portsmouth

After gaining the grand approval from the better half, to attend a tour of Fort Southwick Underground HQ, this was a golden opportunity to check out a few other local sites which had been on my 'bucket list'. Whilst trolling through a certain explorer You tube channel, this little gem had peeked...

Hilsea Lodge was a 35-bed care home in Portsmouth that closed in September 2019. Portsmouth City Council decided to shut it down due to high refurbishment costs (around £2.62 million) and concerns about its aging infrastructure. A 2017 Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection also highlighted...

I’d had my eye on the Grosvenor Casino for a while, but it always seemed sealed off. Then, I got a tip about a way in, and after a quick check, we were inside. The place closed in 2015 and had been left to rot. The ground floor used to be full of slot machines and poker tables, and there was a...

Hi, recently moved to Portsmouth looking for some urbex mates. Newish to the game have done 5 or 6 solo trips ............. Date of Visit: Jan 2021 Fort Gilkicker update Our original intentions were to go to fort Gilkicker. This is a 19th century coastal defence battery in Gosport that has...

History: The Portsdown Underground Fuel Bunker, in Hampshire, was built during the late 1930s by Sir Robert McAlpine's construction company, as a bombproof oil reservoir to serve the Royal Navy fleet at the base in Portsmouth. This underground storage facility played a vital role in Britain's...

In 1927 the Portsmouth Corporation Transport company purchased 3 acres of land in Eastney to build the new Eastney bus and tram depot and transport head office. In the 90's after deregulation the company became part of Portsmouth city bus and the depot was knocked down to become a housing...

ODEON Cinema - Northend, Portsmouth. I'm a photography addict and am fairly new to Urban Exploration. I find it so interesting to see history of places you either visited as a child or places so old like WW2 shelters. Me and a friend decided to visit the old Abandoned Odean Cinema in...