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Église du Très-Saint-Sacrement, (Church of the Blessed Sacrament) also known as the former Convent of the Récollets, The church was once part of a convent for the Récollets order. The building was officially desacralized and sold by the parish in 2013. For a period, it was reportedly offered...

I love this story. Very proud of those involved.

Having not seen a report on this place since 2010, it sat for years as a pin to check whenever I was in the area, assuming it had likely been buried by the landowner or converted into some kind of storage. But when passing by with @GRONK to check out a nearby morgue, we were pleasantly surprised...

The History The Mortuary In 1866 the Sanitary Act was passed, allowing local authorities to build mortuaries to improve the conditions and treatment of the dead across London. They weren’t popular though. By 1875 the British Medical Journal reported that out of 21 districts, only 9 had taken...

This was the first of a few explores while on a recent trip to the Rhine Valley. The building was originally constructed in 1953 as a youth home and conference centre by the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach. In 1986 Klaus Ullenbruch, a taxidermist and biologist from the unversity Konig in Bonn...

Carreau Wendel Colliery As another Euro trip looms its time to share one from the last trip & what a nice place it is. On this recent trip with my lad we decided to visit the Carreau Wendel Museum after of course visiting the frequented nearby Puits simon its a decent museum but only...

History This former colliery was originally sunk in the 1920's under the Llwynonn Colliery Company and, after its takeover by the Amalgamated Anthracite Combine in 1926, finally succeeded in producing its first coal in 1930 from shafts drilled through hard Blue Pennant sandstone. The mine...

The Royal Marines Museum in Eastney (part of Southsea, Portsmouth) has been closed for some time now. Over the years, there have been several proposals to convert the site into a five-star hotel, with developers claiming the plans would benefit the local community. Despite this, planning...

The Wynne slate mine is located on the immediate east side of Glyn Ceiriog, on the north side of Quarry Road. It was originally a hillside working dating from about 1770 and was further developed in the 1870s with underground workings developed in about 1890. In 1898 the quarry employed 64 men...

Kells Transport "museum" was a private collection of upto 350+ vehicles. I insert quotations around the word museum as I think it was only ever really that in the mind of the owner and maybe some of the bus manaics. Mostly consisting of unrestored Buses and Coaches in varying states of...

The kells transport museum aka the bus graveyard of cork was, at one stage, the largest privately owned collection of buses and coaches in the whole of the UK. It was intended to be a huge outdoor museum that looked at the history of transport throughout Ireland but it never happened. The owner...

Kell's Transport Museum The museum is located about 1.5km west of Knockraha and about 10km north east of the centre of Cork itself. Opened in 2004, the collection consists largely of unrestored buses stored in the open air, some dating as far back as 1948. As of 2008, with 354 buses in the...

Majestic Cinema AKA ‘The Haunted Museum Some history lifted from Cinema Treasures In 2018 the former cinema had a new lease of life as the ‘Haunted Museum’ but due to the deteriorating condition of the building it moved to a new home in the basement of Hopkinsons, Station Street in...

Visited as a part of a twice-weekly photography tour. I'd looked at this 3 years ago in 2018 knowing that whilst it was derelict it was still full of stored locos and coaching stock. Unfortunately as soon as I appeared at the gates the guards waved no at me. Walking round revealed ways in, only...

Have been watching the secret vault on YT fro a while - but how he reacted to getting caught in the act by security at this museum put me off his channel somewhat. https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/hovercraft-museum-lee-solent-broken-urban-explorers-2963815