Urban Exploring Videos

I shot this video on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera
You can find the building on the a45 in Warwickshire.

 

I know many people are not too keen about videos on here and prefer pictures but I do love to make videos when I am exploring because it captures my raw reaction of what I am seeing. Anyways here's a video I made on the Purford Green Primary School and it would be very much appreciated if you checked it out.

 

Boys and girls!

We tried to show the Chernobyl zone from a bit different perspective. Production values are low, script was made on the spot and all was all fuelled by some amount of Ukrainian vodka, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

We have also visited not so widely known antenna array near the Russian Woodpecker. The actual antennas are all cut into pieces for scrap now but we were lucky to find a layer of ice in the otherwise inaccessible building basement, where the remains of the main control room can be found. (Second video)

The Circle radar array is believed to be a complementary system to the Duga radar and its main purpose was testing signal propagation the the ionosphere to optimise working frequency of the the Russian Woodpecker.

 

Hello everyone!

As you may know Earnley Education Centre has sparked new interest in the area of Chichester. I decided to take full advantage of this and take a trip with @Smidgey88 to explore it before the kids took over. And what can I say! it was much bigger and more interesting than I was expecting. If you have the chance to check it out please do, you won't regreat it at all.

We began our explore by parking in the carpark next door (Convenient) and then we began rolling the video! We started at 6:30pm and finished at 11:00pm. Never thought I would be in there that long! Without boring you more with my chatter, here is the video from our visit. I hope you enjoy it, and I hope it meets the quality guidlines on this forum.

Also I may post my photos on the forum if people are interested to see them also!

 

Filmed in the rustbelt of Pennsylvania comes a harrowing look at a town called Clairton, a once promising town 15 miles from Pittsburgh which flourished from the mining of a fuel called coke. It was also the same town the film Deer Hunter was supposed to be filmed in. While things looked great for the town and it’s people, pollution from smoke stacks was slowly but surely eating away at the residents health. Years later when industry left, Clairton stood silent, poor, and broke beyond repair with a cancer rate higher than the countries national average. Paradise was truly lost and gave way abandoned homes, neighborhoods, boarded up business, a higher crime rate, and wide spread substance abuse problems. One of the most well known abandoned neighborhoods is located on a street named Lincoln Way. Many of the homes are fire damaged from an unknown fire that happened years ago. No one knows why so many people just up and left there homes and belongings on Lincoln Way. Some speak of a beastly animal prowling the neighborhood forcing residents to flee in the middle of the night. Find out if the myth is true. Watch the new video by Politicize “Last bullet” now on youtube.

 

Many a great memories of hanging out here with friends, and late nights huddled around a fire inside this giant red shed with a couple of cider bottles. Unfortunately now demolished, this place gave some great views over Backwell, Nailsea and beyond. For me this is particularly sentimental, being my first ever explore. Opened in 1857 the main quarry isn't going anywhere, and neither are the multiple quarries situated nearby. Rest in peace, Red Shed. You will be missed by many.

 

Hi Gyus
I came across this place, a few weeks ago, that hasn't been abandoned for long, (5-6 Months), the power seems to be still on too. So I bet it would be mint inside, with everything left in tact. My latest visit was more of a scouting session to check the place out, and get a feel for the place. I noticed some minor vandalism has occurred this my last visit, which is painful to see.

 

Having been inside this building most of last Summer with my mates, I wasn't into taking pictures and recording then but now I am I thought I would give the Cinema a revisit. My fellow exploring partner @Smiffyboi uploaded a post on here last summer which received a lot of attention and is most likely the reason the entrance got boarded up. There has been no access since last summer but a month ago when I was doing my weekly check on the building to see if there is a way in I realised someone had made a tiny hole that I could just about fit through.
However, since editing this video and going back to record some more clips the entrance I had used has now been re-boarded back up so I was lucky enough to get inside and record a video.

