January 2024
The Visit
Following my successful visit to Forton Services back in November, I felt the time had come to have another crack at the beauty that is the Hilton Park Tower.
Just as I had been doing with Forton, every time I passed the services I would pull in for a quick look at the...
November 2023
The Visit
I visited this one with Mrs Gronk en route to the Lakes for a mini-getaway, for as long as I can remember I have been fascinated with the tower at Forton/ Lancaster Services, but who can honestly blame me? You can’t ignore the 20 metre tall tower dominating the...
19/05/23
Five Ways Tower in Birmingham is a 23 floor abandoned office building that closed down due to sick building syndrome in 2005. More information in my previous threads, this is a sort of update about the building.
My past few visits to the tower have been filled with great effort...
(as of 16/04/23)
Five Ways Tower is a 23 floor abandoned tower in Five Ways Birmingham. It was constructed in 1979 and was eventually abandoned in 2005 due to sick building syndrome.
For a while, security has been on high for the tower, with our last visit having the entrance sealed up with...
For the Love of Cranes
It’s become easy to look back at exploring over the years with rose-tinted glasses. Whether that’s reminiscing over epic long lost sites such as Pyestock, goons ruining favourite locations, or the more general sense of it’s just not the same anymore. In many cases, it’s...
Five ways tower used to be an old office block in central Birmingham, by the five ways round about. The 23 storey building was completed in 1979 however it was abandoned when a large amount of the workers kept on falling ill. Known as sick building syndrome this is caused by poor ventilation and...
North Tower (formerly Highland House) is a high-rise residential building on Victoria Bridge Street in Salford, England. The building is 23 stories tall with a podium at the base, which gives it a total height of 80 metres (260 ft) making it one of the tallest buildings in Salford. The building...
another boring night so another mission, this time it was nice to view the city from a more central point of view
looking down at the principal clock tower which you don't get to do often.
oxford road station from above
looking over towards central library
the view towards...
Manchester is throwing buildings up at the minute, and it shows no sign of slowing down. i was bored so decided to have a little climb and the views didn't disappoint!
looking towards the town hall
views over towards the universities
hulme from above
owen street towers
thanks for...
This is a site StealthyOne and myself have been wanting to explore for years. The time seemed right a couple of months back, and I figured it's about time to post the pics up. I'll include some links to more detailed info on the site.
The Wilton park estate once belonged to the monks of Burnham...
Saw this a few days ago from @Thatsnotme91 's post on the high stuff forum
decided to send tower solo and mission success #confetti #yay
sent for sunset around 7pm
climb up was painful climb down too :banghead
I know as far as the previous post did,
All pictures are taken on my iphone 6s Im...
my SECOND report plz don't rinse me
Its a block of buildings for students at the university of essex in Colchester.
they total 1142 rooms and one of them the one we climbed is under refurbishment
was with a friend COOL explore. was up there for a few hours. sunny day we just out there tanning...
My first REPORT plz don't rinse me
this is a standard residential area which had scaffolding up one of the sides at the time. Frinton is a town 30 minutes away from colchester and popular seaside attraction in the summer.
It's the tallest building in Frinton town and overlooks the seaside as...
Hello!
Im new to this so please excuse any mistakes. I am looking for someone to show me the ropes on rooftopping. I have hit up a couple of spots not too many but would really like a buddy to do this with !!
I am currently in the Reading area and i am more than happy to travel to any...
Hey so i know it hasnt heen long since last post if you wondering we did the gallaries and holaday inn but i havnt done anything since but honstly would love to start agian so if anyone wants to go climbing in bristol bath london ect just say and well get talking feel free to leave your insta...
Hey my names isaac and since a few people have moved away that i went climbing with thought this would be a good idea yeh so i live in the bristol eara and wanted to know if anyone want to go hit premier inn the chimney or galries tomorrow?? Send a message if you do
Afternoon all, my first time going to Manchester to see if I can watch the sunset from a rooftop, hopefully the weather stays clear and I get some nice shots to share with you!
Signed up to 28days later this evening after finally going out, albeit on my own because I have nobody to go with, thought I’d try and do something reasonably high for my ‘first proper rooftop’ and safe to say I think I did alright, was up there for around an hour or so, sorta found my own way...