Being in England, clear night skies are a gift rarely bestowed upon us by the gods. So when one does roll along you’d be a fool not to snap up the chance to do something. Since we’ve already visited a large majority of the “good” towers in London, we decided to go back to the [...]
| While Chessington is not abandoned, it was closed for the season, many of the rides being removed for relocation to Thorpe Park. We were bored, so decided why not, we had nothing else to do. Another of the ”UE” Holy Grails, the Rover Longbridge car factory, fully intact, stocked to the brim, ready to roll at the flick of a switch. In the five years since exploring Longbridge, now hanging on its last thread, predominantly demolished, no other location has come close to its sheer size, history or adventure. Longbridge [...] If you live in London, you’ve heard of the Millennium Dome, that failed tourist attraction on the north tip of the Greenwich Peninsula, constructed to celebrate the coming of the 21st century. I visited it once as a child, and apart from the main event, which i actually enjoyed, the rest was art faggotry at [...] Pleasureland, the amusement park on the sands. Located in Southport, which if you don’t know is in the north of England. Pleasureland had closed for the winter season, but due to costs of maintenance and the fact it was little used it would never reopen. Until 2008 there was a campaign to save the parks [...] Even today, this still remains one of the most unique and adventurous locations Ive ever had the privilege of accessing, the result of a stupid gamble that could have left us adrift in the north sea. Everyone knows what an oil-rig looks like, those ominous floating hulks of metal, towed out to sea to drill [...] |
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