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History For decades, this building was a place of movement, noise, and routine. A community leisure centre in the truest sense — swimming lessons, school trips, early-morning lane swimmers, birthday parties, fitness classes, and families killing time on wet weekends. At its heart was the pool...

ROYAL HAMPSHIRE HOSPITAL THE HISTORY: I wish I could tell you more about this place, but even after relentlessly searching the internet I can find nothing to even report its closure, let alone what it was used for, so here’s what I can tell you: The Royal Hampshire Hospital is still in use...

Good day all, Finally have got round to posting my reports so here goes- This visit was on a glorious sunny Sept 2019 day so perfect for a little stroll around the old Southern water sewage treatment works in Winchester! This site was closed down and a new installation was set up nearby...

I moved away from Winchester years ago, and last heard (again!) this place was going. I always enjoyed it up there and will be sad to see it go. I finally managed to find a plan of the original site. Sorry it's a poor picture of a folded photocopy, but might help someone see what WAS there.

There are some rooms underneath the place I work on the high street in Winchester, we use them for storage but they are clearly very old. They all have very low ceilings and twisting, narrow passages between them. I know they spread under the highstreet as when you're down there you can hear...

Here goes my first post... Was tipped off that there was a location in Winchester with some abandoned vehicles. I had a quick look and it was easy enough to find, with just a wire fence separating it from a public footpath. I slipped under the gate and was in! These are the initial photos just...

Sup everyone, I'm new here so I hope I'm not posting in the wrong categories, but here goes. I have been scouring Winchester recently and have found numerous crane climbs that you can take a punt at. Climb 1: If you have been in or around Winchester, you will know of the big Tesco in Winnal...

“Firing Range at Bushfield Camp Looking into the open ends of two adjacent U-shaped brick walls having pits in front of them. Someone who trained as a National Serviceman at Bushfield Camp between 1951 and 1953 has confirmed that this was firing range. Bushfield Camp was an army training camp...

Since I’m relatively new to both exploring and the South of England (and had a sneaky Monday off work), I thought I’d attempt my first solo trip somewhere risk free and closish to home. If I was American I’d refer to it Exploring 101, but I’m not. So I won’t. The location of choice was...

After the first visit was a fail as some one had changed the locks a few weeks later I returned with the new key! A nice little explore, nothing of great intrest inside apart from the crazy amounts of wheely bins! The council use this as there stores on a daily basis and is locked up tight...

Heading out for the first roadtrip of the year accompanied by lesbub, citadelmonkey and minty447 the first stop on our 3 counties extravaganza was the former ROC Group 14 HQ at Winchester. Easy access to the site; climbed into the building through a window narrowly avoiding ripping my hands...

This has been on the local list for ages, finally got around to it today. Subbrit map reference is miles away, and god knows what they were taking pictures of :confused: Anyway, this is the correct place according to the planning permission on the gate, Grade 2 listed as well. It's going...