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In some ways I was a little too late here, despite this The Pavilion Theatre Theatre is by far one of the better theatres I've ever had the pleasure of exploring. The winter gardens in Blackpool is a miss match patchwork of epic buildings from Blackpools glory days of entertainment and in the...

Not a new member and not a new urbexer been doing it for around 3 years now, anyone in blackpool or preston want to meet up for some explores.

We saw this place pop up on here and had to have a look as it's not that far from us. Designed and built by architect by Roger Booth in 1968 in the brutalist style this police station opened for use on 19 February 1971. It was the third Blackpool police station and Divisional Headquarters, the...

BRIEF HISTORY Bonny Street police station was built by Roger Booth in 1968. The last bespoke police station to be designed was Chorley in 1967, accompanied by a magistrate’s court, this station building was almost replicated at Bury and the court informed a very similar construction in Leyland...

THE HISTORY Designed by Architect Walter Pott the Abingdon Street Post office first opened its doors to the public on 8th November 1910. It served the public until 12th September 2007 when it closed its doors for the final time. Alterations were made in 1930 with the addition of the Telephone...

Firstly, despite being called 'Blackpool' China Clay Quarry & Refinery, it is in fact nowhere near Blackpool. This is in Cornwall. Closed in November 2007 and left derelict since, the site is now in the process of being demolished, so only just caught this in time. Sadly, the main building...

Brief History: These trams were supposedly bought by a private individual back in 2011. Something happened financially causing a default ownership to be passed onto a tram heritage trust. These trams operated in blackpool between the 1960s- 2000s. Thats all i have on these i'm afraid! VISIT...

ABANDONED BLACKPOOL POLICE STATION, BONNY STREET, BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE - MARCH 2021 Brief History: Blackpool police station was built by Roger Booth in 1968. Before the advent of explicit systems in Lancashire, it had become common practice to re-use already rationalised details and...

REPORT – THE BROKEN PIER, ST ANNES BEACH, LANCASHIRE , FEBRUARY 2021 Short History of the Broken Pier The 914 foot pier was built at a cost of £18,000 for the St Anne’s-on-the-Sea Land & Building Company Ltd. It opened on the 15th June 1885 to the design of A.Dawson. Extensions costing...

HISTORY This Pillbox (military bunker) was constructed during the early years of WW2 in 1940 and was designated as a lookout to defend the former Stanley Park Municipal Airport which had opened in 1931. The airport was commandeered in 1939 by the Royal Air Force as a Technical Training...

Parkwood Mental Health Hospital An old photo of the complex in use. I can't find the exact date that Parkwood was built, but I would presume the 90s from it's design. The oldest news on the property was a report carried out on the deaths of 18 patients between 1999 and 2001, stating that...

Instagram @Kyle_Urbex Ambassador Hotel is a commonly known eyesore amongst the residents of Blackpool situated close to the North Promenade thousands of people pass it each day seeing it’s derelict and decayed state stand out on the seafront. After closing in 2013 it has become a magnet for...

Hi I’m new to this site and I’ve had a good look around but can’t find anything regarding explores of the old Waterfront / Sanuk nightclub in Blackpool. I worked there nearly 20 years ago and it was a fascinating place, it still had sone of the cinema seats and I think projector room above the...

I visited this on the way back from Fishguard. An exterior from geograph since the roof is being redone and the front of the building is partially hidden by scaffolding and fences. The symmetry makes it look almost like a French chateau. History abridged from English – Coflein. “Blackpool...

Sooooo I found a door way to a tunnel in Blackpool it’s been confirmed by workmen to deffo be a tunnel but has apparently got lots of rubbish in it this area was only dug out this week to begin foundations for a new build they filled it back in over the door way until I asked a worker about it...

Hope you enjoy the video! I did it in a documentary style, please leave me feedback on the comments, would be really appreciated :) And here's the original report I did on the site :) https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/ambassador-hotel-blackpool-september-2017.t110196 Thanks for reading :)

The Day After attempting to get into what we believed to be an untouched school (I'll have some external shots in a couple days) we moved to our backup plan of The Ambassador Hotel in a lovely spot by the main road on the sea front. History There was not much that I could find, here's a few...

The Post Office Savings Bank (formed in 1861) opened its Bonds and Stocks Office in Lytham St. Annes in 1956, when premium bonds were first introduced by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Harold Macmillan under the control of the Department for National Savings. Following additional work...

The Guardian reporting on youths "breaking in" (translate really means "climbed a fence") and riding the rollercoaster at 4am one morning. Given that entry is normally £21 each I can perfectly understand why.

I've listed this in the theatres and cinemas section as the building functioned as the ABC cinema up until 2000. The ABC building was bought in the summer of 2001 for about £4million by local entrepreneurs Mike and Sandra Nordwind and converted into the Syndicate nightclub. It opened in...