Swift Urban Exploration

25/12/2024

Happy Christmas to everyone i hope you all have the best holiday period.
Thankyou for all the support this year.
I'll be back out in 2025 for more crazy adventures ✌️✌️

20/12/2024

The Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Dieeases.

The hospital was founded in 1738 as a general hospital for the poor in the city centre, where the frontage of its building still reads Royal Mineral Water Hospital. Thus it is known locally as "The Mineral Hospital" or "The Min". The hospital moved to a new building at the RUH site in 2019

The historic city centre site at Upper Borough Walls was offered for sale by the RUH Trust in 2017. It was bought by Versant Developments & Homes of Wi******er, who sold it to Singapore-based Fragrance Group in January 2018 for £21.5M. Fragrance Group, which owns other historic hotels in England, obtained planning permission in July 2021 to convert the building into a 160-bed hotel by removing 20th-century additions and building an extension, while protecting Roman features

15/12/2024

I'm back out later tonight looking for those crazy places.....
I may go live dependant on signal ✌️

08/12/2024

This wasn't the explore we was expecting aimed for a nightclub ended up in offices

SEQOL formally requested to end their contract ahead of schedule, due to their “challenging financial position and workforce challenges”.
This was announced after the local hospital decided it would take over the running of adult community health services from SEQOL. This came after SEQOL was given 12 months’ notice on their contract earlier this year and a tendering process was launched to identify a suitable alternative provider.

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I've released a video of the explore here :

https://youtu.be/taJ2YtQC-0I?si=jK00punbZznBiu9I

07/12/2024

Hey everyone.... due to the weather round here I'm not heading out this weekend, but here's a video from one of my recent posts and I have a post edited ready for posting tomorrow.
Stay safe out there wherever you are and normal service should be resumed next week ✌️✌️

I live fairly close to this house and was aware of 2 cars having crashed through it, looking at the history it's had at least 4 incidents in the last two yea...

04/12/2024

The Derelict House

I've re-titled this one as fb didn't like it.....

Living in the local area I knew of 2 instances of where cars had misjudged the roundabout leading up to it and ended up through the house, having looked at the history it's had more cars go through it than a mcdonalds drive through.
Although completely empty once inside it was like a step back in time with the decor just with a car shape boarded up frontage 🤣

04/12/2024

Oh dear..... I'm guessing ai doesn't like me anymore 🤦‍♂️🤷🤷

Do me a favour people... go and give some.of my recent posts some love let's prove them wrong 🙏🙏🙏🙏

02/12/2024

One from last night..... Post will be up in a day or so ✌️✌️

01/12/2024

Out tonight for some more crazy abandoned places. Let's see what we find ✌️✌️

30/11/2024

Robertson House - Treloar Hospital

This abandoned hospital was originally built in 1901 using public donations to treat the sick and wounded soldiers from the Boer War. It was named the Princess Louise Hospital. By the time the hospital was ready to officially be used for service in 1903, the Boer War had ended. From 1903 to 1905 the hospital was used by the Royal Army Medical Corps.
In 1907 Sir William Purdie Treloar, the Lord Mayor of London, bought the site for children suffering from tuberculous of the bones and joints. It was in a run down state when first purchased. Treloar set up a fund to finance the development of the hospital. His aim was to build a hospital and school in the country for children with non-pulmonary tuberculosis to rest and gain an education or trade.
Children from all over the country travelled to Treloar for treatment, the hospital even had its own railway station. The children were also encouraged to work on the farms and surrounding grounds.
Between 1974-1987 3,891 people in the UK were infected with Hepatitis B, C and HIV by the medicine Factor VIII imported from the US. Most of those infected were haemophiliacs as Factor VIII was used to help blood clot. During this time, the boys’ school offered specialist care for haemophiliacs. Since the public inquiry into the NHS’ use of contaminated blood products in 2019, former Treloar pupils have given statements in evidence. Financial compensation has since been given to the families of those affected. Estimates suggest that those given infected blood could be as high as 30,000 people.
The site was a functioning hospital until it closed its doors in 1994. This was in-part due to a new Community Hospital being opened in the area.
A new housing estate mainly occupies the site and just Robertson House is left overlooking the new houses.

29/11/2024

The views from here over the town were epic ✌️✌️

28/11/2024

The burnt out school / college building

This Hall was still surprisingly quite impressive.

20/11/2024

Got to love an industrial shot... this must of took some engineering ✌️✌️

16/11/2024

Top Rank / Mecca Bingo Hall Gloucester

This bingo hall was originally the independently operated Plaza Super Cinema which opened in November 1935. In January 1956, it was taken over by Circuits Management Association, which soon became the Rank Organisation. The cinema was modernised and renamed Odeon in January 1957.

The Odeon closed at the end of August 1975 and was later converted to a Top Rank Bingo Club, At some point in the 1990s, the building was then sold to Mecca Bingo, who used it until July 2022 when it closed and has lain dormant ever since.

09/11/2024

We are out this this weekend checking out more abandoned places. Heading out around 1pm today ✌️✌️

25/10/2024

The Abandoned Milk Factory

The original milking parlour was built here in 1872, and the creamery that it developed into was once the largest employer in the town; it grew dramatically throughout the early twentieth century, the site soon developing to incorporate a range of art deco buildings, spread across a large plot of land beside the river.

A railway line had stopped nearby in those early days, which allowed milk bottled here to reach wholesalers in London the very same day – one of the main factors which fuelled the site’s success.
The subsequent closure of the railway line caused the factory to suffer heavily though, and many jobs were lost as the operation was gradually downsized.
At the peak of the redundancies, there were also two suicides at the site – in one dramatic instance a former worker hanged himself from the walkway that connects the two main buildings, high above the access road.

A fire in 1993 rendered the drying tower unusable, but the damage had already been done by this point – it was Margaret Thatcher who hammered the final nail into the coffin, with the decentralisation of milk collection. The creamery struggled through its final decade, finally closing its doors for good in 2006 – along with the loss of over 100 jobs, and a severe knock to the local economy.

Nowadays the site is considered by most locals to be something of an eyesore and is currently in the process of being demolished.

19/10/2024

Abandoned Factory Buildings

19/10/2024

I'm out again tonight guys, between me and Blessy_exploring we have around 6-8 pins to check out from a hospital to a swimming baths and alot in between. Keep an eye on the page after 8pm ✌️✌️