south yorkshire

A small junkyard with over 200+ buses to explore. Located in cudworth- South Yorkshire. After a hell of a hike through fields and brambles I sought out this location as I’d seen it recommended by another popular urban explorer. There’s a variety of different buses, coaches, diggers and overall...

Introduction One of a few military sites me and @Wastelandr visited on a 3-day trip to the Lincolnshire area recently. The entire weekend was extremely wet and windy due to Storm Darragh. The Art-Deco design of this control tower appealed to us after seeing a recent post on FB. It’s pretty...

1. The History Hatfield Main Colliery is located one mile north-west of the village of the same name, on the South Yorkshire Coalfield, where it mined the High Hazel coal seam. It is noteworthy as being one of the UK's last remaining deep seam mines when it finally closed in 2015, just shy of a...

Background: Opened over 30 years ago in the Walkley area of Sheffield, The Baker's Shop closed in November 2023 after a serving the community for a significant amount of time. The Bakers Shop was inside the old Yorkshire Bank building on Howard Road, Walkley, and opened in the 1990s...

1. The History Located in Badger Wood, close to Hood Green, near Barnsley, Wentworth Silkstone mine first opened in June 1911 under the ownership of Wentworth Silkstone Collieries Ltd. Previously coal had been extracted from the site through Coopers Wentworth pit when shafts were sunk in 1856 to...

1. The History Megatron is the name given to the culverted section of the River Sheaf that runs from Granville Square to the River Don. The river was culverted in the 1860s by the Midland Railway Company who gained Parliamentary consent to build their new station over the river. After months of...

I saw this on the local rag online the day it closed and posted the lead to the fellahs, then promptly forgot about it for 3 weeks, when @Terminal Decline said he was popping up for the weekend. We had a recce but there was still a skeleton crew kicking about doing some banging. We found the...

Doncaster County Court Doncaster County Court was opened in 1936 and was originally a single-storey building incorporating two court rooms. At some point it had an upstairs bunged on top of the existing building to open up more space for offices and archive storage, meaning the building as it...

Introduction I first visited the site during summer last year but as I was in a rush I didn’t take the camera. This time though, I wanted to return with the camera and get a report up. Visited with @V50jake. Information & History I won’t go into the history in too much detail as it has been...

Didn't plan on heading North again until the Spring, but I heard this was wide open, so decided to make the trip... Found time 4 weeks later, and it had unfortunately been sealed back up tight... Well mostly ;) Doesn't appear that anybody has done a report on here before, so here goes! The...

Recently visited Kiveton park recycling centre. A lot has changed. No more conveyers only two tanks stand. Sorry for bad quality photos, I've had to screenshot from videos Only this left, standing where conveyers were Some dumped IBC's View from top of smaller silo

A mid-century secondary school which began life as ‘Intake High School’ and went through the standard multiple name changes and mergers with neighbouring schools over the years, before becoming Outwood Academy Danum. This school was one of a pair - the other live buildings further up the road...

History The recycling plant was erected in 2009 at a cost of £1.5m and incorporated a crushing and washing plant that separated, aggregated and cleaned stones, soil, and sand. Products included both fine and coarse sand along with 10mm, 20mm and 40mm aggregates. The plant operated until 2018...

1. The History The origins of Stones beer goes right back to 1847 when Joseph Watts of Dewsbury and William Stones (1827 -1894) of Sheffield began brewing together at the Cannon Brewery in Sheffield's Shalesmoor district. The name is most likely come from the nearby foundry that cast gun...

Doncaster College of Education was established in 1949 and occupied the site of High Melton Hall - a large country house built in 1757 – along with its 116 acres of grounds. The college officially opened in 1952 with an accommodation block opening the following year and further buildings being...