We immediately made our way to the top floor and sat and watched the sunrise through the window.

I forgot, before we go into the building, we had done a recce of the building the previous weekend and found a door that was unlocked and sheltered from the road. This was out point of entrance. Unfortunately, it let down into this basement with no way in to the main building, so we had to go out and walk right to the other side of the place to find another door.

our point of entrance*

Unfortunately most of the place was completely empty. I tried to skip taking photos of empty buildings this time, unless there was something interesting about them. These upper floors were in relatively good condition, but the ground floor was completely fucked. Pikies have been in stripping the place for copper.

Our first target was the roof.

You'll have to forgive me while I spam lots of photos I took from up there.

View of the airport.

We were initially baffled by what all the metal was around the edge of the roof. Made a handy seat though...

I've wanted to climb this crane for years, but unfortunately it's floodlit at night, and is right next to an office.

The building on the right here is part of the same place, plus there's more beyond it.

The mystery of the strange metal around the roof is revealed; it's track for this little cradle. Having thought about it, that sort of thing is probably common on all big buildings, but we don't really have tall buildings in Scotland. This one is the tallest for miles around.

Messed up HDR version to show the sunrise.

I'm skipping over a lot of photos here, don't want to max out the thread before I get to the end.

Here come the empty rooms. Exciting stuff.

There were white boards all over the place. All of them still had stuff that was written by the employees, as well as stuff written by people visiting after they'd left.

We found a couple of projectors still hanging from the ceiling. Surprised they haven't been stolen.

(no I didn't write this)

There was a room like this on every floor. There were holes in each floor in the same place, so you could see all the way down to the ground.

We found quite a few of these.

Now seems like a good time to mention the value of owning a flashgun. Many of the rooms in these photos were you can't directly see a window were pitch black, including this one.

You may not already know this, but oil companies are VERY anal about how you use stairs and things in their buildings.

At this point, after my friend had wandered off, I heard a very loud scream of "OW FUUUUCK!" I casually strolled through to the next room to see him hopping around with a tack sticking out of the bottom of his shoe. It had gone through the shoe and into his foot. I was in hysterics (who wouldn't be?), but I managed to get a photo before he pulled it out.

After I'd sufficiently recovered from my laughing fit, we pressed on. Notice anything weird about this picture? (probably not because they're difficult to make out in this shot). Leaves. Yes, leaves, on the fourth floor of a six floor building. We found quite a few patches throughout the building. No idea why.

>>1015428
now you learned one of the great rules of urban exploration:

always wear robust shoes

A fork for some reason.

>>1015430
Yeah I know. I was wearing more robust shoes than him, but not nearly as robust as they should be. I prefer easy mobility to shoe strength. No doubt that will prove to be a poor choice one day.

Cool story, bro. Cool pics too.

>>1015436
what the fuck happened there?
did the polish invade to steal copper tubing?

Couldn't resist some HDR. A surprising amount of glass was left intact throughout the building. Normally the glass is the first thing to go in these places.

OP I missed your textile factory thread, did you have a rs/megaupload of them :( ?

>>1015442
You think that's bad? Check this out, from the ground floor.

But yeah, as far as I know that's basically what has happened.

>>1015446
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>1015442
There were some cases where it was much much worse than the image I just posted. One room had the flooring removed. Another had big (6 feet) holes dug into the floor for reasons I can't imagine.

>>1015445
Sure. Haven't actually checked these, hopefully they still work :P

http://rapidshare.com/files/388834364/Broadford_1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/388898773/Broadford2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/388921411/Broadford3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/389261121/Broadford4.rar.html

I'm assuming this was sealed some time after construction. Don't often see stairs going right up to the ceiling.

do you know the reason why this building was closed for?

>>1015462
It was replaced by a new UK headquarters, which is right next to it and can be seen from the windows. More details here:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/bp-gives-go-ahead-for-gbp45m-aberdeen-headquarters-
1.44287
Pic is the new building. It's a lot cooler than it looks from this photo.

>>1015465
they make it rain every day, damnit

No idea why that url spread over 3 lines, sorry.

Okay, getting towards the cool stuff now.
While wandering down a corridor that looked like any other, we opened what appeared to be a cupboard door, to be greeted by a metal ladder doing up into a small pitch-black hole in the roof. Climbed up and this is what we saw (by torch light, there was no light up there at all - once again the flashgun saves the day).

After pulling open a heavy metal door we found this. There were two, one in another room.

>>1015484
!!!!
these recuperators are great, i wonder why they haven't been stolen yet.

proceed

nice stuff OP

>>1015485
Probably because they're 4 floors up, in a hidden area and that doesn't appear to have any way in except through a small hole in the ceiling of the level below. :D

Okay, now these stairs went down to the kitchen level. It looks like there might have been a couple of shops down here as well, selling newspapers and things.

