doozer
02-04-2009, 02:52 PM
My exploring life is divided into 2 eras, BC (Before Cornwell) and AD (After Discovery). Before I stumbled upon Simon Cornwell's site I had no idea people spent time wandering round old buildings, photographing them and generally having a good old rummage. Most of my life BC, from as soon as I could walk, pretty much, was investigating the local area, ruined buildings, old mills etc - mostly with the blessing of my Mum and the encouragement of my Dad. Even in my pushchair I was obsessed with a local culvert which took the river down a waterfall into darkness and under the road at the bottom of our stream (conincidentally next to the ruined mill... Rossendale is excellent for exploring! :D
After idly googling 'urban exploration' (after a futile search for 'urban orienteering' left me scared and confused:eek:) I clicked in the top link (Urbex UK) and got reading...
When I stopped, 2 weeks later... I found this place:
The Waygood Gallery and Studios is set back off the road on High Bridge, Newcastle. It's currently undergoing redevelopment to make is a bit more useable, but I visited it just after it closed for the last time in 2005.
It's a very lovely warehouse-type building. I have very little idea of what it was built for, unfortunately my research skills were a bit crap on this one!:o
This was also about 2 days after I got my first digital camera. So sorry for the quality of the pictures. I was a bit excited. :p
Pics:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/195/458721004_18ab2faebb.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/224/458737497_e8c6324c17.jpg?v=0 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/458721204_ee5177f184.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/250/458722024_8910e23b38.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/221/458738155_a1ab433070.jpg?v=0 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/458738401_7dcc454a5e.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/203/458722584_488d8db054.jpg?v=0
This little explore gave me the impetus I needed to do more. I joined 28DL, met up with iNewton and others to start exploring our asylums, then the July 2007 meet happened and the rest is legend... :D:D:D
After idly googling 'urban exploration' (after a futile search for 'urban orienteering' left me scared and confused:eek:) I clicked in the top link (Urbex UK) and got reading...
When I stopped, 2 weeks later... I found this place:
The Waygood Gallery and Studios is set back off the road on High Bridge, Newcastle. It's currently undergoing redevelopment to make is a bit more useable, but I visited it just after it closed for the last time in 2005.
It's a very lovely warehouse-type building. I have very little idea of what it was built for, unfortunately my research skills were a bit crap on this one!:o
This was also about 2 days after I got my first digital camera. So sorry for the quality of the pictures. I was a bit excited. :p
Pics:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/195/458721004_18ab2faebb.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/224/458737497_e8c6324c17.jpg?v=0 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/458721204_ee5177f184.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/250/458722024_8910e23b38.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/221/458738155_a1ab433070.jpg?v=0 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/458738401_7dcc454a5e.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/203/458722584_488d8db054.jpg?v=0
This little explore gave me the impetus I needed to do more. I joined 28DL, met up with iNewton and others to start exploring our asylums, then the July 2007 meet happened and the rest is legend... :D:D:D