My exploration of the Highway Flats in Leeds was quite a while ago, but, as life tends to go, other things got in the way...
From what I’ve found, these flats were built in the mid-1960s and had been vacant for some time. They’d been marked for demolition for years, and work finally began just...
January 2024
The Visit
Following my successful visit to Forton Services back in November, I felt the time had come to have another crack at the beauty that is the Hilton Park Tower.
Just as I had been doing with Forton, every time I passed the services I would pull in for a quick look at the...
November 2023
The Visit
I visited this one with Mrs Gronk en route to the Lakes for a mini-getaway, for as long as I can remember I have been fascinated with the tower at Forton/ Lancaster Services, but who can honestly blame me? You can’t ignore the 20 metre tall tower dominating the...
(as of 16/04/23)
Five Ways Tower is a 23 floor abandoned tower in Five Ways Birmingham. It was constructed in 1979 and was eventually abandoned in 2005 due to sick building syndrome.
For a while, security has been on high for the tower, with our last visit having the entrance sealed up with...
The History
Grain Tower Battery (aka Number 1 The Thames) was constructed between 1848 and 1855. It stands at the mouth of the River Medway with Southend visible on the other side of the estuary.
Construction is in the style of a Martello Tower with more modern additions made during WW1...
HISTORY
This tower doesn't present a lot of history through a scour online. Similar in design and construction to the WT you can see near Herne Bay which I can't get an exact date on, but trigpoints has it logged around 1940/50's if anyone can fact check this it'd be great!
EXPLORE
After...
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...
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...
Rooftopping in Bristol - Colston Tower, City Centre
The tower - as viewed from the Raddison Blu hotel
Colston Tower is an 18 storey office building in the centre of Bristol. It's 63m high, which is 1m shorter than One Redcliff - another high rise in the city centre. It sits at position number...
Clifton Tower of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol
Only a quick report this. It's another one from the archives, but this one was special as it's such an iconic structure. It's pretty much THE thing that people know our city for (along with a big ol' boat). It's the commuter route into...
---- 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...
Five ways tower used to be an old office block in central Birmingham, by the five ways round about. The 23 storey building was completed in 1979 however it was abandoned when a large amount of the workers kept on falling ill. Known as sick building syndrome this is caused by poor ventilation and...
Heres a request and a post to bait those who seek new challenges to get something I am interested in investigated close up. I have found a site which seems to have no reference here or in Subbrit. Its an estimated 200ft high redundant radio mast which looks to have a ladder all the way up...
Wilder's folly\dove cote otherwise know as Pincent's tower, Nunhide Tower and Flint's Folly or even pigeon tower by locals, is a folly dating back to when built in the year 1769 by Reverend Henry Wilder (1744–1814).
He was courting Joan Thoyts (c. 1748–1837), younger sister of John Thoyts of...
On the weekend I went to an abandoned car park in shoreditch, plenty of graff up and on the windows; i got it all on film here...
if you want locations please ask for my email in the comments and i shall give them to you, there was an unlocked door on the side for easy access, have no idea if...
my SECOND report plz don't rinse me
Its a block of buildings for students at the university of essex in Colchester.
they total 1142 rooms and one of them the one we climbed is under refurbishment
was with a friend COOL explore. was up there for a few hours. sunny day we just out there tanning...
My first REPORT plz don't rinse me
this is a standard residential area which had scaffolding up one of the sides at the time. Frinton is a town 30 minutes away from colchester and popular seaside attraction in the summer.
It's the tallest building in Frinton town and overlooks the seaside as...
Me and my mate travelled up to Norfolk from London to go back to the holiday park we previously have been too. We wanted to film a video as a joke for our YouTube, and to document what would happen throughout the night in this place. I can only upload photos as this website does not let me post...
Purdown BT Tower, Bristol
The Purdown BT Tower is a telecommunications tower in Stoke Park, which is in the Lockleaze suburb of Bristol. It’s just over 70 metres tall and used mainly for point-to-point microwave links, forming part of the British Telecom Microwave Network. It’s one of 14 towers...