The Death Trap thread

[Grom]

Post your favourite death traps. I'll start with one I took this morning. Very rotten wood and a 3 story drop.

 

[raisinwing]

St George's in Stafford got pretty interesting towards the end:

 

[Down and beyond]

Slate mine 5 more steps 120ft drop

beauty of a collapse in stone mine up and over time lads

 

[mookster]

I have a few favourite death traps - curiously most of them appear to be hospitals

Westborough State Hospital in the USA, now sadly all demolished. Imagine 2011 Denbigh levels of sketchy floors but instead of being able to see a lot of the rotten areas they were all covered with a top layer of floor tiles that hid a lot of the rot. So as well as having to avoid the obviously rotten parts you had to watch every single step you took on the parts that didn't look bad!

Hawick Cottage Hospital, probably the single most rotten building I've ever stepped foot inside of. It had wet rot, it had dry rot, there was no part of the building that felt structurally sound.

Brownsville General Hospital near Pittsburgh, a place I had wanted to see for years. I will let the photos speak for themselves :

Paramount Theater in New Jersey, empty for the best part of five decades and another place where it felt like every step you took could kill you.

And the last one that springs to mind immediately is the Old Rectory Care Home in Rampton, when I first visited it five years ago it was getting seriously bad, the whole building was already severely structurally unstable. It's difficult to believe that the place is still there, but getting upstairs as of 2020 is now nigh on impossible as all the landings have collapsed.

I'm sure I'll be able to think of more, I have a penchant for death traps it would seem!

 

[Mondeo]

Hoarders House Southport.

Everywhere you tried to step felt as though there was at least a foot of crap underneath you.

Taxal Lodge Derbyshire.

Some parts had the roof on the ground floor and all the wooden staircases were loose and falling apart.

 

[Bristol-Wanderer]

Don’t look to bad, but trust it’s pretty dam high I didn’t fancy walking up there one slip and I’d break my neck lol

 

[alex17595]

Parc Lead mine

And Conglog Slate mine

 

[MotionlessMike]

There's been a few 'I don't want to die in a derelict building moments' including Stone Galleon in Digbeth...

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[HughieD]

One place that springs to mind and earlier nominated by @mookster, here is the Rectory care home near Cambridge:

By the looks of the outer walls, this place could collapse at any moment:

Earlier mentioned by @Mondeo - agreed, Taxal Lodge is a little bit sketchy too:

And an honourary mention to Don Saw Mills Sheffield (yes, I made that hole):

 

[pirate]

Groverake fluorspar mine...........so dodgy I didn’t even get my camera out

 

[stranton]

no photographs, but conditioning house, Bradford & carlton cinema, Liverpool.

 

[Shaun]

Edenfield Mill

birkdale deaf school(Now demod)

Rock Nook Mill

Toxteth welsh church
Honourable Mention to the Big hole at Glenthorne

Another shoutout is to the big Hole in the floot at the casino/bingo hall in southport, can only imagine its bigger now days.

 

[mookster]

Whilst I'm here, Causeway Lodge in Thorney is probably the only building I've seen that was more structurally unsound than the Old Rectory Care Home. It's also one of the only buildings I've refused to even entertain stepping foot into, when I popped in on the way to something else last year it looked as if a strong breeze would make it fall over. The grounds were all cleared so I assumed it was going to be flattened at some point soon, however the ridiculous issues underground that led to it being in the state it is would need some serious work to put right!

For reference that is a concrete floor in the last photo that has sunk into the ground, it's as if the foundations were laid on quicksand.

 

[tarkovsky]

haha! The thread made me think of this place straight away @mookster

Here’s a pic from a while before...

 

[Giymo85]

As both @mookster and @HughieD have already stated, the Old Rectory Care Home in Rampton was and continues to be an utter state. Been there three times in three years and every time I expect to find it completely collapsed.

In my first visit I was able to cross the upstairs landing to get to the front bedrooms but you can see that these days that is totally impossible.