Buuuut before we get to my favourite part by far, here's two more rooms. This was a conference room of some sort. There was a seating plan on the wall, for about 10 fancy looking chairs to be placed in an arc in front of this giant screen. There was a hole in the roof for a projector. Lots of interesting bits and pieces were laid out on the tables at the front.

>>1015533
did you touch the screen?

Some of the stuff at the front of the room.

This room was completely dark, needed torches to see.

>>1015534
No, I didn't I'm afraid. It was rigid, but apart from that I can't tell you anything about it.

Free cables.

I love viewing urban exploration images, thank you for putting yourself into danger of being caught for these pictures. Also thanks for the textile mill, those were mighty nice

great thread, thx

Haven't forgotten about this thread, just processing a bunch of images at once rather than starting and stopping all the time. I'll post them when I'm done. They're of imo the most interesting part.

well proceed good sir :D

Gonna be a heavy mix of hdr and non-hdr stuff for a bit.

Some non-hdr versions of the same shot, because I know some people hate it.

So this is the part that's labeled 'Restaurant' on the various maps throughout the building. I guess they had to provide the employees with a place to eat since there aren't any shops near the building at all, apart from a huge Asda, but people would get sick of buying sandwiches there every day quite fast.

It was a very interesting area. There was a very large open space as you can see, which presumably there used to be chairs and tables. The kitchen is attached off to the right of this photo.

And here's the kitchen. It's quite a large space, I imagine that lots of people must have worked here (not surprising given that they had 1000 people to feed every day). Lots of equipment and plates and such were still here.

Wish I'd taken more pictures in here.

An office attached to the kitchen. Strange place for an office I thought.

The two walk-in freezers for the kitchen. The sliding on in the background appeared to be locked, I couldn't get it open.

Back of the kitchen.

l like your threads.you do fine

Maps are always good.

This area was very posh.
It's not obvious from the photo, but there's a cupboard or something behind the dark wood on the left. It had two doors which didn't budge, plus a track in the roof, and another door on the opposite side. I wondered if it was a divider, but it looked more like a cupboard door to me.

Moving on, we entered the area the pikies have ravaged. By this time we'd been in for almost 6 hours, and running on 4 hours of sleep had taken their toll and I couldn't really be bothered taking any more photos so I skipped most of it. Suffice to say that the place was a complete bombsite.

This went down underground. I was going to go down there until I realised that the brown stuff isn't the floor, it's a couple of inches of water.

So yeah, didn't go down there.

We did find a strange box though...

We then excitedly moved to the area labeled "lab." on the map. Sadly it had been converted to an office at some point and had no lab equipment at all.

One wall in the lab had this full height print. Hasn't come out very well in the picture unfortunately.

Someone had been cleaning...

At this point we decided we'd had enough for one day. Got another photo from the front that I took as we drove away, but after that I'm done.

There's quite a lot more photos, but they're all close up detail shots of things and probably won't be interesting to anyone. Think I'm gonna go to bed, I'm shattered.

I declare this an epic thread.

archive?

Please post some rapidshare links!

Small point - All of this should of been in /p/ really...

http://4chanarchive.org/brchive/main.php?mode=submit

Thanks for your request.
It has been added to our database and the thread will be archived as soon as enough request for that thread have been made.
This thread has been requested 2 times now.

I requested too. Great work, OP, maybe zip it?

>>1015344
What i find baffling is that, there was no security on a building so close to the airport. Thats a disaster waiting to happen, but other than that a most excellent thread.

epic thread, makes me wish there was more cool stuff like this near where I live

hope you don't mind that I add more abandoned building pics, op

well done OP, I support this

get out of here stalker

>>1015425
>>1015423
i would have taken those, they can sell for quite a bit

Why the hell would you just abandon a building instead of leasing the space? At least pull all the cabling and resell it. I can only imagine a government entity doing something this wasteful.

>>1016356

look at the photo with the tack on his friends shoe. it has BP logo on it. this aint no govt building. if it was they would have sold it for cheap very quickly.

>>1015423
>>1015425
holy shit why didn't you steal some network switches?

>>1016331
>>1016673

Who says they weren't half-inched the second after these photos were taken?

>>1015326
There is security around the building. At least, there used to be pretty good 24 hour security around it, until BP sold the building. Now there's a group called Monarch Security who are famous for being useless around here. Basically, a Monarch Security sign means there is no security. The building is scheduled to be demolished within the next year as far as I'm aware.

