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General => Boards => Archive => Other Discussion => Topic started by: CoNfUsEd_GaMeR on April 14, 2007, 04:21:35 pm
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I don't know how many of you guys are familiar with this hobby, UrbEx, or Urban Exploration, to give it its full name, but it's seeming to really take off here in the UK, and it's damn fun. If you don't know what it is, it's basically trying to get to places where people would never normally go, that is to say, for example, old-abandoned buildings, or on rooftops. Or as www.28dayslater.co.uk says:
I personally believe that it is the exploring of abandoned buildings of which the public has forgotten or wish to forget. It also refers to the exploring of the Urban Landscape around you whether it be the Drains below your feet or the Tower Cranes above your head. There is also Infiltration which is the exploring of live or active sites.
What Urban Exploration and Infiltration are all about is learning to appreciate your surroundings and the buildings and structures around you and seeing beauty in places where many people will not. It is also about gaining access to these places in order to document, photograph, film or just explore these places.
Anyway, now you know what it is, I thought I'd show you my first UrbEx venture :P Thursday night we climbed the tallest building in my town, Jumbo Water Tower:
(http://www.savejumbo.org.uk/ColJumbo.jpg)
This was our view from the top:
(http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h229/Deiphobus/Image005-1.jpg)
That's what we were looking over, the Highstreet.
(http://www.creffieldroadsurgery.nhs.uk/images/townhall.jpg)
It was quite a rush, especially when we heard police sirens half way through haha. I'll be moving on to bigger things soon for sure :D
so does anyone else here do it? dan maybe?
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It looks pretty cool.
I think I'm going to try it soon.
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I'm charging my camera batterys as we speak. This looks mighty fun.
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which bit of England are you from? got any specific buildings in mind?
I'm going for this one tomorrow:
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=165545
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Looks pretty crazy... unfortunately my town is small and there's not a lot of places like that around. Maybe 2 years ago I would have been up for doing this kind of thing.
As for Dan.. I'm fairly sure he hasn't been here in a LONG time.
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which bit of England are you from? got any specific buildings in mind?
I'm going for this one tomorrow:
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=165545
I live in Telford, England. Its kind of a !@#$% hole, but I'm sure there are many places to go. I cant think of anywhere specific just yet, but I'm sure I can survey some buildings. Would love to try the Parish Council Office XD.
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Haha, I've always loved exploring. Shame it's pretty risky here considering every abandoned building will be filled with chavs injecting heroin.
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Haha, I've always loved exploring. Shame it's pretty risky here considering every abandoned building will be filled with chavs injecting heroin.
Should create an inbred 'hobby' and call it "Scally Hunting".
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Seems fun, really! I would do this kinda stuff all the time, if there were places to look at here, haha.
I live in a rather new town(developed almost entirely in the past decade). Everything is ..new, and unexceptional.
We have a million subdivisions all filled with relatively new homes, all about the same height, shape, etc.. all right out in the open. Where anyone, anywhere sees everything you'd be doing..
..So much for "gaining access"; as if anything that I could access would be surprising in the slightest :P.
We've got some shopping centers, filled with mostly unexceptional stores, in classy but average buildings no more than 2 floors high.
..Hmm.. then we have some land(spotty and far between, these days).. that's all it was until this town came about, so ..there's nothing old to look at.
Where I live there's not near enough land to feel secluded; but at the same time, there isn't much exceptional to look at :-\.
I guess that's what happens in a fairly new, 100% pre-planned community. No surprises here! ..I guess it's aesthetically pleasing though :).
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i'm telling your parents >:(
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CG, it's been here in North America [especially Canada, but also in the US] for a long time. I'd recommend joinin Urban Exploration Resource (http://uer.ca), I've been a member there for almost a year now and it's one of the better NA sites. I found out about urbex about 3 years ago when I stumbled on Infiltration (http://infiltration.org) by accident [RIP Ninjalicious]. If you end up joinin, Msg me ^-^ profile link is in my sig.
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CG, it's been here in North America [especially Canada, but also in the US] for a long time. I'd recommend joinin Urban Exploration Resource (http://uer.ca), I've been a member there for almost a year now and it's one of the better NA sites. I found out about urbex about 3 years ago when I stumbled on Infiltration (http://infiltration.org) by accident [RIP Ninjalicious]. If you end up joinin, Msg me ^-^ profile link is in my sig.
Wow, first I'm hearing of it.
Despite my already stated not-too-fascinating environment - I'll give this a look, and check out these websites!
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Kind of a grave dig, but this is bloody fun, theres a little mine near where I live, and I can get in, so I'm gonan go in there when I get a powerful torch :)
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Eh I've done this a fair amount, know a few people who do it a lot, been in some old 2WW military places where they made bombs, old mines, derelict buildings and all that. I've never had problems with the police but I have from others in these places, some homeless guy caused me trouble once..