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Huge, mint nuclear bunker deep under Norfolk. The powers on, lets go take a look.... |
Small derpy farmhouse. Absolute tip, but some nice details. |
Varies adventures along the Victoria Line under London. |
Transport for London have just sold their HQ for development into luxury flats. So I thought this was the perfect time to go for a mooch, and check out the view from the roof. |
Britians most secretive site during WW2, home of the code breakers. UrbanX decides to visit the non-public areas of the site to see what personal records have been left behind... |
Flying visit to a small derpy cottage full of junk |
8 Years after being apprehended here I return to successfully document: Control Tower, Hangers, Gas Decontamination, Boiler houses, Admin blocks, & Dining rooms! |
Beautifully opulent Officers mess. Unfortunately I did slice my hand open on the way in... |
Once used to house the Blue Steel Nuclear Missiles. As we now keep most of our nukes on subs, I thought I'd have a wander round... |
Large Victorian farmhouse, now abandoned and left to rot. |
This Grade 2 listed mill is 175 years old today, so I thought I'd pay it a birthday visit. |
In all my years I've never been in such a flimsy building. I've only uploaded this because of how much it made me laugh! |
One of a few surviving Nuclear launch units on the planet. This is where the end of the world could have came from... |
Hardened structure for the decontamination of persons affected by chemical, biological, or nuclear attack. Abandoned in 1994, although you wouldn’t think it, its virtually mint inside. |
Just a quickie. This is only a small building, so there aren’t many photo’s. But due to its significance I’ve decided to post it. |
This is a Hardened Aircraft Shelter (HAS), which housed F-111’s fighters throughout the cold war, and the Gulf war. |
To accommodate pilots and their engineers close to their aircraft. It was part of a ‘rapid response unit’ to guard us against the Ruskies during the cold war. |
Hardened shelter for the testing and training of pilots in the art of dropping nuclear payloads. |
UrbanX travels to The Arctic to visit an abandoned fishing village |
A warm family home, full of family photos, sadly left to rot. |
A man obsessed with railways unexpectedly abandons his railway side house. |
Deep in the fens, a small cottage awaits. Just don't bump into Mary... |
Old manorhouse, handed down through generations, now left to rot. |
£1m mansion raided as it was being used as a cannabis farm, now just left abandoned. |
Londons deepest tunnel hides a huge WW2 shelter for 8,000 people |
I’ve been exploring areas like this for years now. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen an area as secure as this... |
I found a map that showed Charing Cross on the Jubilee Line. Except it's not on the Jubilee Line... There must be hidden platforms... |
All the times I've taken the piss out of bands doing shoots in derps...Today was my turn! |
Massive steelworks: This huge site closed three years ago and has just been silent since. |
(Former) President Victor Yanukovych fled his Palace in February following the EuroMaidan uprising. UrbanX took a plane straight over there to see if he could get in... |
Care home abandoned 20 years ago left to naturally decay. |
Beautiful monastery with the power still on! |
This is the university side to the Schola Monastic Chapel. Mint condition, power on. |
Whilst looking for another site, UrbanX discovers this Post Modern Gothic masterpiece! |
UrbanX spots a building overlooking Kortrijks main attraction. So scales it to the roof with a bottle of fine wine. |
Beautiful maison slowly rotting away in the woods. |
Derelict Train sidings, with an underground secret... |
Derelict, trashed hospital, but a cracking rooftop! |
Derelict dentists practice within a Chateau. |
Once upon a time the King had his own private railway station in the middle of the woods near his hunting lodge. Guess what... it's still there. |
I cant keep away! It's always a pleasure to stand on a tube platform alone, and in silence! I saw quite a few more bits including accessing the lift shafts themselves. |
Immaculate abandoned manor house. The lights are on, but is anyone home? |
Trashed, but a morgue's a morgue! |
RAF / USAF Airbase, nearly mint condition after the last troops left. |
I always had a romantic idea of skulking around Westminster on Guy Fawkes night before scaling a building to take in the fireworks... |
