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November 2025 I visited this place with @Mr Budge during a weekday lunchtime. I know Goldenhill pretty well, and there are a few spots in the area I’ve been keeping an eye on for a while. Still, I’m slightly ashamed to admit that—even though this chapel sits barely 50 metres from another derp I...

The Explore. This one was a bit of a do I don't I type of place, I had my eye on this place as seen online it was closing down then just as it was closing they got rescued then a month later the workers where sent home and it closed< I was in the area and thought id go have a look not expecting...

July 2024 This one had been on the list for a very long time. I finally had the pleasure of ticking it off with @Mr Budge one summer evening last year. After easily finding our way into the vast grounds of the colliery, we made our way to the area where we believed the Underground Experience...

As I was being subjected to a day up Hanley I thought it best to make the most of a bad situation and try a few doors on a few of the many dilapidated buildings in this wonderful place. My main target was a none starter but this place looked promising. The History... Ringway House emerged...

History Hanley Town Hall in Albion Square , Hanley, is a grade 2 listed building designed by Robert Scrivner. The cost of building totalled £20,000 and it was officially opened in 1869 as the queens hotel. By the 1880s the company running the hotel ran into financial difficulties and the...

April 2025 I visited with @MotionlessMike and @raisinwing after a flop at a nearby pottery works, we had a quick mooch round but didn't really shoot anything at the time . The building was a strange blend of decay and restoration. Some areas, especially in the upper office sections, showed...

February 2025 Visited with @MotionlessMike, we stopped in at Wade after exploring a nearby drain. It was my first time visiting, despite several failed attempts around 2015/16. The site had completely slipped my mind even though it's only a 20-minute drive from my house. I've just bought a new...

Last week, I was sent a screenshot of a facebook post showing that, at long last, Weatherby was in fact under demolition. It felt like a heavy loss upon reflecting it... a building that has been embedded in the very heart of exploring in Stoke on Trent, the building that refused to die. Towards...

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...

March 2023 The Visit Exploring this place with @stranton and @coolboyslim was quite an adventure. To be honest, we didn't have any expectations beforehand. Growing up, I used to spend a lot of time in the Etruria and Hanley area, often visiting the nearby Festival Park. However, I never really...

So something a little different here, I have been working on a little project to drain a mine for a while. Unfortunately some idiots found the places, pasted it over youtube and tiktok and the council have now blocked it off. So I thought it's time to post a record of it and my little project...

Visited here one evening in june with @mingerocket & @MotionlessMike A hot chaffing walk in waders was in order to meet up with the others after ending up on the wrong side of the canal. The entrance to this culvert looked quite promising, tucked behind a corner of derelict wasteland the...

More than £20,000 worth of damage done and loads of windows broken on Sunday on buses being restored at Reliance Bus Works in Stoke on Trent.

J.H.Weatherby's Falcon Works Messrs. J H Weatherby & Sons established a small works at Tunstall in 1891. In the following year they moved to the larger Falcon Pottery at Hanley. Good quality earthenware tableware has been produced up to the present time. The marks include the initials J H...

Il spare you the spiel.. A copy cat report really but i did get a few photos of bits the others didn't put in their reports. Visited with @raisinwing after a heavy evening of stoke based beer. I should have been hanging and thoroughly not enjoying myself but how could you not enjoy this place...