UrbanSickness

UK Urban Exploration

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Who Am I? -

Im an everyday guy with a hobby. This hobby just happen to involve old derelict buildings that everyone else ignores.
To me they are fascinating places. So i choose to enter these buildings to see whats inside and photograph it.

What is Urban Exploration? -

    To me Urban Exploration is discovering what lays in our derelict society behind those closed doors and tucked away areas of our towns, cities and countryside. You can find military ruins and bunkers from the World War II and the cold war, abandoned mental asylums and derelict industries.

These places are unlikely to be seen by the everyday public and as redevelopment occurs these places will be lost forever, taking their history and secrets with them.
Ignorant people stereotype "Urban Explorers" as young teenage males with nothing better to do than "break into buildings". They couldnt be more wrong.
There are many female explorers out there aswell as a huge range of ages upto and over the age of 50!!
And we're not all jobless dole scroungers, some of they people i have explored with have high profile jobs in the city of london, aswell as civil servents, ex-military, teachers. The list is endless. This misconception of Urban Exploration only comes from one source, the media. Although there is not much press around, journalists are slowly jumping on the bandwagon of this "new craze". (although people have been exploring for years)

Why? -

    Anyone that does Urban Exploration will have their own personal views on why they do it. 

To me it started off being a historic interest. Looking back at our country's history, as i discovered more places to explore it became a thrill of not knowing what i would find but also that fact i was thinking to myself 'should i really be here'. Along with these discoveries i now wanted to record them, so i purchased a digital camera.
Unfortunatley some of the very first places i explored have sadly been demolished and have no records of my visits. Without urban explorers many places would be lost to history, but with our photos and reports, we make sure these places are never forgotton.