UK Explorer

16/12/2023

Derelict care home. I don't think this place had closed down that long ago, the rooms were still full of the residents possessions, I hope family members were able to retrieve the belongings of their loved ones who once lived here.

07/12/2023

Probably one of the most random explores I've found whilst being out and about. This is an abandoned cattle market and an old bus station. Not much to see but here's a few pics.

05/12/2023

Some mine pics from last years explores. (Part 2) Hope you enjoy the pics. 📸

02/12/2023

Some mine pics from last years explores. Hope you enjoy the pics. 📸

26/11/2023

This big house was a former care home for mental health patients, not sure how long it has been sat derelict for. I would imagine it was once a very beautiful home. Such a shame to see it left to rot, nature is slowly creeping in to the house.

23/11/2023

The murder hotel

20/11/2023

Little farm house, not a great deal of info on this place. Hope you enjoy the pics.😁📸

11/11/2023

10/11/2023

Robertson House/Treloar Hospital

Sir William Purdie Treloar, a previous Lord Mayor of London and a long campaigner on behalf of crippled children, formed the ‘Lord Mayor Treloar’s Cripple’s Home and College Trust’, which acquired the former Army hospital in 1907.

It was to be used as a hospital to treat children of both sexes up to the age of 12 who were suffering from tuberculosis disease of the bones or joints.

The associated College aimed to provide ‘technical instruction to cripple boys of 14 years of age and upwards, to enable them to earn their own living’.

This institution was opened on 8 September 1908, and within a few years children were arriving from all over the country.

The hospital was fortunate to have its own railway platform on the Alton – Basingstoke branch line known as Alton Park.

The original hutted hospital was partly rebuilt between 1929 and 1937 and until the early 1950's the hospital and college facilities were side by side.
The Hospital was taken over by the National Health Service in 1948 and the College acquired a site at Froyle Place, moving there in 1953.

The Florence Treloar School for Girls was opened at Holybourne in 1965.
In 1978 the boy’s college at Froyle and the Florence Treloar School for girls were amalgamated to provide a co-educational establishment called Lord Mayor Treloar College, with the Lower School at Froyle and the Upper School at Holybourne.

In 1995 the Froyle site became the Lord Mayor Treloar School, whilst the Holybourne site became a National Specialist College for Further Education. Both parts of Treloars are now at Holybourne and the Froyle site has been sold.

The Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital in Chawton Park Road was threatened with closure in the 1970s, but survived to serve the community until 1994.

01/11/2023

Abandoned restaurant and vineyard. it's been abandoned for many years. The building had been trashed and also rain was getting in everywhere so its pretty much all collapsed now. I would imagine it was once a beautiful restaurant. Hope you enjoy the pics. 😁

21/10/2023

Old factory buildings that were used until 2001 by a transducer and switch manufacturers for the automotive industry. Theres not a great deal left of the place but I hope you enjoy the pics. 😀 📷

16/10/2023

Abandoned house with a few old cars left to rot.
Hope you all enjoy the pics 📸 😁

28/09/2023

Abandoned farm house.
Video link below:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=511611970213430&id=109394917906732&sfnsn=mo

Henry and Irene lived in the property where their son and daughter, Philip and Moira were born.
Although the two children grew up, married and moved out, it appears their parents never put away any of their children's old things, you can still find babies cribs, children's clothes, books and toys on the second floor.
After Philip and Moira left (seemingly by some time around the mid 1970s) their parents continued to live there, the decorations and furniture still stuck pretty firmly in the 1950's/60's.
However, in 1994, Henry died. Following this it appears his wife Irene left the house as it was, moved in to a bungalow next door, boarded up the old place and refused to allow anyone to touch it right up until she died in 2016.
By this time her daughter Moira had also passed away leaving only Philip the only living member of the family and heir to the home. (From talking to the neighbour it seems Philip has no children to pass the house on to.) Philip apparently doesn't want anything to do with the house and has left it to rot until the time comes when it will eventually be demolished.

