Roped into a family holiday in Amsterdam visiting in-laws, I was soon looking around for something to explore.
I don’t know about the rest of the Netherlands, but Amsterdam seems to be an urbex desert - everything is far too tidy and developed.
The only area that looked at all promising was Hembrug, an old industrial site on the north side of the city which produced weapons and explosives from 1897 until after WW2 (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hembrug_(Zaanstad)).
These days most of the military-style buildings in Hembrug have been renovated into artists studios, conference centres, restaurants etc. but Google maps suggested there may still be a few derelict bits.
So we headed over and indeed there were some fenced-off sheds - nothing inside them, but interesting enough to look round all the same.
There looked to be more derelict stuff in a heavily wooded area of the site, but we didn’t get to see it since clearance work was going on at the time and we got shooed away by security.
Photos were taken handheld on auto, using torch and flash when it was too dark.
I don’t know about the rest of the Netherlands, but Amsterdam seems to be an urbex desert - everything is far too tidy and developed.
The only area that looked at all promising was Hembrug, an old industrial site on the north side of the city which produced weapons and explosives from 1897 until after WW2 (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hembrug_(Zaanstad)).
These days most of the military-style buildings in Hembrug have been renovated into artists studios, conference centres, restaurants etc. but Google maps suggested there may still be a few derelict bits.
So we headed over and indeed there were some fenced-off sheds - nothing inside them, but interesting enough to look round all the same.
There looked to be more derelict stuff in a heavily wooded area of the site, but we didn’t get to see it since clearance work was going on at the time and we got shooed away by security.
Photos were taken handheld on auto, using torch and flash when it was too dark.