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I was working in Ruthin and it would have been poor form not to drop in and visit the old girl Pool Park has always been about that staircase and with good reason, it's stunning :mrgreen: On with the pics

History borrowed: Cwm Coke’s origins lie with the Great Western Railway and it’s insatiable hunger for coal. The GWR sunk pits at the Cwm site in 1909 as well as in other areas of the Rhondda, but Cwm didn’t become known for it’s coke until 1958 when the coking ovens...

The site is now home to sheep, lots and lots of sheep I have a strong dislike for farm animals unless they are fried and between slices of bread The only good sheep

Sadly I didn't see the living legend that is Elwyn but I did hear someone walking around outside with what sounded like a rather large dog going from the barking. I had one job on for the day that was in Ruthin and as the only other thing that is nearby is Pool Park and I was in there a month...

2013: I believe bastards and thieves have driven this place further into the ground :mad: :mad: :mad: 2011: So kicking off a few urbexes with another epic Welsh adventure with the mrs. Set in the lovely valleys of North Wales, Pool Park is a lovely mooch. We spent a good few hours in here...

2013: I don't think this derp has had any more splores posted. 2010: No info really on this place, except it had 17 en suite bedrooms, all with colour tv, tea and coffee making facilities, and did conferencing. Still has half full barrells of cider and beer. Place is trashed to high heaven...

2013: Was in a sorry state in 2011, can't be any good now :( 2010: So, another holiday in Wales with the girlfreind. Finally now got enough to take a few photos, so this is a mix of July and September 2010. Boy had this place gone down hill in two months :( . Place shut in 1999, and...

i was here a few weeks ago and never saw the bearded one, the main building has been stripped and all the floors removed. i don't know when it happened but i hadn't seen anything on it! so was a little gutted but on with the photos stripped main building off the silo roof

Another instalment and the last site visited on Scattergun's and mine's Englandshire trip. Too end the trip we spent the night with BadBatz (cheers for putting us up again dude) and hit the road early to pick up AltDayOut and to visit the Welsh Sugar Asylum, this was the last stop on our...

One of the first places I ever went many moons ago. Cefn Glas (also known as Quakers Yard) Tunnel carried the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford Railway which was absorbed into the Great Western’s empire in 1863, a year before the line opened. The route made...

Thought I'd post my old stuff up seeing as Nelly promised to post me a greggs pasty in return.

The North Wales Lunatic Asylum was the first psychiatric institution built in Wales; construction began in 1844 and completed in 1848 in the town of Denbigh. The roof has been made safe supposedly to prevent further weather damage.After exploring it,the wife told me she still preferred...

To some,this will be quite bland as an explore,but for me,my job involves working in and around social housing schemes,and when I heard about Billy Banks,I had to see it. This estate was an award winning project in the early 60`s,but in the late 80`s began to decline,and by 2002,most of the...

History has been done (but not to death ) bet I could find out stuff what has not been posted but after 18 hrs up in the sheep country my head has gone west !.....on with the pics...

Hello All, Well this is my first post on here so I hope it meets your high standards. Will probably be a few errors but all a learning curve. Im only using a digital camera havent got one of those smart ones yet unfortunately so hope the quality is ok for you. We explored a little hotel in...

On our way up to a rally on the Epynt Ranges (yeah, the one with the Toyota Sunbeam crash - we saw it happen and actually helped the driver (Darren Pool) out of the car), Hood_mad spotted this ROC post up on a small rise on the outskirts of Sennybridge. We parked the evo up and wandered over to...

Following on from our visit HERE, we though we'd pop by and see how the demolition was getting on. CS has done a good write-up on the history side of things, so I'll leave that be and let the pictures speak. Present on this visit was myself, Hood_mad and Lola. Valet parking. (yeah the evo got...

Visited with hood_mad and guided round by captain slow. I've wanted to do this for ages because it's basically right on my doorstep. The history has been done many times before, so I'll just add my photos to the list. :D The main room. Strip light. Backup light. Gauge. Air vent...

That was an awesome explore, had some fun until the scum turned up. Here's some of mine, bear in mind it was getting dark whilst we were there so the pics are poor. Bible found under the floor Hood_mad going up the bell tower Looking down Up to the second floor Me on...

i have some family in wales and went for a weekend away met this band in a town called caerphilly. i wasnt really into this sort of music, until i saw it and heard it live, what a buzz! check them out. http://www.myspace.com/bluetraffic