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Improvised Drain Meet 2009
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Somewhere under Paris, two Russians, one American, one Aussie, and two Frenchmen try to keep their balance in a dirty, wet, and slippery round concrete pipe. There are just two torches for the six of us, and the less equipped ones wear sandals. While the Brits... July 2009 | 6 photos |
Nighttime ascent
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Call us tourists, but it all starts with the panoramic visit of tour Montparnasse. There’s nothing like a photo session 689 feet above Paris: truly impressive view of various landmarks, especially the Eiffel tower and its lighting display. Not long after 11pm, while the ambient light... June 2009 | 7 photos |
The pig factory
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Exploration of the Lunezy slaughterhouse. Olivier stumbled upon it a few days before, and since we could not find any information about it we decided to go and see by ourselves… Built around a traditional farm, the site progressively grew into a genuine meat factory and... March 2009 | 4 photos |
Barcelonnette, final stop
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The tunnel de Saint-Martin-La-Blache was part of a huge project to connect Barcelonnette to the French rail network. The engineering works started around 1910, and finished only after the WWI. After countless years of wasted efforts and money, the whole project was finally canceled in... December 2008 | 3 photos |
Paperwork
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"Procedure in the event of a death at St Ebba's and homes on the Manor site" reads a document left on the ground. Bored to try preventing unwanted visitors from getting in, the owner sought legal advice... Sign the forms, present your explorer certificates™, and St... November 2008 | 3 photos |
Private projection
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Sunday afternoon, it’s raining outside. Why not go to the theatre? Which film? Any film at all? Within the derelict Queen Elizabeth barracks is an old theatre building: That’s not a multiplex indeed, but the original projectors are still there. Last time I saw such a... November 2008 | 3 photos |
Portland
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After a rather quiet visit to Isle of Portland a couple of weeks before, I needed to go back for the real deal! Tom, a local, took me on a private tour. We first went to the RNAS helicopter control tower. The access wasn’t easy, but... July 2008 | 5 photos |
Fort du Haut Buc
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As planned, Olivier and I went back to the Fort du Haut Buc for a more thorough exploration. We started by the derelict Thomson warehouses before carrying on to the fort itself. We actually visited most of it during a previous explore, but this was our... May 2008 | 6 photos |
Pyestock stories #4
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Yet another Pyestock solo explore. This time I had no choice but to use a diametrically opposed access point to my usual one. It turned up being one of the best ideas of the day: I ended up visiting almost only buildings I had never been... May 2008 | 10 photos |
Under the golf
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Wentworth Golf Course is seriously hype: it hosts three pro tournaments a year. In comparison, much less is known about the air raid shelter that lies beneath. The media and I don’t usually focus on the same subjects: Starting to guess what happens next? After getting... April 2008 | 2 photos |
Tangley Place
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Not much is known about the origins of Tangley Place, an early Edwardian manor house. It's said that the MoD used it during WW2, and that it was converted into a post war convalescent home until 1955. The Ministry for Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF) then... March 2008 | 4 photos |
Work in progress!
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The fence around this construction site was so open that it would have been rude not to have a look. I was actually glad to find a playground to test the features of my new digital camera. Visited alone late at night. March 2008 | 3 photos |
Pyestock stories #1
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If there wasn’t anything cool behind a fence, it would probably not be here in the first place since no one would come anyway. Based on this assumption, the harder the access to a site the more interesting it shall be. Pyestock is surrounded by an... February 2008 | 5 photos |