Following on from report 176. I take another visit to walk through the in depth history, and finer details of Bunker B. |
Beautiful 18th Century brewery shut its years over 20 years ago. Listed, but falling into disrepair. |
Deep in the wilds of Suffolk. Three listed farm workers cottages. |
Beneath a shed in an unassuming field lies one of the countries largest Nuclear Bunkers! Come take a look with me! |
One rainy night we discover an endless tunnel system beneath our city. |
Built late 80's in the cold war, out of use in the mid 90's. Power still on... |
Derelict Manor. Probably more inspiring outside than in! |
Disused London Underground Station |
I saw some big blue letters on top of a 16 storey hotel. I wonder if I can climb up to them? |
Pretending to be a pizza boy, then a 36 storey free climb up to the crown! |
Under construction 31 Storey climb in the centre of Kiev. |
During the 2014 Ukraine conflict. |
Absolutely fresh Monastic complex. Abandoned so recently the power was still on! |
With nearly 300 explores now under my belt, this was the best preserved place I've ever been to! I kept expecting the previous occupants to come back at any minute! |
Beautiful old decaying shell of a 'Kasteel' |
Not many times have people been known to try scaling walls to get INTO prison, but hey, I'm not everyone. |
Beautifully mint former doctors house / treatment centre. No signs of trashing at all. |
A couple of years after my first visit and I was passing so thought it'd b e rude not to pop in! |
Netherlands. Location of some controversial infant euthanasia's. visited during demolition. |
Previous Doctors residence, some bits trashed, some bits in good condition |
31 Storey Tower Climb - Central London |
Formally "The Sewing House" but as all of the sewing machines have been stolen I've renamed it! |
A sweet little derelict church nestled in the British countryside. |
Derelict Window, door and stair manufacturer |
Beautifully decayed military hospital, patrolled by vigilant Gurkha's. |
A midnight foray into the world beneath our city |
What a crazy year it's been! UrbanX has travelled the globe - 7 trips abroad from scaling a 925ft skyscraper in East Asia, to midnight sun in the Arctic Circle. |
Over 30 explorers descending upon Severalls all dressed as Santa! What could go wrong? |
Small abandoned chapel in Cambridgeshire |
Freshly closed hospital. Absolutely mint. Playing cat and mouse with the security paid off. |
It's been 11 months since his last visit, so UrbanX takes the 1,100 mile journey to check on this mint Chateau. |
Coal washing facility undergoing refurbishment becomes UrbanXs playground for the day! |
The last time UrbanX visited here he got was caught with 30 seconds of entering the site. Now he's back to settle the score... |
Swimming Pool with a funky domed roof! |
Apparently this was the court that inspired the courtroom in Wind in The Willows. Couldn’t tell you - I’ve never read it. |
UrbanX takes the new GoPro Hero 3 head cam for a spin round the old fort. |
House on a hill. Trashed, but not damaged - a lot of memories left behind. |
The hotel that was never finished. With an escaped Cat. A prisoner on the run nearby, this was going to be a fun one. |
Gloucester Tourist board often boasts about the historic quais - UrbanX decides to look a little further. |
We take a 600Km spike out of our way to visit this 'mint' hospital. |
This is one of them "wow, I can't believe places like this still exist" explores... |
Abandoned Military Graveyard |
Old abandoned tannery...maybe not entirely abandoned? |
Abandoned home of an eccentric electrical engineer. |
Just a small abandoned farmstead. The sign outside declares that the resident is inside, dare we go in? |
On a roll, here's another cooling tower! |
An abandoned powerstation in Europe. On a whistlestop tour UrbanX visits the cooling towers. |
Old mine from 1884, closed in 1976. |
UrbanX revisits this site in the Summer to discover all the bits he missed in the snow! |
Could an urban legend of a abandoned Chateau in the woods stocked full of wine be true? UrbanX goes to find out... |
Busted in a beautiful old hospital / chapel |
Only a few hours left until I have to catch a flight from Berlin, still time to explore this massive barracks! |
Iconic Powerstation on the banks of the Thames in central London - lets go climbing! |