First RS link. Uploading the rest.
http://rapidshare.com/files/393167879/BP_building_1.rar.html

>>1016675
I do, we didn't - and don't ever - take anything.

For three reasons.
1. I'm not a thief, and that stuff doesn't belong to me, even though I'm aware that it's probably going to be destroyed. I'd consider taking something of historical significance, but apart from that: no.
2. It's nice for other visitors to see this stuff. Nothing worse than visiting a site after everyone has pinched everything and it's a bare hulk.
3. If you get caught, you'll more than likely get away with a warning. If you get caught and you've taken anything from the building, you'll be charged with theft and have a criminal record.

man, if that place was in my town it would a be a homeless hang out littered with all sorts of needles making exploration a non option. i'm envious of you, op, great pictures, wish i could've been there with you.

OP, thank you for the archive!

>>1016313
where was this taken? looks creepy

I'm curious to know where those other photos were taken too. I'm assuming the Silo is American.

>>1016692
The police around here are quite careful about not allowing squatters the chance to move in to these places. The place I posted the other week, the textile factory, has police in almost every single day throwing people out.

Next archive:
http://rapidshare.com/files/393178396/BP_building_2.rar.html

Fucking love you OP.

Did some exploring in my old university's steam tunnels...should go back with a nice camera. Over a mile underground across three systems.

>>1015326
There was at least one of these on every floor.

http://rapidshare.com/files/393188830/BP_building_3.rar.html

Thnaks for the archives (and the photos).
Is there a fourth one on its way?

Final part
http://rapidshare.com/files/393259060/BP_building_4.rar.html

>>1016867

Thanks, man.

>>1015676
Thats a sound isolation booth, you use them for recording people, you can see the black rubber on the inside of the door to make an air (and noise) tight seal. The black panel on the front are audio connectors (there would be a mic inside).

Doesn't explain why they would have one? Perhaps they did some voice over work for company media?? It must of been used fairly often, otherwise you would just rent time in a proper studio

>>1016729
Those aren't switches, they're just patch panels. The back of each connector would be wired to network points around the floor. The switches would have been in the right side cabinet. To activate a network point you patch the from the lefthand side to the switch on the right. Normally the switches are lease from whoever the company contracts their IT network to. They would have come out as soon as the building was vacated.

nice pics OP!
It's a shame you object to taking shit - I'm pretty sure I saw a Global knife in a bucket in one of the pics, the one with the curved pizza cutter thing. Those knives are great, and they retail at about $80+ (AUD).

Yeah I would have taken heaps of other shit too:
computer/electronics junk to sell or use,
interesting stuff, like papers or random gadgets/junk (I saw a IR viewer in there),
basic commodities to sell if I'm desperate (copper wiring etc...),
FIRE EXTINGUISHERS - endless, ENDLESS fun can be had with these.

...yeah so I'm a massive cunt for taking shit... but I can run fast as well :).

Thanks for sharing, really appreciated.

>>1016890

>Nice pics OP!
>It's a shame you have common sense, being an Aussie I would have completely looted the place.

>...yeah so I am an idiot and I even acknowledge as much.

Load these up to UER mang, its been getting kinda stagnant over there.

I wish i had some of the stuff i did when i lived in st louis, old munitions factory and an old steam plant.

>>1015406
lol at the stuff written on the board
"i liek turtlez"
"penis penis penis :3"

also epic stuff OP. i love your camera and the fact you can find places like this

Abandoned buildings are my wet dream. How do you find them, OP?

>>1017335
UER Mang?

>>1017349
We found this one completely by accident. Last weekend we went out in search of abandoned buildings. We had a completely unsuccessful day, but as we got back to the city, we drove past this building (which we drive past every day), and one of my friends suddenly said "Oh yeah, you know that place has been empty for years". :O
So we drove closer, and lo and behold it's empty. Queue a lot of "HOLY SHIT". This place is 10 minutes walk from my flat, so I was especially surprised I'd never noticed before.

This is a really fantastic photo set, do you have any links to your other stuff? I'm sure we'd all be interested in seeing something epic like an abandoned hospital.

>>1015465
This is in the UK? Where? I live near London and there's fuck all to explore around here (that isn't impossible to get into without running into shitloads of security)

>>1018084
Aberdeen I'm afraid. Other end of the country from you. London has quite a few interesting places to explore, but you're right about them being more security heavy around there.

>>1018093
Well I might take a trip up North sometime anyway. There's definitely some cool places around here but yeah..they actually seem to care about security.

>>1016684

GREAT thread, and thanks for posting that.

>>1015525

Great pics. One question are the granny bars for some disabilities act requirement or do you really drink that much during lunch?

>>1020151
That one was a private bathroom, it had "No Entry" written on the door.

