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Saw this pop up on here a few weeks ago posted by @Mr.Ziggystardust and it looked interesting so we called in while exploring around Cheshire. History - In 1949, following a study carried out in 1947, the ICI Company was commissioned by the Ministry of Fuel and Power to develop a small salt...

Finally got into the Royal Haslar Hospital in Gosport. This place has been on my to do list for nearly four years, and being so local (Portsmouth) so it felt amazing to finally get inside. It’s been a long time coming, and it definitely lived up to the wait though it is very decayed. My...

Putting this trio of modest military sites located in the north-east corner of Leicestershire/south-west of Lincolnshire together as in their own right, two of them at least, don't really merit a report in their own right. 1. RAF Saltby This is an ex-World War II airfield in Leicestershire...

An abandoned MOD observation post in Cornwall, which, for decades, was used as a secret torpedo testing station Between 1952 and 1993, run by the RAF, the Aircraft Torpedo Development Unit (ATDU) and eventually the Royal Navy, the station at Porthkerris Point functioned as the main control...

Development of COD Donnington began pre-WW2, but it started expanding much more rapidly during the war. By the 80s, it was one of the only two remaining CODs (Central Ordnance Depot) overseen by the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and one of the largest military stores in Europe. At the turn of the...

Afternoon, not sure if this is worthy of a post or not but here goes. Being a local and a regular visitor to the site, I noticed on my last visit that the gate to the police building was open, and that a car was in there. Spoke to the person who was friendly and gave me permission to go and...

MOD Donnington Throwing this one out there as I know a lot of "urbex teams" have been rushing that way recently. By 1980 COD Donnington (along with COD Bicester) was one of just two remaining Central Ordnance Depots overseen by the Royal Army Ordnance Corps; nevertheless, in the 1970s and...

This report is a re-visit of a past report. The first one being a copy and paste from Wikipedia because I was at the time, a lazy tit. This report has been written by me, with zero plagiarism. I have used multiple sources and tried to include as much information as possible. Hopefully you all...

History of the Royal Navy Diving & Animal Testing Facility The Ministry of Defence is considering abandoning deep-diving experiments which induce agonising decompression sickness in live goats after complaints from animal rights groups. Live testing was suspended in March 2007 and a review...

G.P.S.S. (MOD) Fuel Storage Depot, Gloucester - October 2020 So a couple of weeks ago; myself and @mookster made a leisurely journey down to Gloucester after a quick stop off to Go Outdoors so that I could buy myself a pair of wellies for this one! I had been warned; but alas I forgot. The...

Plenty of reports on this but I never tire of seeing them so here’s mine. Used as a mock airfield for nearby RAF Spadeadam, this place was an absolute bastard to get to and possibly the only time you’re guaranteed to get a girl wet by showing her abandoned cold war airplanes. So much of a...

Big, massive hat-tip to @Grom for spotting this place. I'm sure he'll explain how it happened in more detail later but it was somewhat of an unexpected accidental discovery on his part. A few days after he sent me some photos of it, we had arranged a trip along with @Lord Oort @Fluffy and a...

Hello guys. First time poster here not a massively interesting one but I was passing through the area so thought it was worth a look. Its taken me ages to get this posted as the whole reason I visited this site was to test out some 35mm film which I didn't get developed for while. The...

I know this has been done a million times, but it’s the first time I’ve personally visited the airfield. It was so great to see some of the aircraft up close again! I was brought up in a military family so I was very use to being in and around air craft from a young age. My father even used to...

Hadleigh was a strategically important site for defense if Invasion from Germany ever occurred during WW2. Located in the Brett Valley, it was nicknamed 'Hadleigh Hole' by locals as entering it from any angle was a decline, thus being vulnerable to total surrounding. A Munitions Workshop, Camp &...