The Empire/Flamingos, MK Leisure Plaza, Milton Keynes - Aug 2013

[Landie_Man]

I heard about this place on The Grapevine, namingly through Northern_Ninja. The Milton Keynes Leisure Plaza was built in 1990 and housed a Bowling Alley (Megabowl), an Ice Rink (Planet Ice, formally Bladerunner), an Argos and a Homebase store and a Nightclub (The Empire, formally Flamingos).

The nightclub closed in 2004 and has set ever since. The Bowling Alley and Ice Rink closed this summer for re-development. It appears the ice rink is being left, but everything else here is being demolished. The Leisure Plaza has been through a lot of changes in the last 23 years but has slowly diminished and development is necessary.

The Nightclub here appeared to have several themed bars and also a café. Expiry dates of 2004 on a box of crisps gave ideas of closure time. For a derpy place, its actually quite picturesque!

I could not find a way into any of the other buildings sadly. I wish I could have done the ice rink, but you never know!

I solo'd this one, and the building made some un-nerving noises in the torrential rain!

More At:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/landie_man/sets/72157635431085507/

 

[Wevsky]

Thats all right that mate..did they not think to clear it before tearing it down

 

[skeleton key]

Nice location and cool pics

defo worth giving the place a diso spin.

The place looks better than my Local.

Cheers for the share



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[Laird Tam]

Awesome Pictures

 

[Nelly]

Thats mad, there must be stuff in there with some good resale value?? Why just demo it with all inside???

Nice report!!

 

[Perjury Saint]

I wasnt expecting much here... But its actually really good!!

 

[seaside_rambler]

Indeed, what a waste to not recycle anything in there! Nice shots, thanks for sharing

 

[Lara]

Brilliant and so different, love it. Thanks, I enjoyed that

 

[Stussy]

Thats fecking awesome, shame its half demo'd there, so much to see, would have been a great derp to have a play around in!

 

[Scattergun]

Doubt there'll be much left of that in a week

 

[urbexosaurus]

Great report and cool pics!

The contrast between the demolition works and all stuff inside is awesome!