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Explore #40: Cambridge Military Hospital (maternity ward), Aldershot, Hampshire – March 2014

April 6, 2014

Hospitals & Asylums, Military Sites, United Kingdom

After a night of breathtaking views in great company on the Kings Reach Tower climb it was time to make the middle-of-the-night drive solo down to Aldershot for my next target – Cambridge Military Hospital (or CMH to its friends). It was a surreal experience coming down from the adrenaline high of earlier in the night and driving around an almost deserted M25 at about 3.45am – at one point I must have driven for over a minute without seeing…

Explore #39: Kings Reach Tower, London – March 2014

March 31, 2014

Adam X

High Stuff, Industrial & Commercial Sites, Recommended Reports - some selected highlights, United Kingdom

My first “roof-topping” experience was an amazing way to kick off a sleep-deprived mini tour of a few sites down South (of Norfolk that is). It all started with me pootling down the A11, already a bit knackered from a heavy night the night before… until I wondered who that idiot was blocking me in in the right-hand lane. Turns out it was UrbanX, laughing his arse off at the idiot on his inside lane who had abjectly failed to…

Explore #38: St Peter’s Church, North Burlingham, Norfolk – March 2014

March 16, 2014

Adam X

Churches and religious, United Kingdom

I very much enjoyed this little 20-minute explore on a sunny sunday morning with Urban X. A brief history, abridged from here and here: St Peter’s church dates back to Norman times, with the majority of its current features thought to have been built around the 14th/15th centuries. Kelly’s Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, 1883 records: “The church of St. Peter is a building of flint with stone dressings, and consists of chancel and nave, separated by an oak…