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Mike Johnson said:
Truly amazing he survived, but is "Urban Explorer" the new euphemism for scrotes looking for scrap. 🤔
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No, that's not true. Urban explorers have a fascination with abandoned buildings and features. Most are big believers in not taking anything, and will not give locations of their finds out to avoid them being ransacked or vandalised.

Photography is a big part of it as well - some of the shots they take are really good.

A scrote however is a scrote.
 
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Never heard of an "Urban Explorer" before, thanks for the explanation, must get out more, been stuck in since the start of the pandemic.
 
True Urbexers are there for the explore and the photo's and for the buzz of dodging the intruder detectors and security persons.
They are not there for scrap, as Mr. 11kv had admitted, or for souveniers.
They don't force entry, they'll sometimes keep an eye on buildings for months waiting for the access to be available.
If caught by Security or the Police they usually get released when they show all the photos they've taken.

I'm not an Urbexer but do follow them on a very popular U.K site.

However there's now a new type of explorer who frequent U-tube and don't care what damage they do or what they take, as long as they get their "dramatic" videos up first.
 
I have done and do quite a lot of urbex, I have never forced entry to anywhere just walked in. And certainly never touched or taken anything, thats not what it's about as @snowhead rightly says.
It's all about having a good mooch & seeing a bit of the past for me and taking photos!
I've been to some pretty amazing and awesome abandoned sites that were well worth a look!
Sy
 
DPG said:
No, that's not true. Urban explorers have a fascination with abandoned buildings and features. Most are big believers in not taking anything, and will not give locations of their finds out to avoid them being ransacked or vandalised.

Photography is a big part of it as well - some of the shots they take are really good.

A scrote however is a scrote.
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NOT MUCH I would imagine
 
Quite the contrary @Petej999
Some of the sites I have visited are awash with untouched historical items and graffiti from the 1900's and in some cases earlier!
Some of the places have a very strange feel to them, especially old military sites, hospitals and very much so in one's that saw action during the wars.
Sy
 
SparkySy said:
Quite the contrary @Petej999
Some of the sites I have visited are awash with untouched historical items and graffiti from the 1900's and in some cases earlier!
Some of the places have a very strange feel to them, especially old military sites, hospitals and very much so in one's that saw action during the wars.
Sy
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What does that mean in real life?????? I have been about a bit Mate, and contact with 11K v means lots of singing and burnt flesh, not something to be trifled with, unless you want disfigurement for life.
 
I know it's not to everyone's taste, but I enjoy a good walk and if there is some history to be seen or bunker, mine, workhouse ect on the way then it's a win win!
We have a very rich and chequered history in this country and it is always interesting to see some of it and learn a bit more in the process.
Plus you have to have some excitement and enjoyment in life otherwise it would get very boring, this is just another thing on my list of interests!
Sy
 
Petej999 said:
What does that mean in real life?????? I have been about a bit Mate, and contact with 11K v means lots of singing and burnt flesh, not something to be trifled with, unless you want disfigurement for life.
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Loads of it. Maybe.....................
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown's 'Fire'
or 'Come on baby light my fire' by The Doors
anything by 'AC/DC'....or 'Sparks', even?

Just whinging about singeing 😉
 
Petej999 said:
What does that mean in real life?????? I have been about a bit Mate, and contact with 11K v means lots of singing and burnt flesh, not something to be trifled with, unless you want disfigurement for life.
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It means that the guy in question was most likely not an urban explorer at all (giving urbex a bad name) and when questioned by the police it was the best excuse he could come up with for being there tating out copper!
Most people with any sense would stay well clear of electricity supplies and switchgear especially on an unknown site.

One of my lecturers at college had holes blown in his hands, major burns and skin grafts after an incident involving a live overhead 3phase bus bar that was missing it's cover! All the apprentices had a healthy respect for electricity after he told us of his accident!!
 
I often get urban explorers as they like to be known going around the fields around where we live now in Neston/Corsham.
We got the big MOD site and ARC data centres with all those bunkers and secret squirrel things to do with trident and satellites underground. Had one explorer and his mates, phones on selfie sticks in hand stop me before and ask if I knew the entrance to something. sent him wrong way!!
MOD Plod are well aware and leave them be until they get too close! occasionally a few go underground trying to get in the old Burlington bunker and the 'red door' and get stuck / lost and have to be rescued. The area has ample CCTV and patrols that people are seen long before they get to the juicy areas.
All the obvious and viable entrances to stuff is now filled with concrete and secured. they still try though.
Essentially from Box all way to Corsham is an underground city of various bunkers and caves, most used by the MOD for whatever they need and dont want seen from above.
As a teenager I did venture down the mines myself and got as far as the famous red door at the end of Burlington and even in a few other places via a few remote entrances.... nothing to report but saw places I now know were riddled with asbestos!! the best route I was taken on was in effect an escape entrance just off a bog standard road in a small outbuilding that would pass as a storage building, own the steps and rusty stairwell you go before you reach the old parts of a bunker. being older and what i think is wiser I havent gone back down but a lot of the places used as a teenager are no longer accessible.
 
