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Explore #217: Connacht District Lunatic Asylum / St Brigid’s Hospital, Ballinasloe, Ireland – September 2017

July 27, 2018

Hospitals & Asylums, Ireland, Recommended Reports - some selected highlights

Explore #2 of the ‘Almost Died Tour’ The first proper explore of our Ireland trip was an absolute beauty… History (abridged and rewritten from here and here) Connacht District Lunatic Asylum (latterly known as St Brigid’s Hospital) was one of the earliest of the Irish district asylums, and opened in Ballinasloe Co. Galway in 1833 with an intial capacity of 150. It was designed by William Murray, based on an earlier design by Francis Johnson, and built to an X-shaped…

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Explore #216: Glyde Court, County Louth, Ireland – September 2017

July 24, 2018

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Farms, Country Cottages and Smaller Houses, Ireland

Explore #1 of the ‘Almost Died Tour’ In September 2017 James, Jade, Daniel and I did a mini road trip around The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, exploring a mix of both abandoned and other locations of interest with some ‘wild’ camping en route. We all met at Stansted Airport, and were joking about some of the YouTube goons who have recently being drawing unwanted attention to our pastime by posting ‘clickbait’ videos with deliberately sensationalised titles along the…

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Explore #201: Rooftop CW, London -April 2017

January 4, 2018

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High Stuff, Industrial & Commercial Sites, United Kingdom

After our brief stopover at a military vehicles graveyard James, Jade and I met up with some other friends for a night of rooftopping down in London… Our Explore It had been quite some time since I’d been out rooftopping, and this proved to be a very enjoyable and adrenaline-filled explore – not to mention physically exhausting! Our target was a huge 60-storey tower block, deep in the heart of London’s business district. Accessing such a site wasn’t easy given…