We explored Barrow Mental Hospital
Just outside of Bristol, it was like every one just left one day, leaving everything. Sadly it has been heavily vandalised and previous explorers had set up a room to look they Filmed Saw there. Otherwise well recommended. Just watch out for the Police dog training that goes on in the grounds.
( Rev. Jayneflakes Buy my book, I need the cash for drugs and hookers, Sat 9 Apr 2011, 20:05, 1 reply)

I'm not very adventurous myself
But I love this site

www.uer.ca/locations/newlist.asp?n=1&statfilter=160&country=England
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Sat 9 Apr 2011, 20:09, closed)

When I was a kid
A mate took me to a secret location, which turned out to be an ordinary looking drain cover at the edge of a park. The cover was locked, but the earth had been scraped away beside the concrete block it was set in, and we could squeeze through.

It turned out to be a side-entrance to Newhaven Fort, a military fort built into the side of a cliff. It's a museum these days, but back then it was completely derelict and abandoned - a maze of tunnels which would lead to barracks, control rooms or emerge unexpectedly onto gun emplacements set into the cliff face.

A place of wonder and enchantment, for a young lad. Imagine being led into the interior of the Great Pyramid. I remember one stairway which led down into the bowels of the earth; the roof was flat so got deeper and deeper, and half way down you had to go under a huge block of fallen masonry that was jammed half way down.

I can't face going there now, all sanitised and made safe; it would destroy a cherished memory.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 11 Apr 2011, 13:51, closed)