History:
This was the first new cinema to be built for Rank after the war (others were completions of pre-war schemes) and it opened on February 1, 1960 with "Follow A Star".
It was designed by T. P. Bennett & Son and had 1,244 seats on a single floor in the stadium plan, with a stepped raised section at the rear instead of the normal overhanging balcony. The projection suite was suspended above the raised section of seating and had an almost level throw to the large screen.
In June 1987, it closed for tripling and the raised section at the rear was converted into two smaller cinemas whilst the front retained the original box and screen.
The Odeon was refurbished in 2001 and rebranded with the new Odeon style. This was despite the competition from a six-screen multiplex which opened back in 1990. Its future looked hopeful, however it was closed in August 2005. It was purchased days after closing by a local businessman, and the building still sits empty and unused in 2018.
(Source: Odeon Harlow in Harlow, GB - Cinema Treasures)

Anyway please see top of page for the video I produced with very little time in the Cinema

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Amid the glorious Victorian houses of Birkdale village stood Terra Nova, a private boarding school for boys set up in 1904. During the war in 1939 the school was transferred to Cheshire where it remains to this day and the Birkdale site was taken over by the CNRO as a records office until 1948. The school for the deaf was originally founded in Liverpool and registered in 1825 as the Liverpool School for the Deaf. When the school transferred to the Birkdale site in 1948 it changed its name to the Liverpool School for the Partially Deaf and was officially opened on the 11th September 1948 by the Earl of Derby.

The school was nationally renowned for its excellence and for its borders it was home. Amongst the more profoundly deaf it was a sanctuary from a cruel world they did not understand. The inability to hear or speak made it difficult for them as teenagers to form relationships with people outside the school and so many of the pupils went on to marry classmates in later life, had it not been for Birkdale they may never have met. The importance it had in these children’s lives had not gone unnoticed, and in 1989 Princess Diana visited the school. There was once a plaque to commemorate the occasion but due to severe looting and neglect the site has very few valuables left inside. To follow its already extensive and confusing list of name changes, the school changed name another two times, in 1964 it became the School for the Partially Hearing Birkdale and then in 1986 it became the Birkdale School for Hearing Impaired Children. It kept this name until its closure on 23rd July 2003, when more modern facilities across the region took precedence over the dated school. Since then, there has been no control taken over the future of the site and it was been left open to severe neglect, resulting in one end of the main building being partially demolished after an arson attack in 2010. The most recent redevelopment project was rejected by the local council in 2011, and further plans to turn the site into modern flats appear to be on hold despite sitting in one of the wealthiest areas of Merseyside.

Doreen Woodford, author, historian and advocate for the rights of deaf people in the U.K was one of few people to ever document her account of the experiences she had as a child at Birkdale. Four years after the closure of the school, and five years before her death in 2012, she wrote “The Education of the Deaf in Liverpool and on Merseyside.” Describing her life moving from mainstream secondary school in 1969;

“Up to the age of 12yrs I attended mainstream schools where my deafness created many problems, I found the teachers had no understanding of my impairment whatsoever, I was sat at the back of a low achievers class of between 30/40 rowdy kids…mostly off in a world of my own. I could only get into Birkdale when I turned 12yrs old due to the waiting list. Arriving at Birkdale in 1969, I can just about remember standing (holding back the tears) outside the main door waving to my mum as she left in the taxi to take her back to the train station in Southport. The first few days were a scary experience as I got used to the routine of a day at the school, very strict and timed events such as getting up and getting ready for breakfast (making my own bed!). But as time went on this routine had a good effect on the way I saw myself, I was no longer the loner and made friends easier because everyone was in the same boat, and because of the routine, I knew from one day to the next what to expect. I relaxed and began to settle in pretty fast. Compared to mainstream school, time spent in the classroom at Birkdale was like opening a window in my head and letting the breeze (education) get to my brain, small class sizes (max 12/15 children), headphones where the teacher’s voice came directly through to you, constant one-on-one tuition and hardly any restriction on the teacher’s time. Free time was also much more enjoyable as we could run amok on the school fields, play football, tennis, cricket, do some gardening in the allotment or look after the birds in the aviary. On wet days we would play table tennis, swim in the pool or just chill, watch T.V or read a book. In the later years (14yrs onwards) also out sailing on Marine Lake a couple of times a week. I think I had an advantage to other children at Birkdale because they had been at the school from their first day and had no experience of being in a mainstream environment, I knew how tough life outside Birkdale had been, so I knew that the school was a good place to be.”

 

Short cinematic take on urbex - no shaky gopro footage I promise!

Healey mills and dudfleet mill are only a couple of miles apart so visited both one morning to create this short. Thanks for watching!