer such early 2015. Since then i've already explored a lot of just stunning places in countries like; Italy, Belgium, Holland, Germany and France. I...

History and Stuff It might pay to research my location histories before I explore. The baths were closed in 2006 after a structural survey found that something put the public at risk. I slid down the roof on my arse, so I hope it wasn’t that. Not least because my arse could cause structural...

Did some research and found this, wasn't expecting the site to be this big and a lot was dark. Again all I was equipped with was my phone. The site is a wreck, but if your family has gone to the beach and, like me, you hate sand, slip off for an hour or two to this place, it'll surprise you...

Royal York Hotel, Ryde IOW The Royal york hotel was built in 1938 and replaced an earlier Victorian hotel of the same name. The advent of the railway and the pier with regular passenger ferries had made Ryde the gateway to the island and a popular destination for holidaymakers. I can...

Chadderton Art Deco Swimming Baths Chadderton’s Art Deco swimming baths are among several important civic buildings in this borough of Oldham. Four-times Olympic swimming champion Henry Taylor once served as attendant at the pool, which opened in 1937 and closed in 2006 after cracks were...

Not the greatest of splores by far and thought we’d bit into a lemon but the art deco feature that remained and company of Nelly, Bonfire queen combined with a meet with with Priority 7,UrbanX and Coverturbex won the day When we saw this we were about to turn...

This was my first ever exploration and it was definitely a pretty decent start, the Co-Op is a fairly large building where you just don't know what to expect, sadly the condition of the place has deteriorated compared to some reports done before 2010. *Borrowed history from Za Gringo* I...

This lovely cinema was opened in 1932 with a showing of the film Emma. It is designed in the Art Deco style and loads of the original features remain inside. I was lucky enough to get in but it is now sealed again by the security company so don't waste your time visiting :thumb The bottom...

After my visit to the cinema in the week, myself and my mate found a whole box full of these announcement slides. I think there is probably an interest in them here, here's a selection of 20 of the better ones. These were removed for thier safety by myself and my mate (of course we had...

Myself and a mate met up over the weekend, and explored this old cinema that his uncle owns. His family asked me to keep the name off the forums/internet because they dont want any unneccesary attention bringing to it. So please, even if you know where it is, dont mention names or locations...

I've had my eye on this for a while now but cracked it last week! :thumb First some history excerpts from (http://www.kingsdr.demon.co.uk/cinemas/shipley/glenro.htm) This is an excellent site lot's of extra info: The Shipley Picture House Company (later to become Glenroyal Cinema Company)...