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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...

I got a few reports to put up, so just to get it off, I'll start with the most trashed up place I've ever been...Anyway there's a nice backstory to this explore: When I got into urbex I started looking at Spanish blogs, and came up with this report from a well-known guy around here...

Had seen this pop up a couple of times from friends so decided to give it a look whilst in Scotland. Done a solo visit on the way home. The building was originally a high school for the city, it closed in 1968 when the school moved to bigger and newer premises. After the move they built a...

Having Photographed most of the former GPSS sites on the N/S pipeline. The Gloucester PSD had escaped my attention as I thought it was already housing like its sister site the Gloucester GCR. Its appearance on the forum a few weeks ago was a pleasant surprise. When i visited the site It was nice...

This is another one of the original early 1950s 'War Rooms' just like the ones we have seen in Bristol, Leeds and a few other places in the past. The War Room concept was based around the need to respond to an Atom Bomb attack but with the advent of the much more devastating Hydrogen Bomb they...

Normally I only really post places once they're gone but I'd though I'd post this one now. Houghton Poultry Research Station can be called one of those "Old School" explores, since it had fully closed almost 30 years ago. The site itself was operated by the pilbright institute until it's...

When I started Urban Exploring almost 2 to 3 years ago this was the first ever site I ventured inside. This site was also one of the reasons I met someone who would become the person I'd explore with from then on. Anyway, enough personal stuff and now to the actual site. The site closed in 1992...

There's a short video I've just spotted on YouTube about the GPSS, an often overlooked part of the National infrastructure. It explains it's wartime origins, and how it still in use today as part of the countries critical infrastructure. The video features at least one site that is sometimes...

Second of three sites on another amusing day out with KM Punk & Frizman, including a fun afternoon around Upwood’s famous tanks. This site has been off the radar for a few years, but has not been developed as yet. The site is huge (100 acres), and has over 70 buildings. The main building was...

Many years ago, roughly 1979 and 80's I was regularly exploring the Godstone mines with some mates. We had seen that the man hole cover that they had on the entrance had been smashed off :) and took full advantage by investigating as it was begging to be explored. We took a tin of cellulose blue...

This bunker has always been at the back of my mind since I first heard about it in 2004. Local newspapers at the time were always mentioning secret tunnels running throughout Hertford and this bunker was said to lead into them. So not only a bunker to explore but apparently an extensive set of...

It's hard for me to know where to start with this report because it goes back such a long way. If you're living in the dark ages and have dial-up, you may as well give up now! Back in around 2003-2004, my friend Matt and I used to work the nightshift at our local supermarket and at 6am, we'd...

Firstly, sorry to the guys I was going to PM about this visit but to be honest. I didn't think it was going to happen. Then i got a call from the keyholder saying can you be over in an hour. Not to worry though, I'm going to visit this again at Easter if anyone is interested as it was such a big...