North East Urban Exploration Forums http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/ North East Urban Exploration Forums en Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:17:58 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg North East Urban Exploration Forums http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/ Lonsdale Cinema, Carlisle - September 2010 http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1333&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:16:58 GMT In case anyone fancies crossing the Pennines... The Lonsdale Cinema opened on 21st September 1931 it was operated by Sydney Bacon Pictures Ltd.... In case anyone fancies crossing the Pennines...

The Lonsdale Cinema opened on 21st September 1931 it was operated by Sydney Bacon Pictures Ltd. Architect Percy L. Browne & Son of Newcastle designed a superb cinema that was equipped for films and stage show use. Seating was provided in stalls and balcony. A feature of the foyer decoration was a stained glass window which depicted Carlisle Castle.

The cinema was taken over by Associated British Cinema (and subsequently renamed ABC). It continued as a single screen cinema until it was twinned, re-opening as a 586 seat cinema in the former circle on 25th May 1972. The former stalls area became an Alpha Bingo Club. Much of the original decoration within the auditorium was removed or covered over, and it was at this time that the Christie organ was removed and sent to Harrogate for preservation.

ABC leased out the cinema to an Independent operator R.J. Towers who twinned the former balcony screen which re-opened with seating for 410 and 230 on 19th December 1978, reverting back to its original name, Lonsdale Cinema. The bingo club in the former stalls area became a Gala Bingo Club. In September 1997 a third screen seating 50 was added, then a further 2 screens were opened in 1993 in the adjacent former post office building, seating 122 and 96 (enlarged to 116 seats in1996).

In early 2004 the Gala Bingo Club re-located to new premises.In December 2005, it was announced that plans were being put forward to demolish the Lonsdale (not including the 2 screens in the former post office) and build housing on the site. The cinema closed on 23rd April 2006 when the lease ran out.

The Lonsdale Cinema was designated a Grade II Listed building in June 2007 and was de-listed in March 2010, but still remains in the towns conservation area.

This is another one I need to re-visit. I think I missed a few things and my photos didn't turn out quite how I'd wanted them to. Anyway on to the pictures:

Stairways





Cinema Area











Projection Room







Stained Glass



Bingo area







Externals





http://www.flickr.com/photos/53170584@N07/sets/72157624894197522/ ]]> Site Reports jep27 http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1333 Hi all,a newbie from down south. http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1332&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:26:27 GMT Hi to all of you,i found this site while researching shipbuilding yards,Im very interested on our industrial heritage and how its declining.Im... Hi to all of you,i found this site while researching shipbuilding yards,Im very interested on our industrial heritage and how its declining.Im particularly interested in the shipbuilding industry of the north east. ]]> Introductions Bygonepast http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1332 William Rainford - St Helens - Sep 2010 http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1331&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:26:34 GMT Decided to take a look at this one after looking at it on Googal Maps. There is not a lot of history to be found on this one so here we go. William... Decided to take a look at this one after looking at it on Googal Maps. There is not a lot of history to be found on this one so here we go.
William Rainford.
Manufactures lightweight and dense precast concrete blocks, including lightweight coursing and foundation blocks. Made from Portland cement and selected aggregates, the blocks are available in solid, hollow and cellular form, and are offered in a choice of sizes and strengths. Paint grade blocks have a close textured surface and are produced in four thicknesses: 100, 140, 190 and 215mm.
On with the show.










A grabber for picking up pallets of concrete blocks.




The ovens




Oven doors



Thanks for looking. ]]> Site Reports The Cat Crept In http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1331 Newcastle Newbie http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1330&goto=newpost Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:07:58 GMT Hi everyone,

New to this site but i've been into Urbex for a couple of years now, been uploading to Derelict Places but its getting a bit too strict for my liking nowadays!
Thought i'd sign up after discovering a colleague was also into this sort of thing and he recommended I join this site, Cheers Rooster! Im also on Flickr (but not as OSPA)

Would love to get out more as I haven't been doing loads lately for one reason or another.

