Norfolk – Page 8

Explore #6: Dereham Maltings (Crisp Malting Group), Dereham, Norfolk – September 2013

September 18, 2013

Industrial & Commercial Sites, United Kingdom

What better way to spend a glorious sunny afternoon with your wife than by crawling around in truly industrial quantities of spider webs and pigeon crap in the almost-to-total pitch black. Despite having our P3 masks firmly on throughout, I don’t think I’ll forget the less than pleasant atmosphere for a while. I also managed to gash my wrist on some broken glass right at the start of the explore. With the first aid kit in the car, and my…

Explore #5: Tuberculosis Hospital, Mundesley, Norfolk – September 2013

September 12, 2013

Adam X

Hospitals & Asylums, United Kingdom

Unfortunately we didn’t manage to gain access inside the hospital building, and did see evidence of VERY recent new boarding in a couple of locations which may, or may not, have had a bearing on us failing where others have fairly recently succeeded. We did, however, get some exterior shots of what is a beautiful building, together with a few from a very decrepit shack up in the woods to the rear of the main building, featuring Laurence LLewelyn Bowen…

Explore #4: Gas Holder, Norwich, Norfolk – September 2013

September 9, 2013

Adam X

Industrial & Commercial Sites, United Kingdom

This was a local explore with friend and fellow photography enthusiast Mr EOV. We hadn’t done much of a recce of access to the site in advance, other than a drive by which had confirmed 8 ft+ palisade fencing. Unfortunately we did this explore on a “school night” (i.e. a weekday evening), and by the time we arrived it was no longer the early dusk for which we had been planning, but pretty much dark. Getting in and out of the site…