finding more respect for you this evening ninja;)
Looking at those, it almost makes me feel lucky to be living on the oustskirts of Slough 
I’ve never lived in London,and never will because I’m a country yokel at heart and where I am now is as close to a town as I want to be.
Lots of interesting pics, though, and a reminder of how much of our heritage is being left to wither and die.
I prefer to live on the outskirts these days too - I lived in the inner-city in my teens and twenties and it was fun - but these days I find the aggro associated with city living tedious.
Does that mean I’ve been coming across like a berk recently? :crazy:
Probably - I’m going through a crisis/transitionary period at the moment. . . getting all reflective and that. . .
Ah now this is what I’m talking about
Has anyone ever been urbexing? It’s such a fascinating way to spend a few hours if you find the right place to go. There’s a farm not a million miles out of London that I went to with photography friends a year or so ago. Apparently, one day it was a thriving farm … the next, the farmer was evicted … and that’s how it still is now … full of machinery and equipment - just in a sorry state of dilapidation … could have spent hours walking around noseying in all the barns / milking parlour / animal sheds etc etc …
Technically … it’s trespassing … but 99.9% of people live by the motto “take only photographs - leave only footprints” … so it works for the most part (and if you don’t get caught :D)
There was a chap not so long ago though who went around a really popular urbex hospital site in Scotland (lots of stuff to look at with poor security/easy access). He harmlessly submitted a few (really really good) pictures to the BBC for a photo competition or something and a journo got in touch with him to say she was really interested in his photography etc - could he show her around - which he did … and once they got there she twisted it around on him to just get the gorey details to slag off the NHS. The bloke thought he was showing up for an interview about his photography (you can see he’s carrying around his tripod and £5k worth of Nikon around his neck) - and while perhaps naive - he was sent death threats through the internet from hundreds of people for getting the hospital closed down so they couldn’t carry on exploring there!
If you’re interested in seeing other stuff - the 28 days later forum is really good for a nosey … type into the search box the town/village where you grew up and who knows what you might find … in fact it’s been a while since I looked on 28 days later so have just found they’ve closed down the swimming pool I learned to swim in 
happy memories
I know what you mean - I read about some of these urbexers a few years back who were doing a tour of the old hamersmith hospital + plus abandoned tunnels and stuff.
I try stick to the rational most of the time :ermm: but it’s like you can pick up the psychic energy off of these places.
I reckon it’s all about lost time and coming to terms with mortality and decay personally. . .
That’s a cheery thought. . . Have a great weekend! 
Fantastic site.
Don’t know why but I do have a fascination for this kind of stuff.
nice link fella. especially like the war and music sections.
why the lordy! they don’t open museums dedicated to the bands/youth culture movements that played in these now derelict buildings i don’t know. would surely generate some music biased tourism in london as we are, after all, world leaders in music & youth culture. regeneration without loosing the roots of our culture. but instead all they’re interested in is property development and £££s. foccers 
Well done for posting this Sid, I mean Ninja.
(preferred your old nom by the way)
This is something I’ve always thought I should have done. For years I have gone past fantastically decrepid and derelict old buildings thinking ‘I really must take a photo of that before it’s demolished’. Unfortunately, I never seem to get round to it and before you know it the building has been flattened or bastardised and a whole chunk of social history lost with it.
In South London some of the shopfronts, pubs and big victorian houses that had remained pretty much unchanged since the seventies have been ‘refurbished’ or swept away in just the last few years. There are still a few of this sort of relic left but they’re going fast so it’s good to see that someone is making a record of some of them for posterity.
This might even spur me into action. Maybe leave early tomorrow, take my camera and get some shots.
How about a London Relics rideout- i.e. Jetstream style, get as many photos of derelict buildings as poss in an afternoon, say? 
I like the idea of a London relics rideout!
I mean a ride out to the relics. . . :ermm:
We could make a film of it. :w00t:
That’s a plan- have you got a video camera? Even better if you’ve got a spare pillion to do the filming…
How about doing it on a weekday so the shonky shops are open- we can get the owners to pose by their shopfronts for added frisson. I for one would be willing to take a day off to do this…how about a Wednesday- we could maybe do a loop and end up back at the BM for tea?
+1 mate… but i get the urge to get into these places and burn them:ermm:
joke:D great site
Great thread, great to see there are others here who appreciate the old buildings. Mr-C - that urbex site’s one of my favourite websites, Downfallen is an exceptional contributor, he takes brilliant photos. Particularly like his Southwark Towers and 15 Canada Square threads under “High Stuff”.I used to list buildings, did that for about 5 years and saw many fascinating structures in a terrible state, some literally about to be bulldozered. Sometimes it was very sad watching some nice, characterful buildings being destroyed, and being powerless to prevent it as they did not meet the criteria. Of the structures that crossed my desk during that time, the more interesting ones were this, this, and, straight in at Grade I, the very room that the Battle of Britain was fought from.
Once I was taken to the High Court for not listing this, in an unsuccessful attempt at judicial review.
Is that the Tricorn centre?
No, it’s Pimlico School. But I was also involved in the Tricorn, but luckily not JR’d over it!
Thanks for the thread, ninjasid (?)
I love looking round old buildings and stuff and have never heard of urbexing - see, told you I was a yokel.
I get the feeling that the urbex forum is gonna become a regular for me…
I’d be happy to get on a relics rideout
I’ve been thinking about putting up a “LB Photography Club” thread in the rideout section … Considering I bought a bike to make it easier to partake in my photography hobby … my camera has sat abandoned and unused because any spare time has been spent on the road rather than 'togging :hehe: time to combine the 2 really
Anyway … The point of this post is that I’m on a 125 with a relatively shoddy sense of direction 
so wouldn’t fancy leading a ride … If anyone wants to volunteer to do it in my place though … My abandoned farm would be one of the stops … Access is really easy, no shimmying over walls, just walk in off the street … Whether people have a DSLR, point and shoot or just a camera on your phone and fancy a wonder around an eerie relic…
Any interest?
I’ll be up for this. Let’s plan it properly beforehand.
I’ve got a small video camera - we could make a spooky video - kind of bikers meet Blair witch project in a derelict building. . . :w00t:
NinjaSid is a much better name G
Similar site here
Came across it one day when idly googling for info on the hospital where I was born. How did we waste such gargantuan amounts of time before the internet?!