Abandoned theme park revisited

Four months since we last visited and we were in the area so decided to take a quick look round to see what was left of this place. Didn't really expect anything left but it hadn't changed much in four months.
 

 

 

There were a few more brambles growing in the Dragon ride tracks and sadly, the Dragon carriages had gone. Nature was trying to gain back control.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mini golf was off. Fungi spotting was on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We headed up towards the roller coaster. Surprisingly, it was still there but at this point, our fun was spoilt by the presence of a security guard, patrolling the site in a car. Time for a swift exit and another venue to explore.

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

So we left before we got the boot . . .

 

 

Death of a theme park . . .

 

Abandoned Power Station

I visited this power station in December 2012 but have only just started blogging so please bear with me. This was my first Urbex Adventure, and I was accompanied by 2 experienced Urbexers.
It was a bitterly cold, bleak day in Lancashire. We were the only visitors (mad enough!) to be there.

 

 Huncoat Power Station was opened in 1956.

The Power Station had a fairly short life and closed in 1984. The cooling towers were demolished in 1988 and the main buildings followed suit in 1990 leaving this one building behind.

The building is really grotty inside. It's basically just a shell with ever-changing graffiti.

 

There is an upstairs, with more of the same. There is a good view of the main "room" from up above as well as a view of the bleak Lancashire landscape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The graffiti was the best part of the building for me. I like the idea that this is ever-changing and a visit a few months later will show completely different graff.

 

 

This was my favourite graffiti.

 

 

 

 

 

                                            Most of it is like a really awful building site.

 

Peeling paint on the walls in vibrant colours.

 

We had a little wander outside, round the back and I discovered this fab bit of graffiti of Tony the Tiger (of Frosties fame) smiling down at me.

 

 

The windows are all open to the elements so there are puddles everywhere.

 

 

 

Somebody had left behind their boot . . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bus Graveyard

This place is weird! I would never have found it without my Urbex friend who had stumbled upon it on a walk one afternoon. A local farmer, who owns the land, has decided for some reason, to let old buses come to rust and decay in a rather muddy, barren field, somewhere near Westhoughton.

 

We had been warned that the owner had a vicious dog, which made us rather nervous, but luckily, neither dog nor owner were to be seen on this wet and windy afternoon that we chose to have a mooch.

 

As usual, nature is taking over, with one of the buses almost completely overgrown with brambles and various undergrowth.

There is also a range of random, rusting farm machinery lying around. The weather was so blustery that we quickly took our shots and left, relieved not to have met the owner or his dog!

 

Horwich works was built on 142 hectares of land bought in April 1884 for £36,000.
The site is now an industrial estate, appropriately named "Horwich Loco", with most of the buildings still in use. We popped in on the off-chance, not expecting to see much. It was easy access onto the site by car. We immediately spotted an interesting looking building, with the obligatory broken windows.

 

 

We got a glimpse inside through an broken window and it looked well worth a visit but alas, we could not find a way in!

 

We wandered further round to take some more photographs when one of the workers came out of his building to ask us "Who are you representing?" We explained our unusual hobby and he seemed happy that we were just looking round, taking photographs and started chatting to us about how he had served his apprenticeship here in 1976 and now the place was going to soon be abandoned with the land being sold to build houses on.