There is more to urban exploration than taking a walk in the city.
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You can always find old places to explore by looking at old postcards of the area. Try the local library, ask the local historical society or… check eBay shops. If you find one from your general location get the date and (if you can) take the original or a copy with you to compare now with then.
If you take a photograph with the old postcard fitting in place of the scene around it, you will be into rephotography.
Do you use Google Maps, the street view, to explore places you hear about but can not travel to? I think it’s wonderful as a way to not only research the location but to see if it is still there, in an actual photo rather than a news story or personal photos which may have been taken 10 years ago.
These pictures are of E. Edwards, the building which was shown as a funeral parlour in the UK version of Being Human. The location is Bristol. I have been watching Being Human today on Netflix and I wanted to see if this was a real place or just created for the TV show. It is a real place, but the real name on the building is E. Edwards (not B. Edwards as it appears on the show) and the real place is not a funeral parlour but an auto shop.
I’m still looking for some history of the place, I’d like to know who E. Edwards was for one thing.
I love the design of the stonework, the scrolling. The details of the other sculpture on the building too, at the doors and along the rooftop.
This photo and the information I found which gave me the address for the building was on the site for the Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society (BIAS).
Flickr Groups:
Flickr: Kolmanskop
Encounter South Africa: Kolmanskop, Ghost Town in the Desert
Griot Photo: Diamonds to Dust: The ghost town of Kolmannskuppe
Ghost Town Tours
Wikipedia: Kolmanskop
Wikipedia: Elizabeth Bay, Nambia
Flickr: Abandoned Baltic. – Only pictures, where decay speaks in it’s own way. Pictures must be taken in Baltic States – Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia.
Flickr: Urbex behind the Iron Curtain –
Canada
| Urban Exploration Resource – Avatar-X |
Infiltration – Ninjalicious (RIP) |
| Urban Exploration Montreal – Tux et. al |
The Vanishing Point – Kowalski |
| Ontario Abandoned Places | UrbEx Barrie – CopySix |
| ExBORation – Bryan |
Desolation UE – Brind |
| Consumer Gods – Boffo |
urbex.mikeonline.ca – Photoseeker |
| Angels of the Underground – AotU |
To Hell And Back – terapr0 |
| Section 6 – HI-LITE |
International
| Urban Exploration Webring | Underground Ozarks – White Rabbit |
| Urban Exploration Alaska – Freak |
Hours of Darkness |
| Cave Clan Australia – Cave Clan |
Sleepy City – dsankt |
| SubStreet – Glass |
Urban Glow – Siologen |
| Opacity – Motts |
No Promise Of Safety – uLiveAndYouBurn |