lincolnshire

May 2024 The Visit @Mr Budge and I visited on an extremely hot day, and it turned out to be the perfect day for some exploring. We managed to avoid the CCTV cameras and entered the first building. It was clear right away that we had free rein of the entire site, as we slowly made our way...

Introduction Me and @JakeV50 headed out to Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire to look at some more pump houses. Unfortunately, the day was full of disappointments once again but we did come across a couple of nice surprises. This report covers an Engine House which I found on old OS maps, and a pump...

Yesterday we visited Rauceby Asylum in Sleaford, Lincolnshire. I'd never been before and on our tour of urbex sites around Lincolnshire, this place was at the top of the "to do" list. Rauceby Hospital, also known as Kesteven County Asylum, is a long since closed mental institution in Sleaford...

The History St. John's Hospital began life in August 1852 when it opened as Lincolnshire County Asylum as one of the first-wave Victorian county asylums built in response to the 1845 Lunacy Act. It is constructed from pale local stone in an Italianate renaissance-inspired style, and is quite...

I'd had this location in mind for a long time, and regretfully never took the opportunity to visit before three of the four dishes were removed for scrap in October 2018. Although this is a real shame, I was pleased to discover that there was in fact one dish that had been retained. I couldn't...

Explore: access to Nocton hall can be a bit varied, although it is not very overlooked in most parts and there doesnt really seem to be any security, the fences are well maintained and any holes are normally patched. after a bit of walking around we managed to find easy access (albeit through a...

History: this pub has been in business for around 100 years, although there is very little history about the building there are pictures online from the 1940's of the building during a flood. The Ropery inn was closed due to fire damage, when the building caught fire around 15 firemen arrived...

History: (taken from HughieD) Gainsborough’s Lea Road Infant's School was built and opened on 3rd May 1906 replacing the Bridge Road and Hickman Street Schools. Initially (the first three decades of its life) it was an infants’ (up to age 7) school. In August 1930 it re-organised to accommodate...

History I couldn't find much history online about this place other than it was owned and operated by a Liechtenstein based Boiler Making company called Hoval. It was closed in 2014 after a few years of unsustainable losses for the company. They decided to shut this factory down and focus on...