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1. The History Located beside Padbury Brook, near Twyford, Buckinghamshire, Three Bridge Mill is a three-story watermill with an attached house. A mill has existed on site since medieval times and has had various names including Tunbridge Mill, Cowley Mill and Bridge Mill. It was owned by the...

In 1938 the War Department purchased nearby Minley Manor and established a tank training base, then in 1941 Hartford Bridge Flats was surveyed as a new air base and the site (over 650 acres) requisitioned in October. The massive base took over a year to complete with three runways, the longest...

Some sandstone quarries and mines in Garsdale, dots on the picture below. The red dots are big enough to have some underground, the orange ones are just small open excavations (not pictured below). I haven’t found any photos or history for these, just names on maps with the quarries/mines shown...

Purl's Bridge Pumping Station At the end of last year, @Wastelandr @dansgas1000 and I did a short Fenland pump house gala in which we visited Southery pump house along with Purls Bridge pumping station. We had a look at a couple of other big active stations in the area too, just to marvel at...

I've visited this place a number of times over the last 5 years and always assumed the raised 'humps' were covered reservoirs that were something to do with the pair of Dorman diesel engine driven pumps I'd found back in 2019. Anyway after seeing posts pop recently I decided do do some more...

Saw this pop up on here a few weeks ago posted by @Mr.Ziggystardust and it looked interesting so we called in while exploring around Cheshire. History - In 1949, following a study carried out in 1947, the ICI Company was commissioned by the Ministry of Fuel and Power to develop a small salt...

History Three Bridge Mill, located near Twyford in Buckinghamshire, is a three-story watermill with an attached house that has existed in some form since the medieval period. It was owned by the Burton family in the 18th century before passing to the Taylors, who lived and worked there until...

Hello! This is very much a question wrapped in a snack-sized mini report. I appreciate there's an abundance of knowledge and experience of all sorts of construction and maintenance from the members on this site, so seems fitting to post this on here even if the explore was a minor one. Again I...

Another week, another Sheffield Culvert. I do plan to eventually go further afield, have been eyeing up some stuff in Leeds, Manchester and Bradford, but there is still so much to explore in Sheffield. This time I was in the aptly named 'Unknown Pleasures', which guides the Kirk Bridge Dike...

Ewood Bridge football ground Rossendale While Stand Athletic might have disbanded over a decade ago, the football club's former home in the heart of Rossendale is still standing. The ground itself can be found between the River Irwell and the East Lancashire Railway line. As for its footballing...

My first post on this website is of international Urbex. The Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge goes over the East River and connects the East Midtown neighbourhood of Manhattan with the Long Island City neighbourhood of Queens. It was built in 1909 and is one of the most famous New York bridges. It has...

On Saturday the 30th May 1931, the new church in Bridge Street was officially opened, and came to be known as Bridge Street Pentecostal Church It had a large fellowship of about 500 and it held three services each Sunday as well as a proper Bible Study midweek. It was a survivor of the classical...

Dobroyd Mill - Jackson Bridge, Huddersfield (J2019) explored with @jaws After seeing this recent report on the Dobroyd mill culvert, I decided to check some old SD cards to find some images I had never posted on here (and haven't seen in years!) Explore: As these were discovered on old SD...

Another culvert on my to do list ticked off , No doubt spurned on from the wonderful reports by Tarkovsky and Stranton i decided to get this done . Starting at the lowest point downstream access was easy enough just a clamber over the old wall . The old mill above it has completely gone and...

Explored in the good company of concreteJungle. It appears that this watercourse was originally known as the Sheep Washers Brook, but has for a very long time been known by locals as the Devil’s Hole. Several years ago the sewer portion of the drain was given the name Shatterproof possibly...