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An explore celebrated for its lack of vandalism and graffiti, this old maintenance depot in the sleepy village of Milton Green was the first of 2 successful explores myself and @CheesyKennita would tick off the list this day. --- HISTORY Closed around 2011, the Milton Green depot was both a...

January 2024 The Visit This is another one that I did as an unplanned solo visit. While mooching around the connected Forum Shopping Centre, I also managed to find a way into the old Market Hall building, which was vacated in October 2022 following the completion of the new hall a short walk...

January 2024 I stumbled upon this shopping center during an impromptu solo visit to the city. While I was originally there to explore another location, I couldn't resist the temptation to explore this place. I spent a good few hours wandering around the massive complex. I even ventured into the...

January 2024 The Visit After a trip South with @stranton , we decided to make a pit stop at this intriguing location. Being a local, I had known about this towering thirteen-story structure for quite some time, and despite my previous failed attempts, I was determined to finally conquer it. And...

December 2023 The Visit I managed to do this one as a solo visit. I live fairly close to this one but have never really paid it any attention despite driving past it many times. I spent a good hour wandering around the various structures on the site and even ran into two other photographers...

This place has been posted a few times but is one we've wanted a look at ever since the first report appeared so had to check it out while in the area. There really isn't much history on this place, it appears to have been used as a vehicle maintenance depot for highways vehicles. Most of the...

Introduction This is a place I have seen pop up a couple of times on here. I really liked the green decaying rooms so I wanted to take a look for myself. This was one of the first stop-off points for mine at @jakev50’s trip last month up Manchester and Liverpool way. Surprisingly, it turned out...

March 2023 The Visit Visited with @stranton whilst @coolboyslim kept watch from the outside, being a local I’ve had my eye on this one for a while ever since it was announced that Brightstar intended to relocate to another property in the town, the building began life as the COOP Tea and Coffee...

These have been posted around quite a bit but they are cool so worth a report. There are 5 old Blackpool airport crash tenders here in total along with various other cool cars. I don't know an awful lot about airport crash tenders but from what i can find online i believe these are...

History - RAF Calveley was planned as a night fighter base for the defence of the cities of the industrial North West, such as Manchester and Liverpool. It was to perform as a satellite to the day fighter base at Atcham (Shrewsbury) in the Ternhill Sector, but by the time the Airfield was...

This was a small WW2 explore as we had a free morning and it's not to far from us. I'm fascinated by all thing WW2 so while there wasn't a massive amount to see what was left was interesting. History - The site at Cranage was chosen for use as a training station and aircraft maintenance unit...

History I was disappointed not to be able to find more history for this location. Dating back to the 1880’s, this building was originally known as Arden House and was one of a small collection of large detached houses, including Lindow Grove and Merchistown (The Merlin and Yesterday’s Nightclub...

Lostock Power Station, originally owned by Bowman Thompson & Company, was one of the UK's last remaining coal-fired power stations. It was later sold to Brunner Mond in 1900 and produced sixty tonnes of soda ash a day, increasing to 800 tonnes a day by 1926 with all of the Brunner Mond assets...

History The earliest known record of the pub is from 1818, with the first record of the name "Waggon & Horses" from 1834. The pub was renamed Potters Lodge, before returning to its original name in 2009 when new owners bought and refurbished the venue. A local resident said it had been...

June 2018 So this one has been on the to do list for a long time and after many failed attempts over the last few years I finally managed to get it done, not much history exists on this place despite it being a popular venue in its heyday. It was last open to customers under the name 'Home'...

February 2018 Built as part of the Queensway Development in 1953 and is the second to last unit in the building. It is located between a recently abandoned Wetherspoons and an abandoned Ladbrokes. I found myself inside this one completely by accident and to be completely honest it is nothing...

February 2018 Did this one as a solo visit one cold and wet morning, the building is pretty trashed now with very few windows left in one piece. In response to this the owners have recently built a wooden wall around the building. The building consists of two floors and a small cellar but very...

December 2017 The Visit Finally got round to doing this one on a cold and damp December morning, I visited by myself and spent about an hour in the building. There isn't really anything special about this one, except maybe the J Spencer & Co overhead crane that still survives in the main shed...

August 2016 So this one is a bit of a derp and a small one at that, but it is another local one of the list. The building was once hold to a local newspaper, the office consists of 3 covered houses near Crewe town centre. The paper moved to a smaller building in 2003 and since then have again...

June 2016 This place has had many names over the years The Plaza, The Gaunt, The Apollo and finally the M Club. The place has been on my list for a long time and with the Demo crews moving in on the site this week I decided it was time to pay it a visit. Visited with @Shimmy5305 a few times...