Wotton-under-Edge BT Tower, Gloucestershire
Climbed in the excellent company of @WhoDerpsWins
The tower is just over 76m, or 250 ft, high. As with the other towers built in this style, it's made of reinforced concrete known as the 'Chilterns' design. As far as I can tell, it started operating...
LYDDEN SPOUT : DOVER, KENT - UK MID April 2022
**WE CLIMBED THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER ** - Bottom > Top
Here are some still pics from one of our latest explores.
I strongly advise no one attempts to climb this cliff face as its extremely dangerous especially in wet weather. Luckily for us...
History:
Balfron Tower in Poplar, East London, was completed in 1967, and designed by architect Ernö Goldfinger. The tower itself is actually part of a much larger area, known as the Brownfield Estate, which was completed 6 years prior to Balfron Tower, all designed in the same traditional 60's...
History:
In the 1860s, Canterbury's water supply was drawn from a variety of sources, such as the River Stour and local wells. However, without a filtration system, the water was deemed hazardous and unfit for human use, and could only be used for cleaning purposes. Subsequently, by 1870 a...
History:
Kingsnorth Coal Loading Jetty in the River Medway, although officially named Oakham Ness Jetty, was built in 1964, as part of the construction for Kingsnorth Power station, which was to become operational 9 years later in 1973.
The jetty itself was built 1.2 miles out into the estuary...
Background Information:
Construction on the Finsbury Tower in Islington, London, first began in September 2018 and is set to be completed by August 2021.
Originally, the site was home to an old disused 1960's office block, but with the need for space in London increasing daily, the construction...
History:
The Mendlesam Transmitting Station, just outside Stowmarket in Suffolk, first entered service in October 1959 and provided a signal for over 2 million homes in the Eastern counties. It was at this time that the Mendlesham mast became the tallest structure in Europe, and kept the title...
Rooftopping in Bristol - Castlemead, Lower Castle Street
Castlemead with adjoining NCP car park in front, and the Eclipse Tower behind
Castlemead is the tallest (finished) high rise building in Bristol. I say finished because as of a few months ago, the core of the Castle Park View high rise...
Rooftopping in Bristol - Eclipse Tower, Cabot Circus
The building as seen from the Galleries multi-storey car park
This building is offically called Eclipse, but to lots of Bristolians it's known as the Harvey Nichols building/tower. It's highly recognisable and forms part of the Cabot...
---- Going with the theme of lockdown reports from the archives! ----
St Mary le Port Church
One of central Bristol's most popular parks, Castle Park, actually boasts two old churches. The one that any local will recognise is St Peter's Church. This sits virtually bang in the middle of the...
Wellington Monument,Somerset
First off, this is hardly an epic. It's more in here in case anyone else wants to go and have a poke before it the scaffolding goes or they alarm it etc etc.
Anyone who has driven down the M5 and paid attention to their surroundings may have noticed a small...
"Oh well, there's always plan B just down the road"... and plan B is exactly what we resorted to!
After our initial target for the day didn't quite work out, we made the decision to give one of our backup locations a bash. That being a 25 story tower block...how spectacular!
Constructed in...
So here we were, standing 225ft above the capital on an exceptionally blustery night...what could possibly go wrong?
Once at the top, what it lacks in height, it makes up for in uninterrupted views of the square mile...
All in all, a cracking little mission.
After scaling Littlebrook's chimney three times over the summer with several mates, and snapping roughly 70 odd shots, I've finally decided to post a few of them...
After dealing with the copious amounts of dust, pigeon shite, grease and god knows what else on the chimney's 800 step staircase...
Saw this radio mast and it looked interesting from a distance so my friend and I decided to cycle over to try and climb it. I had never climbed anything before so decided to start with this radio mast as it is in the middle of nowhere, so the chances of being caught are practically zero (Only...