southern

Following on from an earlier solo explore to Coulsdon, I was in good spirits and looking forward to seeing this little gem. As with my earlier venture, all previous photos had been lost so was eager to get some new ones for my collection. Now, unlike Coulsdon, I wasn't 100% sure where best to...

1. The History Perched on 2,000 foot cliff overlooking the Bianco River valley, Romagnano al Monte is an abandoned village located in the Campania region of southern Italy. The village was destroyed in 1980 by the Irpinia earthquake forcing the 370 or so inhabitants to abandon Romagnano and...

I feel it's about time to reel out one of the big ones, and this was perhaps the biggest one of them all - as well as being the place I was most looking forward to seeing. The hospital is pretty well known within the exploring community over there, but it's location in the deep, deep south means...

A bit of a jump and a change of pace away from churches and Detroit whilst I work out how to post other stuff in the best way possible. During this trip I finally got to spend some time in the deep south like I had wanted to for years. When I had originally planned my ill-fated 2020 trip I had...

During World War 2, the Southern Railway took over the Deepdene Hotel near Dorking in Surrey for its wartime emergency headquarters. In the grounds they excavated an underground control centre taking advantage of a network of existing natural caves that had been acknowledged 300 years before in...

The Citadel’s Southern Defences and Tenaille - Short Casemates and Long Casemates So what started as something seemingly quite easy myself and @The Wickerman had unknowingly embarked on what would become a 5 year long project of quite honestly the most physically and mentally demanding...

Initially this morning I had plans to do some university revision and exploring was my last thought, but I received a message regarding the Gillingham war bunker was open. Confused, I searched online regarding posts about it and found nothing as it appears the entrance for that specific bunker...

River Effra (Sewer) - A Decade Of Southern Division Associated Drainage, London 2010 -2019. Well, there's unquestionably more to everybody's favourite tourist drain 'RUBIX' which is essentially a storm relief which serves the Effra and is typically a very small piece in a fairly widespread...

History (shamelessly 'borrowed' from Subbrit.org.uk) During World War 2, the Southern Railway took over the Deepdene Hotel near Dorking in Surrey for its wartime emergency headquarters. In the grounds they excavated an underground control centre taking advantage of a network of existing natural...

Visited with Tallginge Crypt is a rather grand junction chamber where the Wimbledon Park Sewer and the Southern High Level Sewer #1 converge in Wandsworth. The reason for such an ornate chamber is that Crypt was originally the start of the west end of Joseph Bazalgette’s sewage aqueduct in...

Hello, Been a while since my last report! I've been doing lots of exploring though, just need to find the time to write up the reports. This one was a random one because we were in the area and saw someone elses report on it, so decided to hit it up. History As usual, i tend to post links for...

Deepdene - WW2 Southern Railway Traffic Control Centre was visited many many times but for these who haven't seen or heard about it...(just in case!) History: what we know about it originally emanated from a certain Mike Tyrell... During World War 2, the Southern Railway took over the Deepdene...

can find very little on this place however a nice little explore to stop off at in passing in a beautiful part of Ireland. all I could gather on this was that it was built sometime in the 18th century and that the stone mounted in the ground with a crucifix on it is the gravestone for the...

The bunker was built in the 1980s by the region’s water company, Southern Water, which built three underground emergency centres in order for them to be able to control Britain’s water supply in the event of a nuclear bomb attack. As history has already written, no nuclear attack occurred and...