Went for a little explore earlier (56k sorry)

thehappyotter · Post by **thehappyotter** » 23 Aug 2006, 01:00

The one on the left is mine and the one on the right belongs to a friend, i'm looking after her whilst her owner is on holiday.

They're both pets, failed working dogs. They were bred from working stock but bitch's rarely have enough agression and are sold on/given away as pets.

If I ever get burgled they best be prepared to get licked to death...

VEGAS · Post by **VEGAS** » 23 Aug 2006, 06:09

Nice shots Rob, they do give a kind of creepy & eerie feeling.

Love the pooches as well!

Reheat · Post by **Reheat** » 23 Aug 2006, 08:51

Good bit of Urbex there!

Shame about some of the graffiti! why can't people just look and appreciate rather than look and vandalise!

AndyG · Post by **AndyG** » 23 Aug 2006, 09:19

TobyV wrote:
ianhind wrote:And yes it will probably be flattened.

Was going to be an asylum centre, but rumour now has it as a nuclear waste dump. :sad:
I heard that about Milton Keynes, but I think it was just wishful thinking :dance:

Milton Keynes had a far worse fate, it was used as a 'Londoner waste dump'; all the undesirables, rubbish footie teams etc were transported up in specially adapted trains and moved to a safe location.

AndyG

alan cottrill · Post by **alan cottrill** » 23 Aug 2006, 10:39

Sad very sad,i did my aircraft mech electrical course there in 1970.
i did six months there on my course,went there as ac plonk and finished the course as an lac,with a 90% pass mark,which meant i got automatic promotion to sac six months later.
That base had an avro vulcan,for training on,which had landed on a grass strip,reinforced with wire mesh,did you see any sign of that on your rounds,in one of the hangars.
alan.

thehappyotter · Post by **thehappyotter** » 23 Aug 2006, 11:40

From this site:

http://www.avrovulcan.org.uk/1_group_pr ... /905bw.htm

It was XA905, scrapped in 1974.

It's amazing that they landed a Vulcan there, tiny grass runways were not designed for that kind of thing surely...

thehappyotter · Post by **thehappyotter** » 23 Aug 2006, 11:46

I've very crudely marked on a map the little bit i've explored so far. Plenty more to go.

Whilst out this morning I noticed some massive houses on the little bit of the officers housing area i've not been to.

Must have been for the big bosses.

There's also a rusty childrens play area which looks rather sad being so rusty and useless.

d0mokun · Post by **d0mokun** » 23 Aug 2006, 12:01

I must say that looking at these photos is great- they have such an air to them, such nostalgia.

The playground comment made me think of one of my goals in life- I've always wanted to visit Chernobyl just to see a whole world stuck there; stuck in time.

This sort of stuff fascinates me! I spent a good few hours at Binny last year photographing stuff, thought it's mostly commercial or sold off now.

Awesome shots mate.

Dan.

petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 23 Aug 2006, 12:43

The Tower looks interesting:-

http://www.controltowers.co.uk/N/Newton.htm

alan cottrill · Post by **alan cottrill** » 23 Aug 2006, 12:58

Looking at the pic,i can see the h block i was in for my six months training,if you look just above the red line,you can see the parade square,with three h blocks either side,at the top of this square is the canteen or mess hall,and the naafi,the h block that is shown dark,just above the line was my billet,if memory serves me correctly,the main admin block,is to the left of the mess,cant remember which hangar housed the vulcan at the moment.
alan.