leicestershire

Holwell Works The foundry in Leicestershire is a proud successor of the former Holwell Iron Company, which processed iron ore from nearby Asfordby mine. report for that one here Report - - Holwell Mine - Leicestershire - Jan 21 | Underground Sites The first blast furnaces were constructed...

D B Autos This american auto breakers & part suppliers on the edge of a sleepy Leicestershire village traded for many years. With the death of the owner the business passed on to his son who slowly wound the business down leaving dozens of these classics to slowly decay into the ground...

Hello everyone, I mainly go by Void, but also Hollow, or just Noah. I’m new to this forum and thrilled to have a place to share this addicting, pumping hobby. Currently based in Coalville, Leicestershire, and keen to get to know people and places around me. I’ve been fascinated by urbex for a...

Some of you may be aware of the Cineworld at Baxter Gate that shut its doors last October, and the surrounding restaurants and cafès that are also closed, like the Starbucks that sat alongside the cinema, and the Preto across the plaza. I used to frequent Cineworld as it’s prices were...

Holwell Ironworks Foundry Just over a year ago, news broke that Saint-Gobain had put forward plans to shutter and relocate thier Asfordby Hill iron works by the end of 2024. Overall, the news was fairly quiet with other steel and industrial works having had a much greater share of the spotlight...

1. The History Set on a 28-acre site in the Leicestershire town of Queniborough, Shield Engineering was established in 1949, specialising in casting, machining and assemble of cast and forged parts, inhouse design and manufacture of jigs, fixtures and special purpose machinery. The company went...

Hi, I am looking for people to explore with from Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Lincolnshire, etc.. I am happy to drive and do not mind going quite far. Probably a maximum of two hours each way. I am fairly...

Hi guys, total beginner here from looking to start exploring in the East Midlands area with my dad (particularly Leicester, Nottingham, Derby surroundings). We moved here from abroad a few years ago so we're really not familiar with the area at all but I'm fascinated by rundown country houses in...

Opened in 1970 as the Posthouse Motor Hotel, the licence was transferred from the demolished Bell Hotel in Leicester city centre. When new the hotel featured the “Bell Bar” with fittings and a bar salvaged from the old Bell Hotel, as well as carpets and curtains with a campanology theme. When...

Garendon High School, Loughborough, Leicestershire - 2024/2025 This former high school in the Leicestershire town of Loughborough was opened in 1954 by Roland Gould who was Minister for Education and was originally a secondary school for boys which was designed in a modernist style by...

Introduction One from the backlog that me and @JakeV50 visited a while back. It was nice to see something different, as this is unlike our usual stuff, we were expecting a little more but was still a nice stop off nevertheless. Information & History Eyebrook Reservoir is a Site of Special...

Quite an opportunist explore here. Dave had bought some kind of child's toy over Leicestershire way so we headed over to collect it and of course have a poke about whatever local derps we happened to stumble upon nearby. After a few mediocre stops, conversation turned to the fate of Asfordby. We...

Odeon / Classic Cinema, Loughborough. Made a couple of solo trips here in December with varying levels of success before assembling a team consisting of @raisinwing @dweeb and @Speed in January. Fun times! Nothing epic hiding away unfortunately, photogenic although standard bingo'd...

Introduction This is one of a few places me and @JakeV50 headed for on a nice day in August. We fancied a bit of light painting and were running out of light for above-ground explores at this point so decided to head to this old tunnel. Information & History The East Norton tunnel was...

Opened in 1959 and closed in 1991, the post is located at the end of a line of telegraph poles on the West side of Cold Overton Road. I wasn't planning to visit the post but drove past, noticed it and thought it would be rude not to pop in. Glad I did. We all know there isn't anything as a...