Urban Exploration

[Darkcrawl]

I guess 'Home Therapy' is the best place for this, I drive past an abandonned building (well, it's actually a mansion with the roof missing) on my way to work with a fence and warning signs around it. My father and grandmother, having lived here all their lives, told me it was abandonned 6-8 years ago and since then has had a fire which took the roof off.
It's basically an old victorian (?) mansion.
What I want to know is.....do I go and hop the fence (with barbed wire) and have a look around, take some pics, etc. and maybe listen to some Axis... or do I carry on being a wuss, largely due to the fact the place is rotting and probably unsafe, plus I'd possibly have to vault barbed wire?

Answers on a postcard, please.....

[searinglight]

Jump... shoot.. listen... absorb.

Through said time shalt your mind crawl with the denizens of the past that once were there.

[Brooke]

external pictures would be nice however please dont risk your neck on our behalf if its in that much of a state of dilapidation.

[Darkcrawl]

Well I don't really know but I wouldn't go climbing over crumbling floors with gaping holes if that is what you mean. I'll get a few of the outside, definately. Apparently, someone put in planning permission recently, I don't know what they can do as it WAS a Grade 2 listed building. Oh well, I'll get the pics soonish.
If there even so much as shows a hint of barb wire fence...I'll get outside pics and then run away screaming like a girl....just for effect.

News Flash: According to my esteemed father, an invasion by Urban Explorers has already taken place and pictures are on the net. I'll get him to find me the link.

[Mat L]

Bribe a tramp into doing it for you...tramps will do anything for a bottle of alcohol....man that was one crazy yom kippur.

[Darkcrawl]

Here's a link, this is the place:

www.abandonedpast.co.uk/index.cfm?sid=6605&pid=101189&item=7743

There are a number of other places on this guys site near me too. I'll have to see if the others are still there but on www.abandonedpast.co.uk, it's 'Tangley Place'.