The old Zanzibar then later Underground/Sam’s Bar across from The Kierby Hotel.

I bet Howard Carter is sh!tting himself with these two budding archaeologists for competition.

I miss Burnley centre.

arise_sir_charge wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:36 pm

I bet Howard Carter is sh!tting himself with these two budding archaeologists for competition.

"Look at that. Red brick".....

welsbyswife wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:04 pm

"Look at that. Red brick".....

At first, I thought his enthusiasm was from a photography point of view, but he seemed to get excited over the littlest of things thinking he’d ventured upon some ancient relic… When really it looks like the cellar bar of some old nightclub that closed in the mid 2000’s.

They had a phone-signal, I’m sure they could’ve easily established where they were and looked up ‘1990s Burnley’ on Google Images to give themselves some frame of reference.

I’m glad they respected the site though, the fella who sounded like Dean Tavalouris wasn’t for taking anything.

Hope the beggers don't see this, they'll be squatting as the entrance is quite accessible I would have thought.

Doesn't seem that long since the cellar was a bar and definitely too long since Sam's at was open.

I've got a friend who's an urban explorer. He's been in some fascinating places. Usually old hospitals, asylums, army barracks, prisons, hotels. I really enjoy looking at the photos and videos from the expeditions.

groove wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:08 am

I've got a friend who's an urban explorer. He's been in some fascinating places. Usually old hospitals, asylums, army barracks, prisons, hotels. I really enjoy looking at the photos and videos from the expeditions.

I think I know the forum you're talking about. Good photography too.

Loyalclaret wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 7:22 am

Hope the beggers don't see this, they'll be squatting as the entrance is quite accessible I would have thought.

Doesn't seem that long since the cellar was a bar and definitely too long since Sam's at was open.

Yeah we couldn’t have these beggars/homeless people finding somewhere they may be able to shelter and keep warm in these sub zero temperatures.

groove wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:08 am

I've got a friend who's an urban explorer. He's been in some fascinating places. Usually old hospitals, asylums, army barracks, prisons, hotels. I really enjoy looking at the photos and videos from the expeditions.

I'm a bit weird like that as well, I like to see rooms that have stood untouched for decades, imagining what went on years before and why it was suddenly left the way it was etc

Hapag Lloyd wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:22 am

Yeah we couldn’t have these beggars/homeless people finding somewhere they may be able to shelter and keep warm in these sub zero temperatures.

Apologies if that's how it read. I was more concerned about the way that homeless people heat the spaces they shelter in. See the fires in the derelict pubs outside Burnley Central Station recently.

I have no problem with people squatting, infact my parents did it for many years in London, I worry about ventilation and people struggling to get out of a burning cellar with poor access.

Hapag Lloyd wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:22 am

Yeah we couldn’t have these beggars/homeless people finding somewhere they may be able to shelter and keep warm in these sub zero temperatures.

Which beggars/homeless people in Burnley haven’t been offered some form of accommodation?

What is in the old downstairs bit of woolies now? Is it storage for the store above?

Fascinating. I wanted them to try yhe emergency exit!

Hope they turned the strip light off....bills for someone, will be huge, eventually!

Burnley1989 wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:30 am

I'm a bit weird like that as well, I like to see rooms that have stood untouched for decades, imagining what went on years before and why it was suddenly left the way it was etc

I used to have a similar fascination and then when I was 18, working a summer for a mate, he sent me to his old unit in Colne to check things were ok and to see if something was there. Nobody had been in the place for years.

I went in, with another lad, was walking along and suddenly disappeared through the floor and landed 8 foot below in the cellar! My fall was broken by me grabbing bits of the rotten wood that surrounded me as I disappeared!

It was quite funny when we realised I wasn’t dead but rather worrying as I disappeared and had no idea how far away the floor below was

I’m a similar story, a mate of mines dad was an health and safety inspector and one day he was inspecting a business and opened a door into what looked like an empty room, as he stepped forward, he disappeared into a vat of Claret coloured dye! He swam back to the edge and ran for help and was promptly jet washed down in the car park. He never did say whether they passed the inspection.

I seem to remember being told or read somewhere that there is a tunnel from Towneley Hall to river Bruhn (I think?).

Padiham, Albion Mill, bottom of Palmerston Street, used to be WW2 Air Raid shelters.
You had to be little to squeeze through the small hole to get in, had wooden bench all around the perimeter, not sure how much it was used between 39 & 45.

Clovius Boofus wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:15 am

I think I know the forum you're talking about. Good photography too.

28DaysLater is the site I think you refer to. Fascinating stuff in there and the golden rule is “leave stuff for the next guys to see”

Cirrus_Minor wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 5:59 pm

I seem to remember being told or read somewhere that there is a tunnel from Towneley Hall to river Bruhn (I think?).

would be the calder but i think it's a myth.

There is a bricked up tunnel that runs from the old Victoria hospital through to Burnley General Hospital which I understand was to move corpses between the two hospitals. That said, there was a mortuary at the rear of the Victoria Hospital.

yTib wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:55 pm

would be the calder but i think it's a myth.

You would be very surprised at just how much tunnelling was done during the Elizabethan onwards… most of the bigger churches, manor houses, safe houses etc were connected. Historian Phillip Heythornethwaite in The English Civil War (lived in Nelson, if I remember rightly) described East Lancashire as like, North Vietnam of the 1960’s.

Cirrus_Minor wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 5:59 pm

I seem to remember being told or read somewhere that there is a tunnel from Towneley Hall to river Bruhn (I think?).

A lot further. See the above post.

Slightly off topic but is the narrator from Burnley or Manchester? I am usually good with accents and thought he was a Manc, but now I'm not so sure. Being from Accrington I am not a native Burnley speaker!

Just to add I also find 28dayslater stuff fascinating too

Guitargeorge wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 6:17 pm

28DaysLater is the site I think you refer to. Fascinating stuff in there and the golden rule is “leave stuff for the next guys to see”

Yes, that's the site. Good to see that it's still going strong.

elwaclaret wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:25 pm

A lot further. See the above post.

As a kid I spent alot of time at leavers farm which is or was just off red Lees Rd on left going from brunshaw Rd, and there was a tunnel from the farm to towneley Hall, but was blocked off about halfway.

Barlickclaret wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 08, 2022 10:21 am

As a kid I spent alot of time at leavers farm which is or was just off red Lees Rd on left going from brunshaw Rd, and there was a tunnel from the farm to towneley Hall, but was blocked off about halfway.

Yes I’ve heard of a couple of locals in Rossendale who used to use the open cast mines around Water to gain access. Sadly the mining made the tunnels even more unstable… probably why they have never been allowed to be mapped and all the tunnel entrances quietly hidden. My Auntie and Uncle nearly bought a house in the 70’s that was a house inside a house, accessed through the fireplace, with priesthoods dotted around in the ‘house lining’ (and sealed tunnel).

These guys have done some cracking videos. There are some great ones exploring old colliery.

'Urban Explorers' - formerly less affectionately known as tresspassers.

The whole leave only footprints thing demonstrates that the vast majority of the Urbex community don't mean any harm but their actions undoubtedly have very serious and dangerous consequences.