Well last weekend I finally decided to get off my arse and start having a look around some of our local sites. Priddys Hard is literally on my door step so I called up 2 of my friends who we shall call Jonny and Alex (because that's their names...) and after building up their interest we decided we'd have a look around. The photographs in this report were all taken by Jonny as he is a much better photographer than I, and did suffer a little due to the failing light - we decided to do it now rather than wait till we've got some better equipment (plus he forgot his tripod!).
A little history about the site can be found here:
http://www.priddyshard.com/history.htm
We made our way there and got access pretty easily, and saw no security the whole time we were there. We got just over 40 pictures in all, but I've just bunged in my favourite in this report, the rest can be found on my photobucket.
So in chronological order...
The obligatory group shot. This was taken next to some old munitions storage buildings I can see on google earth, but which have sadly now been flattened and are being turned into apartments as we speak.
This building was pitch black and utterly infested with spiders - our best guess is it was some kind of shelter since the walls and roof are pretty thick, and the brackets along the walls look like they are meant for benches.
This room was a bit more odd. It has coat hooks all round the outside, and then what appeared at first to be a water pipe. However upon closer inspection it became apparent that once the pipe drops down, it goes nowhere expect back to itself. So of course that means it's doubtful that it's for heating or similar. Anybody who has an idea, we'd be grateful to find out!
This pic was taken outside one of the harder to reach buildings up near what I believe is an engine shed - we had to drop down quite far to get to it but the chavs have already made their way there, we found signs of a fire and empty beer cans here, as well as graffiti. It's a nice pic though.
Here we have conclusive proof of the Priddys Hard ghost, I always knew it was real
And finally, this is a shot of two of us on a bridge that runs over the top of the suspended roadway (I believe it was a narrow gauge tram to take munitions to the storage buildings)
Another slightly odd thing we saw was a large tunnel that seems to disappear under the housing estate, but it's all been backfilled and covered with mesh. We intend to go back at some point in the near future as we covered only a small part of the site this time round before it was too dark and hopefully will get a look at a few of the larger buildings on the site. This time the other two will also be wearing boots and long sleeves rather than trainers and t-shirts
Any criticism, praise, advice, or info about the site is more than welcome.
A little history about the site can be found here:
http://www.priddyshard.com/history.htm
We made our way there and got access pretty easily, and saw no security the whole time we were there. We got just over 40 pictures in all, but I've just bunged in my favourite in this report, the rest can be found on my photobucket.
So in chronological order...
The obligatory group shot. This was taken next to some old munitions storage buildings I can see on google earth, but which have sadly now been flattened and are being turned into apartments as we speak.
This building was pitch black and utterly infested with spiders - our best guess is it was some kind of shelter since the walls and roof are pretty thick, and the brackets along the walls look like they are meant for benches.
This room was a bit more odd. It has coat hooks all round the outside, and then what appeared at first to be a water pipe. However upon closer inspection it became apparent that once the pipe drops down, it goes nowhere expect back to itself. So of course that means it's doubtful that it's for heating or similar. Anybody who has an idea, we'd be grateful to find out!
This pic was taken outside one of the harder to reach buildings up near what I believe is an engine shed - we had to drop down quite far to get to it but the chavs have already made their way there, we found signs of a fire and empty beer cans here, as well as graffiti. It's a nice pic though.
Here we have conclusive proof of the Priddys Hard ghost, I always knew it was real
And finally, this is a shot of two of us on a bridge that runs over the top of the suspended roadway (I believe it was a narrow gauge tram to take munitions to the storage buildings)
Another slightly odd thing we saw was a large tunnel that seems to disappear under the housing estate, but it's all been backfilled and covered with mesh. We intend to go back at some point in the near future as we covered only a small part of the site this time round before it was too dark and hopefully will get a look at a few of the larger buildings on the site. This time the other two will also be wearing boots and long sleeves rather than trainers and t-shirts
Any criticism, praise, advice, or info about the site is more than welcome.
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