canterbury

Coming to the end of my 2022 dumping now. This was a weird explore, and doing it at night just made it so much more unnerving. This is one of few places that truly gave me the creeps and it just had an overwhelming horrible feeling to it. The building at the far back with the raised cabin thing...

St Martin’s Hospital There’s a certain stillness you only find in former hospitals. Not the peaceful kind — the expectant kind. As if the building is holding its breath, waiting for footsteps that will never return. St Martin’s Hospital, set just outside Canterbury’s historic centre, began...

Hello folk, this is my first post although not my first explore! Properly started urbex towards the middle and end of last year, covering mainly wartime tunnels along the coast. Background Info on the Site The only part missing from the building compared to this historic photo is the...

Nasons Department Store, Canterbury - March 2024 Nasons Department Store in Canterbury was a prominent family-run business with deep roots in the city's retail history. The store's origins trace back to 1929 when Frederick Norman Nason, known as Fred, began selling linen from his mother's home...

St. Martins Hospital - Canterbury - January 2024 St Martin’s Hospital is an asylum in Canterbury, Kent. Originally opened in 1902 as the Canterbury Borough Asylum, it was designed by architects William Joseph Jennings and Gray in a compact arrow shaped layout with a male and female wing, a...

We took at trek over to Canterbury in late 2023 to look at a couple of locations, we had wanted to do St Martins for a while, we heard it was accessible so didn't waste any time :) History:- St Martin's Hospital is a mental health facility on Littlebourne Road in Canterbury, Kent, England. It...

Hello everyone. I am writing this introduction to say hello. I have been exploring for around 2 and a half years and I have explored quite a few sites. I am very passionate about history, so I enjoy researching the history of the places that I have explored. I am from Canterbury, Kent, and I...

Built for and opened by the County Cinemas chain as the Regal Cinema, it opened on 5th August 1933 (the same date as the city’s new Friars Theatre opened, later to become the Odeon). The opening film was Jack Hulbert in “Falling For You”. The Regal Cinema had a seating capacity of 1,750 in...

Hall place has a long history. The original owner was Thomas Champneis c1795, and then Sir John Wroth purchased it, which continued through the family and marriage until c1876. It later became developed into Hall Place Enterprise Centre. And was home to a Centre for Enterprise and Business...

History of Hall Place Enterprise, Canterbury The original building was built around 1850. Since then, it has been extended over the years and now offers 27,000ft of business space. The extensions were built to offer seminar rooms, offices and a food court. Exploring Hall Place Enterprise...

Introduction One from the backlog. St Martin’s has been posted a number of times but thought I would share my take on the place considering I haven’t done many asylums and this explore was a highlight of 2022 for me. Visited with @JakeV50. Information & History It has been covered numerous...

Thruxted Mill, Canterbury, Kent - September 2023 Here is one from earlier in the autumn. Visited on a very successful road trip out to Kent and was the last on our hit list of the day; with promises of the big auger which was used to grind down infected cattle (more on that later) in a machine...

I had seen this place in Canterbury a number of times and thought it looked derp, but only now decided to check it out. It seems it had been derp for a number of years. It was part of Canterbury University; but I can’t find much about it online. The original building is 16th Century and has...

hi, im new to like doing urban exploring and stuff but a few of my friends do it, possibly hmu if youd be down to go exploring if thats allowed, thanks

One thing i have noticed over the years is that epic cinema explores seem to come in two flavours. The standard being your Streatham Hill, Grays State, Hulme Hippodrome examples of amazing untouched originality and then the other being your Preston, Bournemouth, Aylesbury and of course Bradford...