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Road Trip - Birmingham

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Title should be really 'around Birmingham' as we didn't make any locations inside the city, we visited eight of them. Big thanks to Happyshopper for the guided tour and a place to stay over night, Subversive for driving and Keïteï for joining in :) stop number 1, St Johns Asylum . Some unforgettable corridors and stairs in here. stop number 2, Sleaford Bass Maltings . Designed specifically to facilitate three key stages in the production of beer, the Sleaford Bass Maltings represent both a practical and architecturally pleasing group of buildings. We have seen this location mostly from above as the buildings are sealed and/or empty. stop number 3, RAF Stanigot . It was a World War II radar station situated at Stenigot, Lincolnshire. It was part of the Chain Home radar network, intended to provide long range early warning for raids from Luftflotte V and the northern elements of Luftflotte II along the approaches to Sheffield ...