Urban Exploration

Cann Tunnel, Plymouth – March 2009

chase779 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:04:09 +0000

Visited back in March

Built: 1820 – One of the first railway tunnels in England
Length: 620 yards

Railway removed in 1916
Used as a underground hospital during World War 2, capacity for 3000 patients.

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chase779 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:04:50 +0000

1600 x 1200

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Dairy Crest Creamery, Totnes – 11th November 2009

chase779 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:59:26 +0000

Modern and completely stripped site

Dairy Crest was intent on demolishing the whole site until the Brunel-built building in the centre of the site which once formed part of the engineer’s atmospheric railway was listed and saved from the bulldozers.

Opened: 1934

Closed: 2007

Stoke Dameral High School, Devonport – 6th November 2009

chase779 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:28:38 +0000

Stoke Dameral High School For Girls

13th August 09 – Arson Attack

Feel free to contact me if you have any information.

RAF Binbrook – 5th April 2009

chase779 — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:27 +0000

Return visit, last visited in March 2008

RAF Binbrook was opened for operation in June 1940. It eventually closed in June 1988.

Unfortunatly this place is looking in a bad state, after my visit last year aswell as several years ago I have seen this place deteriorate. Has seen plenty of vandal damage, graffitti, metal theft and just general destruction by the youth of today.

Marsh Mills Clay Works, Plymouth – 20th March 2009 (Revisit)

chase779 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:46 +0000

After my previous visit/recce, I knew this place had more to explore.

Now I had access sorted I thought it was time to take a look inside, and it really didn’t fail to please. I really carn’t find any info on this place, all I know is at the moment its abandoned. Except for security.

Ice Cream Factory, Plymouth – 16th March 2009

chase779 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:36 +0000

Fire on September 14th, 2008

St Lawrences Hospital, Bodmin – March 2009

chase779 — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00:40 +0000

Upon arriving access looked impossible, with almost every external window boared up.

The County Lunatic Asylum, for the reception of private patients and pauper lunatics, a little to the west of the Town of Bodmin on a site of about 9 acres, consists of eight blocks of buildings radiating from a centre, with annexes and detached blocks subsequently erected and residences for the various officers.

Dance Academy, Plymouth – March 2009

chase779 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:05:18 +0000

On 6th May 2006, 140 officers were involved in a raid on the Dance Academy on the city’s Union Street. It follows a five-month operation which officers say showed class A drugs are being used and dealt there.

Iranian-born Manoucehr Bahmanzadeh, 52, earned up to Â£2m a year from the Dance Academy, one of the largest clubs in Plymouth, Devon, a court heard.

Bahmanzadeh was sentenced to nine years at Plymouth Crown Court. Club DJ and general manager Tom Costelloe, 37, from Honiton was also jailed for five years.

Both were found guilty of allowing the sale of the class A drug.

So after abit of planning I thought it was time to take alook inside, nearly two years after closure. Inside was nearly untouched, except for natural decay taking over.

Court House + Warehouse, Plymouth – 7th March 2009

chase779 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:00:42 +0000

Shot on film