KingElvis
20-10-2008, 01:34 PM
Obviously a weekend for abandoned piers on here. This example is Skinningrove Jetty, built in the 1800s and closed along with the nearby mines in the 1950s. Trains used to run down the slope to waiting ships at the jetty and you can still see train tracks to this day.
On the end of the jetty is a very strange pump/valve room thing which you can clamber into. There are about 1000 dead crabs in there.
Up on top of the hill is a fully operational steel works. A strange place indeed. Last year, some idiot fell down one of holes while fishing pissed or something.
http://ts12.gazettelive.co.uk/2008/02/angler_saved_from_skinningrove.html
Explored with Squirrel68 who didn't like the old broken pier one bit :thumb
First some old pics I found on the net of when the thing was in use.
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/key29z.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/4_94_Old_Shot.jpg
How it looks today. How they got trains back up here is anyone's guess.
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1396640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1393640x480.jpg
Nice train at the top of the slope
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1394640x480.jpg
Some more of the pier
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1363CR2640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1364CR2640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1365CR2640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1368CR2640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1370CR2640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1371CR2640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1374CR2640x480.jpg
Tracks still visible on the pier
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1376CR2640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1390640x480.jpg
The very end of the thing, rusting into the sea.
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1379640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1382640x480.jpg
Inside the strange room thing.
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1383640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1386640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1387640x480.jpg
Nice old style British Steel sign in the bushes
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1397640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1399640x480.jpg
On the end of the jetty is a very strange pump/valve room thing which you can clamber into. There are about 1000 dead crabs in there.
Up on top of the hill is a fully operational steel works. A strange place indeed. Last year, some idiot fell down one of holes while fishing pissed or something.
http://ts12.gazettelive.co.uk/2008/02/angler_saved_from_skinningrove.html
Explored with Squirrel68 who didn't like the old broken pier one bit :thumb
First some old pics I found on the net of when the thing was in use.
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/key29z.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/4_94_Old_Shot.jpg
How it looks today. How they got trains back up here is anyone's guess.
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1396640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1393640x480.jpg
Nice train at the top of the slope
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1394640x480.jpg
Some more of the pier
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1363CR2640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1364CR2640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1365CR2640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1368CR2640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1370CR2640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1371CR2640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1374CR2640x480.jpg
Tracks still visible on the pier
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1376CR2640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1390640x480.jpg
The very end of the thing, rusting into the sea.
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1379640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1382640x480.jpg
Inside the strange room thing.
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1383640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1386640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1387640x480.jpg
Nice old style British Steel sign in the bushes
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1397640x480.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/skinningrove/IMG_1399640x480.jpg