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CARNEGIE LIBRARY Shipley, England March 2020 HISTORY Carnegie Library, on the corner of Leeds Road and Carr Lane, was built in 1905 after Andrew Carnegie, a world famous industrialist and philanthropist, donated £3,000 through his Carnegie Trust for the opening of a new library...

Shipley Zero Station, Sussex Myself and the Mutt had a free Sunday afternoon, the wife and kids were out and the weather was hot, hot, hot! We decided to finally visit Shipley Zero Station. Sadly this main chamber has completely collapsed bar the exit room, escape tunnel and entrance. It was...

If you didn't know this place burned down recently... Now looks like this...

I’d wanted to see the tramway for a while so after a brief stop there we went for a look at the cinema but it was pretty knackered, a non exploring mate of mine came with me so it was chilled out. The tramway was opened to the public on May 18th 1895 and is the oldest working cable tramway in...

Typical 1930's cinema, which has gone down hill recently with metal theft but was still well worth a visit. After it's days as a cinema Shipley Glen became a bingo hall and the circle was boxed off with a false ceiling, keeping it preserved with original paintwork, deco light fittings...

Visited with Kook. Click for more info.

Visited with Kook. I remember coming here as a kid, all of the funfair has been demolished, only the concrete bases still exist. The funfair closed on the 4/9/05, but the dodgems closed well before, from memory probably about 1995. For more info on the funfair click here...

Glenroyal Cinema - Shipley - West Yorkshire - August 2010 Visited with Host. Well, we got there eventually, after captain Sat Nav tried to send us to Leeds, we worked it out and turned up after another busy morning in your Mills. Well, trashed in parts, beatiful in others, smells bad and is...

Visited with Bugsuperstar, Squirrell911, Solomon and KooK. I've been slack at getting this one up and fear it may have been done to death. To be fair, I didn't think I had any decent shots whatsoever of this until I had a scan through last night and figured these would be worth uploading...

Visited with: Kitty, Bugsuperstar, Squirrell911 and KooK Not a bad explore this one, although the place is pretty trashed there is plenty of evidence of squatters having used it. I wont bore you with the history as it has been done plenty already. Found a number '8' spent ages looking for the...

Explored with Soloman, squirrell911, Bugsuperstar and Kitty. You can read a proper report here The Shipley Picture House Company (later to become Glenroyal Cinema Company) built this showpiece super-cinema, the 1200-seater Glenroyal in a prime position in Briggate and only a few yards away...

The Shipley picture house was designed by Ernest Dawson and built in 1932 to seat 1200 people. It later became known as the Glenroyal cinema, 30 years later it closed its doors. In 1963 it reopened as a Bingo hall/casino under the name The Glen casino, another name change in 1974 and closure...

I have driven past this place a few times feeling the need to explore this place and an opportunity arose so I was in. The Shipley Picture House Company (later to become Glenroyal Cinema Company) built this showpiece super-cinema in 1932, the 1200-seater Glenroyal in a prime position in...

Been looking at this cinema for ages and finally had an opportunity to take a look inside. The upper circle and projection room are just exactly like the day it closed. Theres a few lovely twin seats still in situ however as usual, bingo has destroyed the stalls area but the plasterwork still...

Glenroyal Cinema / Kings Bingo. Shipley. Yep another one! :p The latest place on the West Yorkshire UrbEx tourist trail. :) Ernie called me late one night and told me he was in here, so me and Mrs Converse1 made the trip to Shipley to have a looksie at the Old Glenroyal cinema. I first got in...