ballroom

During the post-war years in the GDR - former East Germany - pretty much every village or town had a ballroom. Here, at the weekend, people would meet up to dance and socialize and briefly forget about the daily grind. After the reunification in 1989 and the fall of the Soviet Union the decline...

July 2017 The Visit Explored this hidden gem with @stranton and @coolboyslim, another one from my list of forgot to post threads (possibly because of its short lived time on the tourbus). During our Merseyside expedition, we decided to pay a visit to this place and ended up spending a...

1. The History The Tower Ballroom is located by the Edgbaston Reservoir in Birmingham. It first opened to the public in March 1876 and closed permanently in 2017. Over the years it has hosted a variety of events, including roller- and ice-skating, dances, discos, weddings, boxing matches...

I visited this building earlier today without any prior knowledge to the place being a garage, this was the first building I explored. I couldn't find any history on it at all apart from another report which I'll link here...

Visited with @Chloe Explores We tried this place a little while ago but couldn’t find any access then saw it come up on Instagram so went back and found a way in. A beautiful Art Deco building on a busy road that is awaiting demolition. The ground floors are really dark and grimy which I...

History: Located on the countryside somewhere in Eastern Germany lays this former rather grand building. With the Neo-classical architecture it is in fact not really fitting for the traditional looking village. In 1898 this village was thriving on the production of beer, it was in fact a quite...

History: Located on the countryside somewhere in Eastern Germany lays this former rather grand building. With the Neo-classical architecture it is in fact not really fitting for the traditional looking village. In 1898 this village was thriving on the production of beer, it was in fact a quite...

Grand Spa Pump Room/Ballroom - Grand Spa Hotel / Avon Gorge Hotel / Bristol Avon Gorge In Clifton, which is a posh area of Bristol, there is a hotel called Bristol Avon Gorge by Hotel du Vin. It used to be called the Avon Gorge Hotel, but since Hotel du Vin took it over it had a name change...

History The Shire Hall in Chelmsford is an impressive Georgian building which still dominates Chelmsford city center. When it was built the Shire Hall was designed to permit meetings of the county council and other civic meetings, and house the assizes, the quarter sessions for the county and...

This is the Grosvner casino in Portsmouth, it has a ballroom above it too. I did a report on this a few days ago and thought i would share this video of the place too. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> www.urbanxplor.co.uk YouTube: urbexcamo

History This amazing place used to be a casino with a massive ballroom above and with a cocktail bar, champaign bar along with other bars and restaurant. The casino itself closed down only last year in 2015 and I think the ballroom above was shut for some time. I am unaware of any plans for the...

I liked this place a lot. Its kind of like Aztec meets Art Deco. At first I couldn't help thinking the false stone looked a bit like something from a theme park ride or a set from a cheap movie, but I guess in the 20's/30's this would have been very novel and unusual. Beautiful glass ceiling...

At a time when others where building towers reaching for the sky as a show of their status and wealth Its hardly surprising that a man who made his Fortune through mining in the late 1800 Wouldnt utilise the specialist skills available to him in the development Of his new Luxury home and go...

tweek,bigjobs,littlejobs, millhouse I hate Christmas shopping. This isn’t because I don’t enjoy seeing the faces of my loved ones open their gifts on Christmas day, or because I’m a stingy sod. It’s for the same reason I hate all those annoying life chores that we have to deal with if we want...

Oldham Hill Stores Building & Ballroom - Oldham - August 2010 AKA: Co-Operative Society Building Oldham Visited Solo If you like absolute dereliction, a lot of pigeon poop and slippery steps then you'll love this place. I've been unable to get out much recently due to holidays and...