26/09/2023

The Quarry started it's life in the hands a stone company but when quarrying finished it was put to a new use by the Agaric Mushroom company as a mushroom farm. With it's constant temperature and dark conditions it is the perfect location for mushroom growth.

In 1939 the War Department requisitioned the quarry, carried out some strengthening work and used the quarry to store naval anti-aircraft parts, radio direction finding equipment and optical equipment during the Second World War.

After the war the quarry was handed back to the mushroom company, this was because the roof level was to low in places making it unsuitable for military use plus a near-by Quarry was big enough for the Royal Navy's storage needs by this time.

The quarry was soon put back to use as a mushroom farm until it closed in September 2010.

Following the closure of the mushroom farm the mine was used by criminals to illegally grow a staggering amount of cannabis.

25/09/2023

This beautiful tin church. Erected in the 1890's entirely from corrugated metal and wood. It become grade 2 listed after 100 years of it standing.
It was sold in the 1970's and converted in to a one bed home.
The property was sold earlier this year to a young couple who plan on making this place in to a beautiful home.

24/09/2023

The corsa house.
We explored this place 2 years ago.
Very little known about this house I believe it was some sort of refuge, not really sure why it was abandoned. The house was stacked up with people's belongings that have been left behind. There was also police tape round the back of the house that had been ripped off.

11/09/2023

I explored this house in Poole, Dorset a while ago, it has since been demolished and new flats have now been built on the land.

31/08/2023

Abandoned house, now demolished to make way for new flats that will be built on the land. This house had been empty for while, I would imagine the owner was offered a nice sum of money to give up the house.

26/08/2023

Beryl's bungalow.
I imagine this was once a very well kept home, it is clear that beryl liked collecting special ornaments and glasses etc.. was a shame to see local kids had been in smashing things and ransacking through her personal belongings. The bungalow has been sold to developers who have since demolished the bungalow.

18/08/2023

The earliest fabric in the church dates from the early 11th century.

The church originally served a village which has subsequently been deserted.

Between the 17th and 19th centuries, the estate was owned by Roman Catholic families, and was used to hide recusant priests.

The church trust has since saved the church.

11/08/2023

The Horse man's house.
This place was amazing, so many beautiful things.
(Pics were taken 2 years ago). This place is now sealed.
Hope you enjoy the pics. ✌😀

04/08/2023

The tiny chapel.

This is the smallest Chapel I've been in, it was built by Paul who purchased 10 acres of woodland in the early 1970's.

It took 2 years to build from donations of stone he had acquired, Paul built this in his spare time and by hand.

The shrine opened around the1980's, there is a plaque above the altar in the chapel that was dedicated to Pauls wife who died in the late 1990's.

It’s hidden in the vast woods in a slight state of decay, hopefully one day someone will save it.
Pictures are from my visit 2 years ago.

31/07/2023

The Wieliczka Salt Mine, is a salt mine in the town of Wieliczka, near Kraków in southern Poland.

From Neolithic times, sodium chloride (table salt) was produced there from the upwelling brine. The Wieliczka salt mine, excavated from the 13th century, produced table salt continuously until 2007, as one of the world's oldest operating salt mines. Throughout its history, the royal salt mine was operated by the Żupy Krakowskie (Kraków Salt Mines) company.

Due to falling salt prices and mine flooding, commercial salt mining was discontinued in 1996.

The Wieliczka Salt Mine is now an official Polish Historic Monument (Pomnik Historii) and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its attractions include the shafts and labyrinthine passageways, displays of historic salt-mining technology, an underground lake, four chapels and numerous statues carved by miners out of the rock salt, and more recent sculptures by contemporary artists.

27/07/2023

Throop Mill stands on the site of older watermills. One was recorded there in the Domesday survey of 1086.

