I met up with @Robbie Barrett with the intentions to visit a different section of the Longbridge Tunnels, however, on the way there my alternator belt snapped, leaving me with no power steering and my battery light coming on just as I parked up a little down the road from the tunnels! A quick call to the AA and I was told about 3 hours, we thought this would be enough time to have a bit of an explore as we were in the area anyway. Unfortunately, the entrance which I hadn’t been in had been blocked up so we gave that a miss and scouted out the MG factory instead.
Within an hour of calling, the AA arrived and my car was repaired at the roadside with plenty of time to spare. So off we went to continue looking around the MG Factory and found an interesting entrance. After wandering around the rooftops and traversing between various buildings using the rooftops, we decided to check out a car on the outside which attracted our attention. Upon doing so I noticed a CCTV camera meant we had been spotted. We hear a car racing along the site towards us and that was the end of that explore. I asked how long ago we were spotted, and I was told a couple minutes before they picked us up. However, we had a good few hours onsite so I guess we didn’t keep them waiting too long.
Now onto the main part, I have been driving past Hall Green Greyhound Stadium every few days since it closed last month to check if any windows etc are damaged and nothing unusual was spotted. We decided to climb over the fencing and have a look at the site, we could explore the grounds with no issues, though we placed our bets on how long until we are caught, we estimated around 20 minutes. We walked around the site checking every single door, triggering an alarm in the process, but we eventually found an entrance in the most unlikely of places.
Now for a bit of information on information on this place!
Hall Green Stadium was opened on the 24th August 1927 and it was the first greyhound track to be built in Birmingham. 20,000 people turned up to experience racing there for the first time.
In 1970, over £750,000 was spent renovating the club into a four tier restaurant and a new electronic tote board was built and the kennels were demolished during the renovation.
In 1981 the track was replaced with a sand surface and undersoil heating was installed.
Unfortunately, the current owners of the stadium submitted a planning application for housing to be developed on this land leaving the last race day to be 29th July 2017.
This bit of research was adapted from Wikipedia, I’m not too good at that part
Anyway, here’s some photos.
We triggered an alarm when we were inside the main building, which made us think that our time there was even more limited, however we managed to stay for a good hour or so before deciding to leave. My main aim for this explore was to get into the booth at the top, however, when we got to the entrance we found it was padlocked shut, we found around 30 keys for the place, but decided not to waste time trying to open the lock in case someone did arrive.
Thanks for reading!
Within an hour of calling, the AA arrived and my car was repaired at the roadside with plenty of time to spare. So off we went to continue looking around the MG Factory and found an interesting entrance. After wandering around the rooftops and traversing between various buildings using the rooftops, we decided to check out a car on the outside which attracted our attention. Upon doing so I noticed a CCTV camera meant we had been spotted. We hear a car racing along the site towards us and that was the end of that explore. I asked how long ago we were spotted, and I was told a couple minutes before they picked us up. However, we had a good few hours onsite so I guess we didn’t keep them waiting too long.
Now onto the main part, I have been driving past Hall Green Greyhound Stadium every few days since it closed last month to check if any windows etc are damaged and nothing unusual was spotted. We decided to climb over the fencing and have a look at the site, we could explore the grounds with no issues, though we placed our bets on how long until we are caught, we estimated around 20 minutes. We walked around the site checking every single door, triggering an alarm in the process, but we eventually found an entrance in the most unlikely of places.
Now for a bit of information on information on this place!
Hall Green Stadium was opened on the 24th August 1927 and it was the first greyhound track to be built in Birmingham. 20,000 people turned up to experience racing there for the first time.
In 1970, over £750,000 was spent renovating the club into a four tier restaurant and a new electronic tote board was built and the kennels were demolished during the renovation.
In 1981 the track was replaced with a sand surface and undersoil heating was installed.
Unfortunately, the current owners of the stadium submitted a planning application for housing to be developed on this land leaving the last race day to be 29th July 2017.
This bit of research was adapted from Wikipedia, I’m not too good at that part
Anyway, here’s some photos.
We triggered an alarm when we were inside the main building, which made us think that our time there was even more limited, however we managed to stay for a good hour or so before deciding to leave. My main aim for this explore was to get into the booth at the top, however, when we got to the entrance we found it was padlocked shut, we found around 30 keys for the place, but decided not to waste time trying to open the lock in case someone did arrive.
Thanks for reading!
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