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Explore #206: Haut Fourneau B (HFB) steelworks and blast furnace, Belgium – May 2017

Explore #5 of the ‘Hot Filth Tour’ Morning two of our trip was some epic industrial griminess with this explore of a huge rusting iron and steelworks… History (rewritten from source information on wikipedia) The company which built the Haut Fourneau B integrated iron and steelworks dates back to the 1809 Fabrique de Fer d’Ougrée (Iron factory of Ougrée). Over the following century there were various mergers and takeovers with other local and regional producers. By 1914 the company was…

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Explore #205: Coke Works, Belgium – May 2017

Explore #4 of the ‘Hot Filth Tour’ We rounded off a great first day by having a late afternoon mooch around the remains of this derelict coke works. I’d spotted these intruiging looking buildings a couple of years previously when exploring The Blue Power Plant, but we had a Eurotunnel to catch so hadn’t time to investigate further. We began by having a nose inside this very dusty water tower… The light was a nightmare – either too dark to…

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** Bonus Post ** HMS Victory, Portsmouth – December 2015

Okay, so this doesn’t count as a ‘proper’ explore, but it was too fun an experience to leave completely unreported! After exploring Leybourne Grange Manor my usual partner in serial trespass James and I made our way down to Portsmouth, with an early morning explore planned for the next day. Arriving late afternoon and driving past the docks area, we thought we would stop off and see whether we could negotiate a quick look at the outside of HMS Victory without having…

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