Mercilessly taken from another Forum. Has some fascinating pictures of underground tunnels in Manchester. All long since disued. It's all part of a project called Urban Exploration. Some good photography and dare I say it slightly spooky. I am sure it will have links to other major towns and cities. Pretty amazing whats beneath our feet.Lots of stuff around here to look at the forums ww11 amazing.

Anyway here is the link





http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/sho ... manchester

i'm at work and I'm bored and thats very good

And this one, found on a link on that site, is even better

http://www.prettyvacant.fotopic.net/

some fantastic pictures of disused factories and mental assylums, including Cherry Knowle in Sunderland.

Real Art that is, that involved real people

Top quality

edit - just found this one too

http://exploration-nation.fotopic.net/

includes more great photos inc Hartlepool Magnesium Works and summat in Billingham

What do you mean, bored? Just get on with your novel

I see they have got the Paris catacombs in there. They really are very extensive and there is a legend that there is an illegal night club operating down there but you have to be trusted and need a guide to find it. Never been myself but it sounds a bit like Neverwhere if anyone has read that book.

Sounds more to me as if you need to trust them. What if they don't let you out and condemn you to a life of captivity and terminal pernod drinking

Tut tut grabec me dear, you really do need informing!

NOBODY drinks Pernod in France

The novel's finished madam. Its in the hands of agents. The top agencies receive 300 manuscripts every single week (thats probably an average rather than exactly!) and they take on two or three new writers every year. Those are the bastard statistics and realities.
I've had a number of rejections (inc one with a handwritten note which stated that it was very good from the top agency in britain, but was still a rejection) and I've sent off again.
Where i go from here is keep trying and eventually it will get published because its def good enough. I'm just trying as high up as possible to begin with.

My hostel is closing down for three and a half months for major refurb so there's only three residents in currently and they're all out right now.

So looking at those pics gave me summat to do and they are excellent.

There you go; long winded reply to what was probably a throwaway comment from you.
Anything else I've missed out?
PS - I find it impossible to be bored at home, just at work.

it wasn't a throwaway comment....was wondering how things stood. Good luck and keep us posted

So do they drink Ricard instead?

Oh yes!

And 51

I wonder what it is that makes derelict/empty/long since abandoned places so appealing? I love things like that, but can't actually give an answer as to why.

Ditto!

maybe it's the voices in our heads saying,"Yes, yes, this is where I shall bury the bodies"!!!!

Or somewhere to take them to die

a bit like Cromwell Street in Gloucester.


ouch!!!

Those disused places frighten me, like this the original Renault factory just outside Paris (very recently demolished after lying idle for ten years or so).



It might be because they remind me of when I worked in a megafactory that was dropping to bits.

The ones of the assylums are terrific, and quite terrifying too!
The artwork is scary. Going into the places themselves must have such a feeling and atmosphere attached, considering the type of people who were in them and the things that must have happened.

One of me mates did a big sponsored cycle between all the regional offices of the company he works for - Glasgow to Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Warrington, Derby, and a couple down south. Most of the time he cycled down canal towpaths and cycle lanes which tend to be alongside disused railway lines.

He said some of the stuff he saw was amazing - railway sidings full of old steam engines and carriages, ex-MOD sites with bits of tanks, planes etc, plus plenty of general disused buildings. I reckon someone could make a photography book featuring things like that which would be a big seller.