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Hello, I'm somewhat new in urbexing in number of actual places I've been into. I'm around Tyne and wear in the north east and looking for anyone else interested to urbex with me as I don't know many people with the same interest. I've collected tons of places but haven't had the chance to bring...

This is Ghetto Golf in Byker (newcastle) opened in 2019 and closed in June 2026. The company's reason for closing was that the venue was unsustainable, they also changed company name from Ghetto Golf to Golf Fang, and continue to run a number of venues around the country. On to the explore, I...

History: Closehouse obseravtory were part of a complex built by Newcastle University in the 1960s and was a well used complex up untill the sale of Closehouse around 20 Years ago. Surprisingly the biggest and most impressive telescope was left on site, a 1917 24 inch telescope built by Calver...

This is Nestle Chocolate factory in Fawdon in Newcastle, But it started out as Rowntree's in 1958 at a cost of £2million pounds and employed upto 1,500 people at its peak, making fruit pastilles and fruit gums. In 1988 it was taken over by Nestle where they started the production of Chocolate...

This is the old Evening Chronicle headquarters in Newcastle. It was opened in 1965 by the then prime minister Harold Wilson, and they operated the Evening Chronicle, the Journal, and the Sunday Sun from these offices. It closed in 2018 as they moved to more modern premises. What an explore this...

A grade 2 listed Victorian/Edwardian Landmark in the city of Newcastle Upon Tyne. It opened in April 1907 and is one of the only surviving public bath houses left in Britain. It was used as a swimming facility and public bath house until 1965 when the pool was boarded over and it served as a...

The History Wangi Wangi Power Station is a former coal power station located in the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales about 2-3 hours north of Sydney or 45 minutes from Newcastle. Beginning construction in 1949, it saw a thousand workers camped on-site during its construction (to...

Heading newcastle way for the weekend looking for any recommendations Cheers

Went urbexing for the first time in Jesmond with a few mates, easy to get into big open door and fence. I understand its a recent site as it only shut down after covid but its completely in ruin. Ironically shut down because its hard to maintain. Squatters seem to like it found a whopping 25...

This one had been on my bucket list for a while but being on the opposite side of the country to me it took a while to get around to doing. I know there have been some reports done on it before but since the last was a few years ago i figured it might be of interest with a report from 2025...

Closehouse Observatory This place has stayed off the radar pretty well, I first noticed it on Instagram a few months ago and assumed it would have been flavour of the month, like a similar observatory in Kent was a few years back, but this one never really took off. Me and @dais stopped in on...

October 2024 Visited with @raisinwing, Deakin's Yard (aka, Sky Building) sits on the site that was once home to the Jubilee Swimming Pool which was demolished in 2015, the facility was a standard council run leisure centre with a pool, gym and fitness studios. The building was replaced with a...

Hi I'm looking for some suggestions for site in or around Newcastle. Above or below ground. Doing my own research also but if anyone has spots they're happy to pass on it would be much appreciated

Hi! Looking for people in the North East / Northumberland / Newcastle / Berwick. I have extensive experience and knowledge of abandoned mines in the North of England. Looking for people who are interested in exploring abandoned mines, especially if you’ve not had the opportunity to do it...

Didn't get into the A&E or morgue but managed to get into the diabetes centre. Not going to put any history as this has been done a few times by other member. We set off about 1am and walked around the site and found the fence had been pushed open so we hoped thro and climbed thro a open...