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Tales of the Urban Explorer: The British Rope Works

My last trip to Liverpool was around two years ago, and it was one of the more fruitful expeditions I remember in recent times, in terms of quantity, but not ne...

Tales of the Urban Explorer: Black Abbey Street

A whole row of derelict houses, or shops… or something. I spotted this terrible-looking street a few years ago, and since then, it has only got worse. Some of t...

Tales of the Urban Explorer: Wood Top Infants School

Twenty-four years, that’s how long a building must exist, empty and unheated, to look like what you are about to see. ‘Wood Top Infants School’ is well document...

Tales of the Urban Explorer: Duckworth Cleaning Products

I tried in vain to figure out what happened to "Duckworth Cleaning Products" or "Duckworth LLP", but to no avail. Why two names? Couldn't they make up their min...

Tales of the Urban Explorer: Return to Kruger Tissue International

Kruger Tissue International’, it had been four years since I had driven down the shaky, muddy road and deliberately parked my car a good half mile from the entr...

Tales of the Urban Explorer: British Aerospace Defence Dynamics Social Club

Over two years had passed since our visit to ‘Abandoned Scan’, in which we found a massive warehouse full of junk, valuable stuff; I don’t know what you would c...

Tales of the Urban Explorer: Abbyfield Care Home

"Are you going in there?" said the spiky-haired urchin riding on what looked like a home-made cycle. He wasn't the typical little shit we tend to expect, just a...

Tales of the Urban Explorer: St Peter and Pauls Church

Derelict Churches, I am not a fan. If you want to see a church, just walk in and covertly take some shots when the vicar is not looking. What’s the difference b...

Tales of the Urban Explorer: ATG Airports

Oh… how I wish I could start each explore with an image of a foreboding, spooky, dark house, or a dank factory flanked by a setting sun resulting in a contrast ...

Three-Tune Tuesday: Levi's Jeans Commercials

If you're a little older, like me, you might remember these. In the 1980s and 1990s, Levi Corp (yes, those dudes who make jeans) put out a few commercials (yes,...

Sunday Funday: November 9th, 2025

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to inte...

Tales of the Urban Explorer: Harpurhey District Nurses Home

Thanks, Razor. This one was another tip-off from my favourite Goth explorer, who appears to have run out of UK explores and is now exploring Europe. I don’t kno...

Mort the Shit Manager: Gladys Shufflebottom (Part One)

Source: Image by @katharsisdrill Mort, the Shit Manager is a spin-off fictional series of short stories based loosely on the thoughts of David Mortenson, the ty...

Tales of the Urban Explorer: Viscum Water Gardens & Aquatics

‘Viscum Water Gardens & Aquatics' are an enigma. They appear to have moved to a new location while keeping the details hushed. The fact that they left all their...

Tales of the Urban Explorer: The Doctor's House

The infamous Doctor’s House. I knew it to be a stripped-out derp, but as we were in the area, it was added to the ‘visit list’. My first impression was of renov...

World of Warcraft - The Addiction

It’s good to take a week off work. Are you going anywhere people asked me? ‘Costa-del-Slobberchops’, I tell them, a local acronym for staying at home and slobbi...

Who the hell is The Mortgage Nomad?

Hey everyone, A new friend of mine (@beelzael) I met in Cotacachi, Ecuador introduced me to this platform. His passion for writing and meeting new people from a...

Tales of the Urban Explorer: Kiko's Nightclub

Unlike some of the places I visit, 'Kiko's Nightclub' is well-documented, and there's plenty of commentary on the internet about what it was like in the past, a...

Tales of the Urban Explorer: Sandall Park Nurseries

Just in time, I figure. One year later, I read that 'Sandall Park Nurseries' has been demolished and is gone forever. Not that there was much to look at in the ...

World of Warcraft - Subscribed again, after a 14 year Gap

I re-subscribed to World of Warcraft for a month. What would it be like after an absence of 14 years? The last expansion I played was Cataclysm, and that was in...