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History The Kelmscott Brickworks was established by Thomas Coombe in 1902, with the nearby quarry being used to mine shale. The machine pressed bricks were some of the first in Western Australia to use shale to make them and output at the brickworks site was “greater than any other WA...

Hi, long time lurker first time poster. I saw another thread here about Killoch Colliery, a place I’ve been a few times. A few weeks ago, I went to visit the substation building. Since the last post I saw here, the building appears to have had a form of removal crew in. Parts of the building...

July 2026 Over my lifetime, I've probably walked past this place, and drunkenly stumbled past it, thousands of times without ever giving it a second thought. Christ Church is a bit of an oddity, sitting slap bang in the middle of Crewe town centre. Built by the railway company in the 1840s...

Sackville Street / UMIST Building The Sackville Street Building, widely remembered as the UMIST Main Building, was conceived in the late nineteenth century as a permanent home for Manchester’s rapidly expanding technical education movement, whose origins stretched back to the Manchester...

Hey! Joined a while ago while going down a rabbit hole of Maltese lost history, and architecture, due to development or overall lack of 'care', and stumbled upon this and loved some of the reports of locations I was completely oblivious of, even though I've been living here my whole (relatively...

Background History Shawfield Stadium was a major sports venue located in Rutherglen, on the south-eastern edge of Glasgow, with a long and varied history stretching back to the late 19th century. It opened in 1898 as the home ground of football club Clyde F.C., which had relocated from...

The History of Broadmoor: High Security and Psychiatric Care Nestled in the Crowthorne woods of Berkshire, Broadmoor Hospital is perhaps the most famous—and widely misunderstood—high-security psychiatric institution in the United Kingdom. Opening its doors in the mid-19th century, its history...

I've just finished a documentary exploring the lost shipyards of the River Tyne. For centuries, the Tyne was one of the world's great shipbuilding rivers, producing everything from wooden colliers and merchant vessels to famous ships such as RMS Mauretania, RMS Carpathia, and the revolutionary...

Clayton Tunnel (Queensbury Lines, West Yorkshire) – Full Walkthrough, Collapse & Hidden History – May 2026 On 1 May 2026 me and my 5yo “tunnel expert” son carried out a full accessible walkthrough exploration of Clayton Tunnel, one of the largest surviving tunnels on the former Great Northern...

We got word that the tunnel was open and having wanted to go there for ages we went along to have a nosey. Unfortunately between us and the tunnel was a 10ft fence that I certainly couldn’t climb but with the help of a handy discarded old mop handle we managed to dig down enough to slip under...

Not posted a report for ages….apologies…..but thought this would be a good one to use. The history Ormsby church furnishers were established in 1985 as a family run business specialising in bespoke church furnishings, textiles, vestments and metalwork for all faiths including altars and...

St Crispin's Hosp First report here so go easy but with a bit of guidance from @Bikin Glynn hopefully this looks ok. Not my first visit here but first one for many years so it was good to see there was still a fair bit left. To my surprise the tower actually is more accessible now than...

Groverake Mine was one of the most significant mining operations in the North Pennines, with its origins in the late 18th century when companies began working the lead-rich veins running through the hillside. Early efforts focused on galena, valued not just for lead but for traces of silver, but...

A bit of history… Spitbank Fort, along with Horse Sand Fort, No Mans Land Fort and St Helen’s Fort are all in the Solent – all of which (plus more on land) were put there to protect Portsmouth dockyard. Spitbank is about 1.6km from the mainland and just under 50m in diameter. In 1851, Napoleon...

Hey! ☺️ Was recommended to check this site out from an amazing couple we met on a walk earlier today between dover and st Margaret’s at Clif. We were exploring some bunkers just off the main path when we met Connor and his wife who helped us explore loads more sites and then gave us a list of...