I love looking at a very well known Urbex site, the 28 day one. In fact a couple of my ventures into some ROC posts have been uploaded many years ago. Even my sheep picture came from a visit to a ROC post. I'm also into old, disused, railway tunnels. Camera on a tripod, shutter open and 'paint' with a torch or flash guns. Just wish I had the time to do it these days.
 
I like an old railway tunnel we had a few local to us that had some amazing features, crazy the work that went into their construction, unfortunately one of the best is now an aerodynamic testing facility!
There is an old ROC post at the end of our drive, not in good condition and very few original features left. But I have been to some with permission that are still in their original condition!
My other half and I went and looked at the Atlantic Wall in Europe a few years ago, very spooky in some of the complexes there, and the thought of our brave troops being shot at from them as we looked out from the slits was mindboggling!
Love a good urbex, years ago before it became a thing and loads of people started being foolish there were some very good open sites, and I even had permission to go into a few military sites. Now though there are too many Muppets on YouTube thing to make a name for themselves and ruining it for the sensible few. Most sites now have at least perimeter protection and Cctv or security. Also a lot of them have have since been redeveloped as housing or commercial projects!
 
I did the first full site survey of the vaults below St Katherines Dock and found Napoleonic sailors chained up to a wall behind a blocked vault, they are now in the National History Museum, it changed my mind completely about going underground.
 
Mike Johnson said:
I did the first full site survey of the vaults below St Katherines Dock and found Napoleonic sailors chained up to a wall behind a blocked vault, they are now in the National History Museum, it changed my mind completely about going underground.
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Now that is cool, what a discovery!
Do you have any pictures from it?
Sy
 
DPG said:
No, that's not true. Urban explorers have a fascination with abandoned buildings and features. Most are big believers in not taking anything, and will not give locations of their finds out to avoid them being ransacked or vandalised.

Photography is a big part of it as well - some of the shots they take are really good.

A scrote however is a scrote.
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From the article it sounds very much like the latter with a cover story.
 
Someone I was at school with got badly burned - his face looks a lot like that guy's. Never got the whole story, I don't see him that often and don't like to ask. But from what I can tell, was at a papermill near here, power off, bus chamber opened up and tested for dead - then as he started to work a genny fired up ... But that was told to me by a friend and bits of it don't sound right - I wouldn't have expected 11kV to be anywhere other than in the feed/transformer feeding the site (it's not that big) and 415V wouldn't cause the burns he had. Apparently doctors didn't expect him to survive due to the extend of damage to internal organs.
Friends say he permanently changed in personality as well - he's definitely "a character".
 
pc1966 said:
I presume it was suicide. Very, very sad :(
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I wondered that.

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Maybe they should show the video at schools.
 
Moley said:
a couple of my ventures into some ROC posts have been uploaded many years ago. Even my sheep picture came from a visit to a ROC post.
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SparkySy said:
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There is an old ROC post at the end of our drive, not in good condition and very few original features left. But I have been to some with permission that are still in their original condition!
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If you're ever in my part of the world, I own one in perfect condition.
 
Im guessing it's the Horns Cross one judging by the user name 'Lectrician'?
 
brianmoooore said:
Next one along - Torrington.
Bought from the MOD for the exorbitant price of £1.00.
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Looks very nice. And dry! Is the paperwork still there?

Should be a good investment that, they normally sell for around £25k these days, depending on location. Although I'm sure you know that already.
 
Notes from the last exercise simulation on still on the desk!
I have a couple of holiday cottages with a pamphlet in each about the post, so usually do a couple of guided tours per season.
Haven't been near the place since the covid nonsense started though, and the compound is overgrown with brambles, so I'll have to fire up the brush cutter sometime soon, before someone asks to visit. (Or Putin steps up the threats)
 
brianmoooore said:
Notes from the last exercise simulation on still on the desk!
I have a couple of holiday cottages with a pamphlet in each about the post, so usually do a couple of guided tours per season.
Haven't been near the place since the covid nonsense started though, and the compound is overgrown with brambles, so I'll have to fire up the brush cutter sometime soon, before someone asks to visit. (Or Putin steps up the threats)
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Great stuff. If ever I'm down there I'll have to pop in!
 
That looks mint, much much better than ours, and a very kind offer for a visit too! If I'm down that way I would love to pop my head in!
Thank you
sy
 
This is what we're on about, for anyone interested.
 

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I'll be by the Dunster post over the next few days. Totally sealed now :-(
 
Rosedale is in a beautiful location. But was welded shut when I last went a few years ago.
 
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