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boxfrenzy
29-01-2010, 06:52 PM
It was a cold December day in Bradford. A couple of fails and the day wasn't looking too clever. The light would go soon, and so a decision was made to look into some reconnaissance - sites that may need a property owner to say yes, or for chavs to rip off some steel sheeting. One place looked interesting - the Grade II listed Standard Building in Bradford.
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Although downstairs was a snooker club, the upstairs looked largely derelict and was accessed by a marvelous spiral staircase. Worth a punt? Why not? Getting the ok from the snookerman, we headed back the next month. Up the spiral stairs into the dark.
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In the past this would have probably been a showroom and a warehouse, no doubt linked to Bradford's thriving textile industry. In more recent years, it was a gymnasium.
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The floors were dodgy in parts, and pigeons and rats were clearly at home. Comedy was at every turn.
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The gym moved a few years ago. A few things remained.
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The sauna was a most unpleasant place to visit, although possibly slightly better than when it was full of steriod taking, poodle permed meatheads in tight trunks. Or even nude.
It has been a long time since this lonely towel playfully flicked a buttock.
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Nasty changing rooms.
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Plenty of opportunity for silliness.
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Maybe not action packed but an enjoyable half an hour nevertheless. 25 minutes of which were spent trying to take a nice picture of the spiral staircase and empty lift shaft, and failing.
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Rochester
17-02-2010, 10:43 PM
A few externals from today.

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