Report - Shoreham cement works (Worthing may 24)

[dweeb]

One of the first places we did when discovering the hobby in 2003. Amazing really it's very much the same twenty years later.
Beautifully shot.

 

[albino-jay]

Yeah top job that. Still looks great after all these years. Wouldn’t mind seeing this myself sometime.

 

[sneakshrimp]

I visited this place last month with a friend. Spent 5 hours circling the place, looking for entry points, carving through brambles and bushes, slicing up our arms, only to meet dead ends and cliff drops. Eventually got in after MUCH effort, it felt amazing to finally figure out an entry. We had spent so long trying to get in that the time had passed 5pm and the majority of workers looked to have left. We were surprised at how many Dudman workers had been down there, it looked like most were just hanging out with their trucks idling. We carefully walked down from the top and admired the views. It's a very cool area to be in even on the outside, the chalk pits are beautiful. Eventually we got down to the main area with all the old abandoned buildings and within an hour we'd been had. We tried to be as discrete as possible. We were still on the exterior and had never actually made it inside anywhere, had been hiding from voices we had heard from inside one of the buildings. From what it had sounded like, we had no reason to suspect anyone was looking for us, but soon we rounded a corner and a worker was tight up against a wall hiding like a little ninja. He called out to us and the game was up. As he walked us to the entrance I tried to get on his good side, he told me he'd been working at the site for around 20 years and knew the innards of these buildings like the back of his hand. I tried to bribe him £50 for a guided tour of the place. That put a big smile on his face, he paused and seemed quite tempted.. but no dice. He walked us out to the front and an old lady gave us a good telling off. We'd been friendly from the get go so by the end they had warmed to us slightly, we had a bit of a laugh about it all. They sent us out the front and warned us to not return.

Even if we didn't manage to get inside anywhere it was a great experience - My first time doing some urbex of an abandoned place.

 

[thelonglostphotographer]

I wouldn't look to attempt this one these days unless your well and truly wanting a good telling off and to just be escorted out of the place only an hour later. I think they upped their game here A LOT since this was first posted no way in hell would you get to walk around this place unseen now.

 

[tobytron]

Its a lot more secure but its still doable if you have the dedication

 

[Webbs0710]

Most recent access point was blocked except for the most dedicated AFAIK. If you get inside, you're pretty much laughing though

 

[thelonglostphotographer]

If you know of how then I would love to give it a damn good try 😆

 

[exploringwithaz]

i badly need to do this place did try late last year but couldnt find a way in need to go with someone who is up for going and not been

 

[Urbex with Archie]

Nicely done. Nice to see someone else so the silos as no one seems to bother with them. Secca caught us in the main kiln area, he looked up and see my mate. Luckily that was the last bit so had a nice easy walk out of the front gate.

Did they just escort you out? I figured they'd be more of the type to try and call the police on you in this place - I'm never normally too fussed about it but this place has the £5k fine etc sign on the front and always makes me concerned they'd go down the legal route 😬 I've been here 3 times, tried getting twice and first time we got chased out by security in a red pickup - the guy was on the site on the opposite side of the Rd, saw us go in the front gate and flew under the subway tunnel, came out right in front of us and floored it straight towards us 😅 we ran so fast and scaled the chalk cliff to get away from the guy - he called in backup and locked the gates up... We waited in the bushes about 6ft from him for a while then made our escape - second time around we went down from the back of the quarry, then came to the bldgs right as a security guy showed up and started driving towards us in the dark - there'd been people in just before who'd pissed them off and so they were already on high alert - we reckoned he was waiting for the same people to return and having not caught the first bunch, he could've thought we were them; not knowing what they'd done to piss them off, we didn't fancy hanging around to find out so ran our way back up to the top and out across the fields with a view to return for a more successful third attempt at some point... 🥴

 

[tobytron]

Did they just escort you out? I figured they'd be more of the type to try and call the police on you in this place - I'm never normally too fussed about it but this place has the £5k fine etc sign on the front and always makes me concerned they'd go down the legal route 😬

I managed to get in at 3am during the summer, and explored the site all morning. Security left at abouat 2 and came back by 4. Might have been a different guy though because he was driving a silver merc. The truck drivers start coming in at about 6 and they make moving between the buildings a bit annoying but its still doable if you're careful.

 

[Urbex with Archie]

I managed to get in at 3am during the summer, and explored the site all morning. Security left at abouat 2 and came back by 4. Might have been a different guy though because he was driving a silver merc. The truck drivers start coming in at about 6 and they make moving between the buildings a bit annoying but its still doable if you're careful.

That's pretty cool! You came down from the back of the site across the fields?

 

[tobytron]

That's pretty cool! You came down from the back of the site across the fields?

I crawled right under the front gates

 

[Mikeymutt]

Did they just escort you out? I figured they'd be more of the type to try and call the police on you in this place - I'm never normally too fussed about it but this place has the £5k fine etc sign on the front and always makes me concerned they'd go down the legal route 😬 I've been here 3 times, tried getting twice and first time we got chased out by security in a red pickup - the guy was on the site on the opposite side of the Rd, saw us go in the front gate and flew under the subway tunnel, came out right in front of us and floored it straight towards us 😅 we ran so fast and scaled the chalk cliff to get away from the guy - he called in backup and locked the gates up... We waited in the bushes about 6ft from him for a while then made our escape - second time around we went down from the back of the quarry, then came to the bldgs right as a security guy showed up and started driving towards us in the dark - there'd been people in just before who'd pissed them off and so they were already on high alert - we reckoned he was waiting for the same people to return and having not caught the first bunch, he could've thought we were them; not knowing what they'd done to piss them off, we didn't fancy hanging around to find out so ran our way back up to the top and out across the fields with a view to return for a more successful third attempt at some point... 🥴

He just escorted us out. He was actually really nice, we were pleased us escorting us out as it saved us a lot of hassle getting out. Was funny as we were meant to meet two others there. We say for twenty mins and no sign so messaged them and they were nowhere near. Four hours later, they messaged and said they had got in. We quickly messaged saying we had been spotted but they had already been spotted, they had only took two photos ha ha. Two fairly well known explorers as well ha ha.

 

[Urbex with Archie]

He just escorted us out. He was actually really nice, we were pleased us escorting us out as it saved us a lot of hassle getting out. Was funny as we were meant to meet two others there. We say for twenty mins and no sign so messaged them and they were nowhere near. Four hours later, they messaged and said they had got in. We quickly messaged saying we had been spotted but they had already been spotted, they had only took two photos ha ha. Two fairly well known explorers as well ha ha.

Yh they're very on it there but at least you'd gotten off lightly with a nice guy 😊