Legs and Borders

Lots of fantastic sites seen on this rather spontaneous trip [erm, primarily a trip to Wales, heh]. all places visited with: Day Of The Dead, Keïteï and Subversive. Day 1 So we are queuing for the ferry down to France, and who can we see queuing next to us?! Sx-riffraff and his crew! heh, we did Belgium Road Trip together last year.. that's completely unscheduled meet up, i love random encounters, bizarre, random meetings :) Crachoir Swimming Pool After a fail in an abandoned house (which wasn't quite abandoned and we opened the door to meet a very angry lady and her dog, lol) we headed for this swimming pool. Build in 1915, with lot's of eye catching details. Cite du Dragon Stop number two, an abandoned Chinese restaurant, unfortunately smashed to bits. Chambre du Commerce Famous CDC, there's some work going on here atm, floor has been all stripped down, and there's lot's of random junk lying aroun...

Huge abandoned power station with a funky cooling tower in Belgium, spend a night here with unaware security blowing headlights of their car towards our room every few hours, so didn't have much sleep - advice to self for the next time - arrive early and find a proper place to stay over. visited with: Day Of The Dead, Keïteï and Subversive. Power Station Cooling Tower

My first and hopefully not last visit to the Steel City, very positively surprised by it, one day trip turned out to be pretty epic experience, we managed to visit 3 out of 4 planned locations. all locations visited with: Keïteï, Subversive Photography, TrankmasT and Sammydoublewhammy . Firth Vickers Stainless Steels First stop on our trip, quite easy access and good chilled explore, met the best security guard on the way out, who officially allowed and encouraged us to go ahead and explore :) big thumb up. Firth Vickers were a major name in Sheffield's steel empire, and perhaps best known for the invention of Stainless steel in 1912. They branded this 'Staybrite' which gives this works its name. Firth Brown Steels was initially formed in 1902, when Sheffield steelmakers John Brown and Company exchanged shares and came to a working agreement with neighbouring company Thomas Firth & Sons. In 1908 the two companies came together and esta...