The mill was operated by various businesses over its long history, including producers of 'hardtack', or ships biscuits. These rock-hard biscuits, made with flour, water and salt, were the staple diet of Tudor sailors on long voyages.

The Mill is a sizeable building and four storeys high. It is a traditional water mill being fed by a mill stream tapped off the main River Stour. There is a single chamber through which the water flowed. The original turbine is now sat rusting away in the middle of the lawn immediately in front of the mill.

Unfortunately no access for inside pics much to my disappointment.

26/07/2023

Wetsbury House

In it's time, it has been a family home, a school, a care home, and the location of a data breach

The house currently standing today was built in 1904 after a fire destroyed the original house. Before the blaze, the manor of Westbury was passed through different wealthy and notorious families.

In the mid-1800s, opera singer Adelaide Sartoris and her husband Edward lived in the home.

Twenty years after the fire, in 1924, the home re-opened as a boys’ preparatory school. Despite investing in the school in a bid to deliver a first class education, it would be closed in the 1970s.

In 1982, the home was first opened as a Westbury House Nursing Home.

However, by 2016 the services offered by Westbury House were deemed 'inadequate' by the Care Quality Commission.

In the 2016 report, the CQC wrote that the care home "posed a significant threat to people's health and well being and we were not assured that people were receiving safe and effective care from sufficient numbers of suitably trained staff."

The regulator found that residents were not sufficiently cared for and potential abuse had not been reported.

Following the final report in July 2016, the care home was shut down and abandoned.

While the building was left to become derelict and rundown, the site became home to another scandal.

It became clear that files and paperwork had not been cleared from the property which resulted in a huge data breach.

Now the owner of the property, Dr Usha Naqvi, has submitted a pre-planning application to the South Downs National Park local authority.

The plans submitted show the intention to demolish the former care home to build 10 new dwellings on the site.

In the consultation response, the former care home is said to be in a "dilapidated state beyond viable restoration" because the home wasn't secured from external weather

No one has commented on the pre-planning application so it remains unknown whether this new plan would be welcomed by the public.

However, in the response written by the council, they write that "considerable efforts" will be needed to develop the application and officers have encouraged the owner not to submit the plans as they currently stand.

Here's the link to the live video: https://www.facebook.com/ukexplorerfb/videos/178779337517326/

20/07/2023

Old war bunker pre 1940's, I explored this 2 years ago, it has now been sealed up. I believe it was originally built to hold up to 300 children from the nearby school.
Hope you enjoy the pics.😁

Here is the link for the video: https://www.facebook.com/ukexplorerfb/videos/1005464629858133

15/07/2023

Greek temple, Built around 1790, the surviving frontage stands on a deep plinth of stone rubble with three steps up and six ashlar Greek Doric columns surmounted by an entablature with pediment and triglyph frieze.

14/07/2023

TRUTH nightclub (Bournemouth)
I did this explore a couple of years ago, it was totally trashed after groups of kids had been in there. The place has since been demolished.
The link to the video is in the comments.

28/06/2023

This big manor house is grade II listed, it was so big I've had to upload these pics as 2 albums. (This is album 2) the link for the first album is at the bottom. The house had 3 kitchens and 3 bathrooms there was also 2 lounge areas and many bedrooms. There was some lovely items left behind it's such a shame to see some of them decaying. I am not posting external pics as I don't want to see this place getting any further damage or ransacked.

Album 1
https://www.facebook.com/100066774072247/posts/606606901575107/?app=fbl

26/06/2023

This big manor house is grade II listed, it was so big I've had to upload these pics as 2 albums. (This is album 1) album 2 will be uploaded tomorrow. The house had 3 kitchens and 3 bathrooms there was also 2 lounge areas and many bedrooms. There was some lovely items left behind it's such a shame to see some of them decaying. I am not posting external pics as I don't want to see this place getting any further damage or ransacked.

22/06/2023

(Part 2 of pics.)