Anyway, nice to meet y'all! ]]> Introductions OSPA http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1330 Ravenhead glass, st. helens. 8/10 http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1329&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:42:26 GMT me and Over had some spare time and decided to have a look here a few weeks ago, there were some people onsite in a new looking unit. it was my first... me and Over had some spare time and decided to have a look here a few weeks ago, there were some people onsite in a new looking unit. it was my first visit here and i wish i had gone earlier.
Ravenhead Glass was a glass works near Ravenhead Colliery, St. Helens.it was founded in 1850 by Frances Dixon and John Merson,
In 1852 this factory was sold to the Pilkington Brothers.
Once every decade the company swapped hands until 2001 when following a series of downturns in the late 1980's it stopped production and went into administration.
In 2003 the Rayware Group, which bought the Ravenhead site announced that it would like to revitalise the brand, giving pint pots and other traditional glasses the Ravenhead name.

some of the photos left all over the top floor of th offices




inside the furness


old electric panel






]]> Site Reports scrappy http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1329 Dinorwic Quarry - Llanberis - 2010 http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1328&goto=newpost Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:27:57 GMT The Dinorwic Slate Quarry is a large slate quarry located between the villages of Llanberis and Dinorwig in north Wales. It was the second largest... The Dinorwic Slate Quarry is a large slate quarry located between the villages of Llanberis and Dinorwig in north Wales. It was the second largest slate quarry in Wales, indeed in the world, after the neighbouring Penrhyn Quarry. It covered more than 700 acres (2.8 km2) consisting of two main quarry sections with 20 galleries in each and a number of ancillary workings. Extensive internal tramway systems connected the quarries using inclines to transport slate between galleriesThe first commercial attempts at slate mining took place in 1787, when a private partnership obtained a lease from the landowner, Assheton Smith. Although this met with moderate success, the outbreak of war with France, taxes and transportation costs limited the development of the quarry. A new business partnership led by Assheton Smith himself was formed on the expiry of the lease in 1809 and the business boomed after the construction of a horse-drawn tramway to Port Dinorwic in 1824. At its peak in the late 1800s, "when it was producing an annual outcome of 100,000 tonnes", Dinorwic employed over 3,000 men and was the second largest opencast slate producer in the country. Although by 1930 its working employment had dropped to 2,000, it kept a steady production until 1969.The quarry closed in July 1969, the result of industry decline and difficult slate removal. During the 1950s and 1960s extraction had become difficult, because after 170 years of extraction many of the unsystematically dumped tips were beginning to slide into some of the major pit workings, and after an enormous fall in the Garret area of the quarry in 1966, production had ceased almost permanently. It was however decided that some final work could be done by clearing some of the waste from the Garret fall. This involved making an access road for more modern quarry vehicles across some of the terraces, to the rock fall. This amount of slate won by this method was small and all production stopped by 1969.
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Thanks for viewing. ]]> Site Reports The Cat Crept In http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1328 Underground exhibition in London http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1326&goto=newpost Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:53:07 GMT Some of you may be already aware of this thing, but if not, for anyone who can get down there for the 9th Sept, there's an interesting looking exhibition going on in the tunnels below the capital:
http://www.illuminievent.co.uk/
I'm slightly miffed that I couldn't get there as they'd kindly asked me to exhibit photos. ]]> General Discussion Hob http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1326 Current Condition/Info of Durham Group ROC Posts (1991 Closures) http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1325&goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:31:31 GMT Bamburgh - Hatch Broken, Few Good Bits Embleton Hart Heugh Millfield - Good Condition Otterburn - Good Condition Byrness -... Bamburgh - Hatch Broken, Few Good Bits
Embleton
Hart Heugh
Millfield - Good Condition

Otterburn - Good Condition
Byrness - Not visited

Shilbottle
Harbottle - Locked on Padlocks
Whittingham - Locked on Padlocks

Stannington - Restored, Locked and Alarmed
Hartburn
Longhorsley - Good Condition
Ellington - Locked on padlocks

Castleside
Prudhoe
Ponteland - Good Condition
Whitley Bay

Tow Law - Burnt Out
Westerton
Wearhead
Stanhope - Good Condition

Sacriston - Burnt Out
Easington - Burnt Out

Woodland
Croft - Damp and Smelly, Little Bits Remain
Cotherstone

Sedgefield
Hartlepool
Sadberge

Great Ayton - Flooded
Redcar - Locked on Torlift, Stripped but Dry
Chop Gate - Securly LOCKED AND ALARMED (Restored)

Castleton - Flooded
Hinderwell
Goathland - Good Condition

Richmond
Aysgarth
Hawes
Reeth - Good Condition

Posts are organised in clusters.

Red = Demolished
Blue = Open (or Tbar/Torlift)
Purple = Locked
Green = Not visited

Please PM me to update the list :)

If you are intrested in the document with post numbers, grid reference, private wire numbers, clusters etc for Durham Group, PM me with your email address and i will send it to you as a word document. ]]> General Discussion Krypton http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1325 Even more damage at Tunstall Court :( http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1324&goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:11:53 GMT The stage room, intact the last time I went, now looks like this :'(

]]> General Discussion Cosmo http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1324 Age old question, which camera? :P http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1323&goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:53:26 GMT I know it gets asked a lot, but I am genuinely a bit confused here.

