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My son and I explored Lee Bank Tunnel in Halifax during April, one of the surviving railway structures on the former Great Northern Railway Queensbury Lines. Opened in 1879, the tunnel once carried trains between Halifax and Holmfield before the railway closed in the 20th century. Today, the...

Natwest Bank, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent - April 2026 A Grade II listed bank built in the Tudor Gothic style for District Bank Ltd in (approximately) 1870 as a response to Burslems’ prosperity and wealth connected to the pottery industry. District Bank were acquired by National Provincial Bank in...

On 26 April 2026 me and my 5yo "tunnel expert" visited the hidden remains of Lee Bank Tunnel, one of the lesser-known surviving tunnels from the former Great Northern Railway Queensbury Lines network near Bradford, West Yorkshire. Compared to other nearby tunnels, such as the Clayton Tunnel...

Holme Bank Chert Mine, Arrock Black Marble Mine & Rookery Black Marble Mine. Holme Bank Chert Mine, Bakewell > Holme Bank was the last of two operational chert mines in Derbyshire the other being the Pretoria Mine, both at Bakewell. Access was from adits in a quarry at Bank Top and the steep...

Hi people me and @Doozer and @Llama shot over to some shafts I found in middle of some fields over Merstham, all il say is they are in a spot that was quarried before but nothing to do with any of the firestone mines.. does anyone have any info on these n does anyone recognise them n know where...

RBS Bank, Matlock, Derbyshire - July 2025 Some more Matlock junk from the summer... This classical Georgian building dates back to the late 1700s and was originally known as ‘Riversdale House’ and was first a private dwelling, then a small boarding school before becoming a bank in around 1882...

The Union Bank was established in 1836 as a joint stock bank; 24,000 shares costing £25 each were available. The total was 6 Million pounds - a lot of money in those day. Primarily it was a Manchester institution but after 20 years it opened branches elsewhere such as Knutsford. With the cotton...

We had a wander round this place a couple of months ago while it was doing the rounds again. It's right on our doorstep but one we had never gotten round to. Red Bank Secure Unit, part of Red Bank Community Home, was one of several English Local Authority Secure Children’s homes located in...

Explore - One of the best places I’ve manage to explore to date. The buildings are still in great shape and you can see the amount of items left untouched. We actually went back a second time after our first explore being in the dark and our torch dying on us. Great to finally find a place...

Like most drain explores this one would have been a hell of a lot easier in the dry summer months ! The culvert runs under a big old mill the water draining from the Butterly reservoir further upstream . Parking up on Fall lane i came in to the culvert upstream start point then first pic...

This is a return visit for us, having been here a few times before in the past. It’s always a pleasure to take a look around Holme Bank Chert Mine and there is a lot to see here. We’re grateful to the landowner for their continued support in allowing access and encourage everyone to seek the...

Background: Opened over 30 years ago in the Walkley area of Sheffield, The Baker's Shop closed in November 2023 after a serving the community for a significant amount of time. The Bakers Shop was inside the old Yorkshire Bank building on Howard Road, Walkley, and opened in the 1990s...

visited with @GRONK The Union bank of Manchester was founded in 1836, the current building was built in 1911 was bought by Barclays bank in 1919 but remained as Union bank until 1940 once the building closed as a bank it had various uses the last being a discount shop closing sometime around...

Let this report serve as some sort of 'proof of life'. I found this building one morning by accident while trying to take a bus from Mostar to a place called Blagaj, anyway - when we got back to Mostar later the same afternoon i did a quick loop of the building, found a suitable way in at...

I last visited this 7 years ago and as I was passing I decided to have a look to see if the res was still there I walked up and the res is no longer visible from the road side, it's now an overgrown mound of brambles After getting up close I could see the small hole in the side and I'm not one...