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Stover Park (Ilford Park)

3rd July 2020 urbanexboi 0

Stover Park camp as its known is one of 45 camps/hostels ran by the National Assistance Board catering for the needs of displaced Polish people who survived the war the traumas of deportations into the […]

Sandhill Park Asylum

3rd July 2020 urbanexboi 0

“On a wet miserable day we decide to visit Sandhill Park Asylum .. this for me was a bit of a disappointment as it looked like the local chav’s have gotten in and destroyed everything. […]

West Park Hospital

3rd July 2020 urbanexboi 0

West Park Hospital built by London County Council during the years 1913-1924 and officially opens on 20 June 1924. It provided for 2096 patients and is the last hospital in the programme to establish five […]

China Clay Cornwall

2nd July 2020 urbanexboi 0

Entering China Clay Cornwall involves a lot of climbing providing a lot of laughs all round. Work seems to have stopped while the new facility next door roars on China clay, or kaolin, was first […]

Bourton Mill

10th May 2020 urbanexboi 0

Bourton Mill used to process wet foods and turn them into powder such as milk. we took a good look around and even found the machines that dried the goods into a fine powder. you […]

Tone Mill

20th April 2020 urbanexboi 0

Out of 2 explores we had planned Tone Mill was the 1st on our list. We climb through a hole and what was on the other side amazed us all on the other side was […]

Palace Hotel Torquay

17th April 2020 urbanexboi 0

The Palace Hotel Torquay created in the 1920s from a villa built for the Bishop of Exeter . In 1921 the building is purchased by George Hands who was at the time a Birmingham Industrialist who […]

Penhale Camp

22nd March 2020 urbanexboi 2

Penhale Camp, near Holywell Bay about six miles outside of Newquay originally developed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 1939 as an emergency measure to train anti-aircraft gunners. Evidence of the gun sites, searchlight […]

Millennium Nightclub

21st March 2020 urbanexboi 0

The Gaumont Palace (Millennium Nightclub) in Union Street, Plymouth, opened in 1931. fluted columns and tiled foyers immediately attract attention whilst inside the auditorium a mighty Compton organ sits at a cost of over £6,000. […]

Dance Academy

21st March 2020 urbanexboi 0

The Palace Theater (Dance Academy) on Union Street, Plymouth for the Livermore Brothers in 1898 by the architects Wimperis and Arber as a Music Hall and Variety Theater and formed part of a development which […]