Basically I've decided against going for the Lumix fz-38 I think.. I still like it I've just decided I want a dslr again.
I had to sell my 400d a while back for personal reasons.
My budget is basically however much of my student loan I want to spend :P
I really liked my 400d so at the moment I would like another Canon I think. Plus I really like the sound of the Canon 10-22mm lens


My problem is that there are so many entry level Canon dslrs!
Took this from wikipedia

Which one should I get? :S

]]> Kit Cosmo http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1323 Fire at spillers http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1322&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:47:57 GMT Saw it on the news tonight. Looks like the top floors of the eastern end of the building have gone. Scumbags. Nice way to spoil things for everyone. Saw it on the news tonight. Looks like the top floors of the eastern end of the building have gone. Scumbags. Nice way to spoil things for everyone. ]]> General Discussion Branston http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1322 *MURDER SCENE* - Belmount Farm, Durham, 15/8/2010 http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1320&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:30:14 GMT Today the ruined farmhouse of Belmount is like many lonely spots out on the moor above Ramshaw, the wind sighing sadly through the rotting timbers of... Today the ruined farmhouse of Belmount is like many lonely spots out on the moor above Ramshaw, the wind sighing sadly through the rotting timbers of old window frames and roof joists. But Belmount has a fascinating, dark secret which it has kept to itself for almost 130 years; if those tumbledown walls could speak, they would tell us who murdered Robert Snowball in his workshop on New Year's Day, 1880.

Young farmer Robert Snowball left the remote farmhouse - where he lives with only his father and the housekeeper - to do some joinery in the byre, with plans to go and visit a friend later on that evening. The next morning he is found dead by the housekeeper after being hit with extreme force in the back of the head with a sledgehammer.

The case attracts national press attention; on January 12 The Guardian's correspondent writes that he had been up to Belmount...
"It would be almost impossible for a stranger to find the house even in daylight, and it would be impossible for him to find it after dusk. He would lose himself in the attempt. Robert Snowball had taken on the tenancy of Belmount in May 1878, and had lived there with his aged parents, John and Ann. Robert's mother had died just six or seven weeks before the 26-year-old's own life would come to its abrupt and grisly end. The whole of his teeth were forced out, the blow from the 3lb iron hammer with its 3ft long shaft had been struck with such force that half of the hammer head entered the back of the skull."

THE FULL STORY IS HERE -
http://www.hunstanworthhistory.org.uk/happened/belmount/
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]]> Site Reports ChrisClub666 http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1320 Get Carter Car Park Gateshead Demo 28th August 2010 http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1319&goto=newpost Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:04:55 GMT On a trip to Tesco's at Gateshead today the 28th August and also to see how the demo of the car park is getting on and couldnt resist these 2 pics the arm of the demo machine seemed to framing something in the background.



Zoomed in for a close up i suppose the ticket machines will have been emptied by now.



Looks like its not long left now i rather liked it myself though not everyone had the same opinion. ]]> General Discussion dave http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1319 <![CDATA[St. Mary's Update... August 2010]]> http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1318&goto=newpost Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:35:39 GMT Popped in on St. Mary's on the drive back from Northumberland this afternoon, what a sorry sorry sight we discovered...

Arriving in the field at the back of the site we were in for quite a shock... This imposing pile of rubble is made from the hospital formerly known as St. Mary's.



I don't want to sound dramatic but the whole place was very sad. As previously reported the chapel, front entrance and the tower still stand proud. It looks like they are still in the progress of demolishing the main building but there is not a great deal left now.



The site was alive with activity, even on a Sunday in the middle of a Bank Holiday weekend. Plant equipment churned in to life as I sneaked up to the Main Building to get a couple of shots, I saw a van door open nearby and promptly disappeared back into the bushes...

This visit was more an exercise of 'How far can we push it'... as I have previously enjoyed uninterrupted visits to the Hospital. Nowadays the whole area is so much more open and it is more difficult to sneak around. Have your wits about you if you're visiting. ]]> General Discussion dark matter http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1318 Charlaw hills Nuclear Bunker (DURHAM) http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1317&goto=newpost Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:15:32 GMT Google map co-ords - 54.826551,-1.655913 Would suspect if you tried to gain access into this it would be classed as some form of terrorism? only... Google map co-ords - 54.826551,-1.655913

Would suspect if you tried to gain access into this it would be classed as some form of terrorism? only saying that as even mixing simple chemicals in your own property is declared as terrorism these days.

Anyone have anymore information / ideas on it? ]]> General Discussion Rabbtc http://www.northeasturbex.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1317