There are some beautiful moments here. Derelicts are usually interesting enough, but some like this one acquire an afterlife. You have caught its spirit just right. Just excellent.
I started to serve my apprenticeship in this building (1976 - 1979) and I've recently been wishing that I'd taken photographs of the way it was. Rows and rows of double decker buses in various stages of repair, The HGV shop where I started out with trucks of various shapes and sizes (alongside "the moulder" who really did make sand moulds and manufacture frames for bus stops). Cheers
I have watched a lot of Urb-Ex videos on youtube and yours are by far the best on the site. Your cinematography is excellent and the music you select for the locations are spot on. You really know how to capture the lonely forgotten mood. I will be looking forward to new videos you upload :)
A friend used this as a background and photographed some of his punk friends with amazing shots of mohicans, piercings, tattoos, attitude etc., as part of his portfolio. Another friend, sadly now deceased, was an industrial historian and told me that some of the ironwork is repurposed tram rails from the horse drawn tram days. There was something unique in their manufacture- they were short and may have been cast as opposed to rolled. I think one of the locations of these rails may have been on the abutments of a bridge by the railway, inserted later as strengthening.
Did you go down into the basement? One half of it looks like it's been filled in but there was an interesting room underneath the hole at 2:27 in this video.
@MrCyclist68 Yup but also it's worth pointing out that not all asbestos is harmful, it's blue and brown asbestos that you need to be careful of which are generally around roofs and pipes. White asbestos isn't any more harmful than normal dust, I'd still recommend wearing masks if you are unsure.
Tried to go yesterday, seeing as they're building stuff they have little guard checkpoints and it is a lot harder to get into, this was a Tuesday though so weekends may be better
Hi, loved the video!! I've passed this place on the bus so many times but never really thought about whats inside. it looks amazing! i would like to check it out myself. how did you get inside because it looks locked up. did you just hop the fence :P x
@TheLegoTrainStation Silent Uk is a good site, we've actually visited somewhere will a lot of old trains. I'll post up the video in a few weeks so keep watching :)
Went in yesterday it's all fenced up now and broken you can get under ground in the left corner in the building without the chains near the train tracks real creepy tho
@jillameena76 The only old photos I've really seen have just been on a google search to be honest, I think the buildings have been set on fire several times unfortunately. There are some pictures online of the buildings only a few years ago which seem to have more intact.