Site of the the massive propaganda campaign by the Nazis still exists in a village in East Berlin. |
Derelict railway yard and half roundhouse - Germany |
A humble farmhouse just walked out of. Out of date food in the fridge, teapot on the side, live ammunition on the table... |
A leviathan of a gothic mill in Europe. It has claimed the lives of seven people since its been derelict, so lets have a careful climb up to the top... |
Abandoned house in the woods. |
With the owner VERY recently deceased it's just been left exactly as it was. A sad glimpse into an extinguished life, with a twist at the end. |
A beautiful, yet massive school, in Belgium undergoing restoration. UrbanX dodges the builders to sneak in and take some photos... |
Abandoned hospital in Belgium, still full of beds, wheelchairs,x-rays, paperwork and lots of needles. |
A boring office block, with the most unexpected staircase! |
Someone recently went through the first floor, killing themselves instantly. UrbanX takes a climb to the 7th floor to take in the view. |
With the lights on, and toilets flushing this was going to be a fun one... |
Abandoned brickworks, Kent. |
UrbanX is an urban explorer. He gets to places he shouldn't be to photograph them. Today will be the cockpit of a 747-200 parked up at a live airport. |
I visit the administrative centre of this busy coal mine. |
Beautiful Victorian school, about to be demolished. We managed to arouse the suspicions of the local constabulary just taking photos of the place. |
An beautiful old grammar school for the sons of the most predominant freemasons. |
We try our most audacious access yet, closing off a portion of city centre to descend 40m below the surface... |
It's only been a couple of months, but how things have changed... |
A whole weekend of driving for this one gem. Totally worth it. |
An eccentric old potters cottage / workshop in Belgium |
Stunning Gothic building. Just breathtaking. |
A daring inpromptu climb in the middle of the night while passing through. ...Coming Soon |
UrbanX attempts to scale a building in Westminster on Guy Fawkes night... He failed. Only just. But managed to get on some other rooftops to watch some fireworks. |
"Couldn't organise an explore in a brewery" - actually we did! |
Abandoned Soviet Airfield & Barracks in Germany. |
Giant factory, with a hobbit feel... |
Massive barracks, owned by the Germans for WW2, then the Russians for the Cold War... |
Beautiful Sanatorium rotting away in Germany |
Sanatorium offering stunning views, and fun climbs... |
Beautiful old sanatorium rotting away in the German countryside |
Hospital / Hostel in Germany |
Massive Sanatorium, once housed Adolf Hitler... |
Stevenage always looks better in the dark, so UrbanX takes a midnight climb up to the roofs. |
Another beautiful chateau deep in France, just walked out of... |
It's been half a decade, time to pay the ol' girl a visit |
Shell of an abandoned sanitorium deep in the forests of France |
Any guesses where UrbanX celebrated his 30th birthday? |
Beautiful gothic school |
Beautiful Manor, just asat by the side of the road. |
The explore that nearly didn't happen! Beautiful crystal factory, just walked out of. |
Beautiful Belgium Manor House: |
UrbanX takes on a bautiful Chateau, and the most daring free climb up the outside of he building. |
One of the big ones. New CCTV system, and security patrols: But I still out-vexed them to explore this beautiful old place. |
Asylum in Lincolnshire. Abandoned, and stripped. |
Old maltings, the buildigs got boring, so I climbed the 200ft tower instead! |
Extremely recently abandoned nursery. |
Yet another beautiful manor house crumbing away in the Lincolnshire countryside. |
UrbanX loves a dance, so found himself a recently abandoned nightclub. |
"Avon Calling" Disused warehouse, attached to the live office. With 1,000 workers on site, UrbanX strolls in... |
Just a singular space, but beautiful light. |
Trashed plastics factory. Security sat on front gate. So we just tip-toed around him to explore the site. |
Beautiful manor going to ruin following a fire in 2001 |
Recently abandonned under the government scheme to reduce the number of courts. Gotta be worth a climb hasn't it? |
Derelict factory cum Drugs den. |
Derelict warehouses. Nice Light. 50ft Cock. |
Looks like a normal tumbledown derelict cottage, but inside is a time capsule from a century ago. |
Spotted on a Google map in the Crimea, had to go for a mooch... |
