….”Meantime, the derelict buildings haven’t been completely ignored. Despite palisade fences, angry security guards with ginger hair, and motion-sensing CCTV cameras, the urban explorers seek them out. Using wheeliebins as stepladders, they flit through empty corridors, recording abandoned places using digital cameras, then sharing their finds on the web. They go where conservationists fear to tread, and create a digital archive of departed structures. The urban explorers– or “urbexers”– are hit by diminishing returns because a property boom, like we’ve experienced over the past few years, causes developers to snap up their haunts, turning them into building sites. Paradoxically, recession is a good thing, and the trough in the economic cycle at the start of the 1990’s was an opportunity. Manufacturing plants closed down, and the NHS abandoned its policy of institutional care– so the emptied factories and asylums entered the public realm, freeing to be explored”.
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=27650
looking on that website there looks like some quality venues for parties…
