2016

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Explore #17e (fifth revisit): Severalls Asylum including water tower, Colchester, Essex – September 2016

Confession time: I’d forgotten to post my fifth revisit to this beautiful old asylum, so please forgive the slight temporal glitch in my usual chronological posting! My previous reports give the detailed history and many more photos, including the most comprehensive report from my first 8-hour visit in November 2013 and a revisit by moonlight in May 2014 for something a little different. Our Explore Given that I’d previously explored ‘Sevs’ on no fewer than four five previous occasions, I’d…

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Explore #199: Happy World Theme Park, Yangon, Myanmar – November 2016

History (rewritten and abridged from here and here) The park opened in 1997 to great fanfare in a lavish ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by the great and powerful in Myanmar’s military dictatorship and even the Japanese ambassador, whose country supplied the rides. State media called the park “a recreation centre for the people”, with “world class… modern games”. Not to be confused with the other ‘Happy World’ park in Yangon which is still in operation, this Park closed under mysterious circumstances…

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Explore #198: Circle Industry cement factory, Italy – October 2016

Explore #11 of the ‘128mb SD Card Tour’ The final explore of our trip was a relaxed wander around the remains of a large abandoned cement factory… …we began with James deploying his finest fencing-hurdling access skills… …the view of the valley and lower parts of the cement works… Two huge milling / mixing pipes… I climbed inside a discarded section of milling pipe – it was hot, dusty, dark, and there was at least one angry hornet nesting further…

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