Unfinished HQ for the Soviet nuclear fleet. High up in the Crimean mountains, now owned and run by the Russian Mafia. Visited by UrbanX in 2010, he decideds to re-visit |
1,955km from Chernobyl, UrbanX starts trekking across the Ukraine, not sure if it would still even be there... |
Amazing cache of all the MoD electronic components... |
Infiltration of a live Radio Telescope site |
14,000 Scrap cars from the government scrapage scheme, and some peely paint! |
90Km of crumbling tunnels under Wiltshire you say? See you there! |
UrbanX goes exploring with a BBC crew from Radio 4... |
Trashed, and occupied by squatters. See you in there. |
Rooftopping in the middle of the night: Filming location for Life on Mars, Countless music videos. |
In ur fridgez, and on ur slabz |
Re-visit to Corah works, to rooftop the place...dressed as Santa Claus... |
"Couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery" - so how about an explore instead? |
Factory producing needles for the Corah Hoisery Factory. Demolition crew on site... |
The original Nazi concentration camp, now laying semi-derelict |
UrbanX infiltrates Londons most expensive hotel, with the Royal suite costing a cool £10k per night. |
Under the lawn of a beautiful period mansion lies the pumping station to the near by reservoir. |
Semi Live Clothing manufacturer |
Beautiful listed shoe factory from 1891 |
Network of military tunnels under the city of Dover... |
Underground oil storage facility - Dover |
Beautiful hospital bBuilt in 1846, recently walked out of...although still semi-live. |
It's a...erm...deep shelter... |
Beautiful large house, in a mixture of styles, absolutely stunning interiors. |
Privately owned railway station, and some old trains... |
I was passing the London Defence Scheme, so would be rude not to pop in again.... |
Reputedly the most haunted church in Britain, but more importantly derelict. |
London Defence Scheme - Main Armoury... |
A house with "Derelict House For Sale" out the front, who could resist? |
Period home on the market for £2m. UrbanX dodges the estate agents to have a look inside... |
Part live. Still a lot of active security.UrbanX outruns them to make his was onto the roof... |
Part derelict, part live.... |
Where vintage cars go to die |
A five storey climb up the side of a 180 year old mill in Norfolk. |
Beautiful Norfolk Asylum, History & Externals |
Derelict Asylum in Northampton, currently undergoing conversion. Turns out we were not alone in there... |
College in Kettering - one day 8,500 students walked out... |
Weekend retreat for Cambridgeshire pigeons |
Infiltration to a mint condition rehab. |
Has been waiting 44 years for a train |
Beautiful Suffolk Manor House - bombed during WW2 |
Semi Live - Medium Secure Unit |
Atomic Weapons Research Establishment off the coast of Suffolk |
Cambridges oldest building. Semi-abandoned. |
Manor House, and former Railway yard. |
"Death trap" in Norfolk |
Recycling Facility, and associated houses / offices. |
Massive Poultry farm & associated houses & offices. |
One Asylum, One Murderous, possessed chair... ...Where else would UrbanX get married? |
Shooting a Music Video at a recently abandonned Manor House |
Nuclear Bomb Stores and Top Secret Photographic DepartmentStstus: Semi-live |
WWII Radar Station on the Isle of Wight |
1,001 Abandonned homes |
Summer shots vs Winter shots |
When they left, they left the door open... |
Mission: To climb to the top of the siloOutcome: Caught and detained |
Documentary. Spending time occupying an art-deco cinema in the centre of Cambridge. |
Missile Training Facility - North Norfolk. Outcome: Caught and detained |
Animal Testing Facility - HuntingdonAvian, poultry, and mammal subjects Outcome: Caught and detained |
A beautiful Jacobean mansion, burnt to the ground by it's eccentric millionaire owner! |
Derelict Houses and stables in historic Newmarket |
Let me show you the world that exists beneath your feet |
Soviet Black Sea Nuclear Fleet HQNow Russian Mafia owned and run tunnel system Southern Ukraine |
Two 40m deep Nuclear missiles, that could have ended civilisation |
Nuclear Submarine base, and off-limits military tunnels deep under the Ukraine |
Not an Urbex report, but transport adventure between them |
A trip to the most radioactive place on earth... |
If I said we jumped the fence then got INTO the tanks, would you believe me? |
Edwardian Lunatic Asylum. Part-live 1,800 Patients... |
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