Maybe it was made for an executive who was disabled. Didn't notice those bars in any of the other toilets.

Oh wait, no that wasn't the one I was thinking of.

Maybe it was just a disabled toilet then.

OP If you're in Scotland you should try the abandoned seminary in Kinross. Its near Glasgow. Google it.

damn OP, very nice thread

i wish i could find epic abandoned buildings in houston and get in without getting caught -- it'd be an epic smoking spot.

all we've found is an abandoned office that has been slowly degraded over the past 3 or 4 years with porn all over the floor LOL

>>1015346
>>1015355
>>1015360

Probably stating the obvious here but the rail and the little cart and everything are for window washing.

>>1015442
no, it was your mother, you fuck.

>>1015676
>>1016883

You can also use these boxes for hearing tests. Some companies have health departments that can perform medicals onsite.

>>1017335
>>1017335
>>1017335

St. Louis, coming right up.

Recognize it, faggot?

Another St. Louis.

>>1020624
Anyone tried getting inside that thing?

>>1016890

You're not a cunt I'd take all that stuff too. You know it'd just end up trashed anyway

>>1020674

I've gotten inside it. It's a military boat that's been stuck there for decades USS Inaugural. There's nothing inside it but river silt. and water. I've also climbed out on the gun barrel in front.

>>1017926
google "long island psychiatric hospital"

there are quite a lot, because back in the day (late 1800s/early 1900s) pretty much all of the mentally unstable were sent to Long Island, since it was mostly fields at the time. The main four hospitals were King's Park, Pilgrim, Central Islip, and Edgewood (part of Pilgrim). Pilgrim was the largest, at one point housing over 10,000 patients. Parts of Pilgrim are still in use, but there are abandoned buildings on the complex. These places were their own societies and had many buildings (King's Park had about 150) ranging from nurse staff housing to power plants to morgues.

You can find tons of pictures on all of those places with a simple google.

tl;dr Long Island is an abandoned psychological hospital goldmine

pic is a shitty exterior picture I took of King's Park's infamous Building 93 (Was medical/surgical if memory serves)

>>1015835
Thread 1015326 has already been archived.


It is probably still waiting to be reviewed by the mods, which means it can take a few days until it is available in the archive.

This thread is amazing.

>>1022508
Also because New York City was chock full of loonies that needed to be binned.

I played soccer when I was little in Brentwood and always wondered what the ominous buildings off in the distance were. Now I know.

OP here, I'm amazed that this thread is still alive.

I'm planning on going back into the building on Sunday. There's a hell of a lot of it we haven't looked at yet.

Also, I'm probably be going to be visiting an old asylum tomorrow too.

hell of a thread, OP

good job

>>1023472
nice, can't wait for the pics

AND OF COURSE YOU RETARDED URBAN EXPLORERS WON'T TELL US WHERE THIS SHIT IS BECAUSE IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE NOT BREAKING THE LAW BY ENTERING THESE PLACES YET YOU DON'T WANT ANYONE ELSE TO

NOT SAGE FOR CENTRAL ISLIP PICTURES

>>1024313
Practically everything in this thread has been identified if you could be bothered to look through it.

This is awesome.

Lot's of valuables especially the projectors and networking equipment. I probably would have taken some of those routers...

>>1015832

Please don't post future adventures in /p/

I'll never see it there and these pictures are awesome

Bp's old office in Dyce, Aberdeen.

>>1024313
I gave you the names of all those places AND even told you to google, there's plenty of information on those places. Since you didn't feel like doing that, here's some Central Islip:
http://www.opacity.us/site94_central_islip_state_hospital.htm
King's Park: http://www.opacity.us/site3_kings_park_psychiatric_center.htm
Pilgrim: http://www.opacity.us/site23_pilgrim_state_hospital.htm

Most hospitals are in the towns of the same name. King's Park is in King's Park, NY, Central Islip is in Central Islip, NY etc (Pilgrim is in Brentwood, however)

Part of the reason not to share is idiots who will go there and deface the locations, steal things, vandalize, and generally cause trouble. Not to mention going isn't exactly the safest thing to do. I'm not going to be all "DON'T GO CUZ YOU COULD FAL AND DIE OR GET ASBESTOS CANRER" but I urge you to look into the sites and identify potential risks before you go. As for asbestos, it's pretty easy to get the appropriate masks, and they aren't very expensive (I think mine was around $15, and $5 for replacement filters). Have fun, be safe, and remember the UE motto "take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints"

OP here.

Just been back and discovered loads of cool stuff I hadn't seen before. We encountered some people who were trashing stuff so we made a hasty exit since we're going back in the morning anyway.

Totally exhausted, will post pics tomorrow.