Urban Exploration

[*Amy*]

Does what it says on the tin, really. Visiting old derelict buildings and letting others see. I've just been introduced to this website which does just that and there are a few places in and around Aberdeen. Some quality photos, some pretty creepy too, especially those from asylums...

UK Urban Exploration Forums

There's Satrosphere
Satrosphere Aberdeen 9/3/08 - REPORT - UK Urban Exploration Forums

and although not exactly derelict, the Bon Accord Baths
Bon Accord Baths, Aberdeen, 30/01/08 - REPORT - UK Urban Exploration Forums

For anyone who hasn't seen these yet, there's some impressive viewing!

[Swingin' Ryan]

The pictures of the Bon Accord are beautiful, but the one's of Satrosphere are so depressing, I used to love going there when I was a kid and it's all smashed up and derelict.

[daveofficer]

satrosphere still exists, it's near transition is it not?

[suzywoo]

yup it does its on constitution street. I used to work there back in the day...best job ever! shame about the pay

[Swingin' Ryan]

Originally Posted by daveofficer

satrosphere still exists, it's near transition is it not?

Yeh, it's a new one though. The pictures are the original Satrosphere down the road from the old Odeon cinema (now Canon's Gym).

The photo's on this site are stunning, I don't know how these people manage to walk about in derelict Mental Hospital's without being terrified but the pictures are amazing. They all look like incredible film sets.

[Larsen B]

I've never been to Bon Accord Baths, they're awesome pictures though.

[pogofish]

Paolo999 is another guy to keep in mind for this.

Flickr: Photos from paolo999

[Lucky Rathen]

Here's alot of aberdeen stuff.

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Very impressed by this one, no idea there was such a quality shitter in Aberdeen:
Victorian Toilets in Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen - Report - 19/02/08 - UK Urban Exploration Forums

Great link by the way Amy, thanks for sharing. I always thought I was a total weirdo for having an interest in derelict buildings, I'm soo happy to find there's more of us!

[Lucky Rathen]

I really want to see inside Amadeus nowadays, I've tried nosing through the front doors but you can't see much and there's no windows in the main hall. Also the Tivoli, and the upstairs of the old Palace before it became liquid (apparently it used to have a cinema on the top floor).

Edit - oh and also the old Aberdeen College building on Holburn Street, where the Talisman building now stands. Rumour has it that it was just abandoned with all the stuff still inside it, like the Mary Celeste or something. I jumped the fence to go and have a lookie once but it was all boarded up and I was too much of a pussy to break in in case anything fell on me or I got hurt (it was closed due to severe structural defects) and nobody knew where I was.

[Jake Spike]

Originally Posted by Elwood Cobra Kai

Here's alot of aberdeen stuff.

Very impressed by this one, no idea there was such a quality shitter in Aberdeen:
Victorian Toilets in Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen - Report - 19/02/08 - UK Urban Exploration Forums

Great link by the way Amy, thanks for sharing. I always thought I was a total weirdo for having an interest in derelict buildings, I'm soo happy to find there's more of us!

There's an even higher quality bog under the Castlegate that you just walked down into from pavement level but they bricked it up years ago with everything left intact.

I too have a weird interest in derelict buildings, I love looking around in them for signs of life, how they were used, that kinda thing. I was fucking raging when they demolished the old house at 62 Skene Square and rebuilt it, there's some bizarre recent history in that building, including a suicide. That was the first place I ever got shit-faced in.