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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

I think I posted this one donkeys ago, but worth another mention

Exploring and recording abandoned buildings, eg this battery factory:
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=24861

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Old-Nail · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 853

That's a good site Rick, I'm sure we could find good uses for some of the ammo boxes dumped on this thread too!

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=26055

I hate to see serviceable items thrown away! Mad

buzzy bee · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire

Hi

I really aught not look there! Where is it by the way! Laughing

Amazing stuff, how can there be places like that abandoned, but I can't find a single garage?

On the other hand, the morning before I nearly got stung to death, me and a mate, went to go off road go karting but they were closed, the site was in an old airfield still used by light aircraft, and when we came to leave the access gate had been padlocked!

We had a good look around trying to get out, including driving up the runway! we found some pill boxes, but they were empty, nice3 buildings though.

Cheers

Dave

Old-Nail · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 853

Buzzy I've had the same problem in finding a garage. Eventually I've decided to bite the bullet and move house again (after only six months) to a property that has one! Laughing

buzzy bee · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire

Hi

It is a pain in the bum isn't it!

I say that we should all gang up and buy a derelict warehouse, store our own cars, and rent out space to others!

He he

Cheers

Dave

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Stranger things have happened!

Giggles · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject:

Fantastic stuff! Loads of local buildings on there, including the strange Ipswich Underground Railway (which never existed, April Fools joke in the local paper Rolling Eyes

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Looked at one photo of the Ipswich Sugarbeet factory and I know one of lads sitting in one of silos!! Confused

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clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

I was having a look at this tonight looking at the pictures of Rover at Longbridge. What a waste just abandoned. Bodyshells and parts lying all over the place. Everything even down to the office equipment just left there........sacrilege. Crying or Very sad

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badhuis · Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1390 Location: Netherlands

vintage scrapyard SE London:
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=36152

scottish scrapyard with steam trains, a WW1 gun and radial aeroplane engine:
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=34422

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

the fly · Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 95

Can anyone remember the little Wolsl;ey ? sitting up on a pole at the side of the A20in a scrappys near crittals corner.

pigtin · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: Herne Bay

Remember it well, always used to look out for it as a kid on my way down from London to stay with my grandparents in Tenterden.
I'm sure it was a British Salmson though.

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Brian M · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:39 am Post subject:

The A20 breakers yard with the car on the pole was my local when I lived at Bromley until 1970.

Spares from there kept my A30, Ford Prefect and Frog-Eye Sprite on the road. I still have the rear mounted 5" Lucas spotlight bought from there in 1968, on the back of my Volvo.

On another occasion I helped a friend remove a 3 wheel Berkeley Sports from this yard. We didn't have access to a trailer so we put the front of the car in the back of a BMC A55 van with the back wheel still on the road, ropes around the front chassis member and drove back to Bromley! Had to jump out to lift the back off the road and "hop" it sideways when turning into side roads!

Aah - the memories!
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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4756 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
If you had tied it down in the van by the rear and left the front wheels on the road, wouldn't it have followed you round corners by castoring? Confused

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the fly · Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 95

Hello Don i thought that you would have spotted the pole squatter .If memory serves me right it was painted orange and am prety sure that it had the oval light let into the top front of the rad grill a la wolsley .but it was a long time ago and i am not realy into cars . I think the scrapy was ruxley breakers . Incidently i got pinched for speeding not far from there the nice policeman was very intersted in the k t t but i still got a ticket and his Honour took a dim view of my antiks and said not to do it again .Regards The Fly .