Here is the link for Part 1.
https://www.facebook.com/100066774072247/posts/598865909015873/?app=fbl

Former chilled food factory where about 400 people were employed. The site is about 126 years old and closed for business in 2018.

The developer met with council representatives in November 2020, with a number of possible changes to the proposals being discussed - including the retention of the Mill and the Creamery buildings, and providing more employment and community facilites within the site.

Amended proposals were published on the council's planning portal in mid-March, with the developer making a number of modifications.

Under the new proposals, the number of homes planned for the site has been reduced from 129 to 106 - of which 32 will be affordable.

The Mill building - which dates back to the 1860s - will be retained and renovated to provide either a community venue (such as a village hall) or employment units, with 30 new parking spaces being provided nearby.

A spokesman said: "Following comments received from the council and the public, it is proposed to seek the retention of the Mill, which it is considered can be sensitively renovated and brought back into beneficial use.

Works would look to demolish the later additions, and retain and reinstate the building’s original features, with a contemporary and industrial internal fit out which reflects the building’s industrial past.

11/06/2023

(Part 1 of pics.)

Former chilled food factory where about 400 people were employed. The site is about 126 years old and closed for business in 2018.

The developer met with council representatives in November 2020, with a number of possible changes to the proposals being discussed - including the retention of the Mill and the Creamery buildings, and providing more employment and community facilites within the site.

Amended proposals were published on the council's planning portal in mid-March, with the developer making a number of modifications.

Under the new proposals, the number of homes planned for the site has been reduced from 129 to 106 - of which 32 will be affordable.

The Mill building - which dates back to the 1860s - will be retained and renovated to provide either a community venue (such as a village hall) or employment units, with 30 new parking spaces being provided nearby.

A spokesman said: "Following comments received from the council and the public, it is proposed to seek the retention of the Mill, which it is considered can be sensitively renovated and brought back into beneficial use.

Works would look to demolish the later additions, and retain and reinstate the building’s original features, with a contemporary and industrial internal fit out which reflects the building’s industrial past.

05/06/2023

Old farm house, that has been left to decay for years.

26/05/2023

The Old Rock pub. It was renamed in December 2016, formerly Chequers. Looks like it's been closed for a few years. The pics are about a year old, the place is now trashed.

24/05/2023

This medieval grade II listed church was completely rebuilt c.1860 but incorporates some re-used 12thc fragments, presumably from that church. It comprises a chancel, nave, N and S transepts and a S tower with spire over a porch.

The chancel arch has been much rebuilt and also probably widened. It is of one order with a roll-moulding surmounted by a chevron-patterned hood-moulding to either face, set off chamfered abaci. Some original stones survive to the S reveal, which have vertical rough tooth-chiselled tooling.

The church was formerly used by a school. The abandoned church is presently redundant and rapidly falling into disrepair.

23/05/2023

Former prison officers blocks and houses.
The 2 big blocks are grade ll listed since September 1978.
Built in 1877-1878 the officers mess included a kitchen, billiard rooms and living quarters.
The houses previously married quarters, were in a poor state and have been stood empty for about 40 years.

22/05/2023

Margaret's house. We found this place tucked away in the countryside 2 years ago, it looked like it had been derelict for about 20 years.

16/05/2023

This derelict house was evacuated in 2014 due to a landslide behind it, several other houses on the road were also evacuated. Since then it has sat empty, it looks as if homeless people have also been staying here at some point.

13/05/2023

This abandoned shop has been left empty for decades.

It used to be full of wonderful items but they have slowly disappeared.
The roof on part of the building has collapsed and is now in quite a bad state of repair.

Planning Enforcement and Housing are currently aware of the poor state of the property which has been stuck in probate since the last owner passed away.

Housing were involved in long term discussions with the current owner about the future plans for the building.

05/05/2023

This house had been derelict for a few years. It was in a bad state of decay. It is now having work done on the property so hopefully this one will be restored to its former glory. Hope you enjoy the pics.