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Night Crawler

Supra’s have always been close to my heart, having owned 2 of them before and this one being my third i find myself taking pictures of it all the time. My current model is a 2JZ-GTE GZ Aerotop which is quite a rare model for the UK, most of the aerotop examples are usually none turbo. Continue reading

Light Beams – Northern Lights

After a trip to Iceland in late 2014 ending in disappointment as the northern lights (Aurora Borealis)  failed to show myself and the wife took a trip to Tromsø in Norway to hopefully see them for the first time. Continue reading

Das ZuckerFabrik (DE)

Out for a day with CmdCord visiting a few places we had seen before we stumbled across this sugar factory.

I couldn’t find much information about it other than it was founded in 1876 before been extensively rebuilt in the 1960’s Continue reading

The Film Studio (DE)

The Film Studio was a buzzing studio for various films spanning from the nearly 1950’s to the latest full production in 1990.
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It’s been a quiet time.

Theres not been many updates here on Urbanpixels.co.uk in the past few months, i’ve found myself extremely busy with other issues and tasks that life throws at you. Alas things will start to improve shortly. More explores and more pictures are coming soon and i can’t wait to get going. Continue reading

Zeche DB (DE)

Back to the Ruhr, I’ve had a bit of time over a working weekend in Germany so decided to hit up one of the great collieries which should really get more attention for it’s amount of awesome features. Continue reading

The Portal

The cooling tower at the IM power plant in Belgium has been visited many times by many other explorers but they often miss one of the most captivating parts of it, underneath. Continue reading

Chris’s Yamaha V Star Bobber Project

After not seeing my friend Chris for quite some time he called me up to take some pictures of his newly finished Yamaha V Star Bobber project for him and I was more than happy to oblige! Continue reading

Dyson Refractory (UK)

Dyson have a few factories in Sheffield, I’ve not seen this one before, but judging the inside of this site it must have been stripped long ago, only part of the Kilns remained with a few other sections still in use like the forman’s offices and various store warehouses. Continue reading

Pilkington Glass (UK)

This site has been around a while now, been done over and over, it looks as if the site has been well and truly pikey’d at the moment with the remnants of cabling allover the place. Continue reading

The Chocolate Factory (DE)

After a little run around eastern Germany we had a drive through the most derp’d town i’ve ever seen in Germany (Don’t think it’s quite as bad as the whole of Belgium.. though) we stumbled across this old chocolate factory. Continue reading

Schloss T (DE)

Schloss T or “Castle” as the translation goes has been in existence since the 1800’s but has more recently been used as a psychiatric hospital in the 1950’s and as a retirement home in the early 2000’s Continue reading

Power Plant Mega (DE)

This power station has been supplied with some steroids at some point, it’s one of Germany’s “Mega” power stations with the main turbine hall consisting of 14 turbines producing a peak power of 3520mw. I’m certainly glad i visited here and was worth the 1200miles driven. Continue reading

Urbanpixels BBC TV Feature

Today was the day of the 27th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the north of the Ukraine, the BBC ran a feature on their website and TV channels which included some pictures from the Dark Pripyat photo-book from Urbanpixels. Continue reading

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