Hi all first time posting a visit so be patient with me. Recently started exploring again after a year or so of in-activity and had the bug to get back out there again.... something i aim to keep up with to so if you explore around cambridge , Suffolk , Norfolk and fancy showing someone around let me know!
So i took advantage of great weather in Suffolk this weekend and took the short drive from Bury st Edmund's to Shotley. Recently heard of the HMS Ganges site by a work colleague so after a bit of research, and reading a few reviews of the site on here i knew i needed to check this one out...... previously been to Shotley a few times and and despite the museum i had no idea there was an abandoned facility anywhere close
. Now if you havent heard of this facility before there are some better reviews with much more in depth information about the site on this website, but to be a bit plain from what i know this was a naval training facility i also think at some point police were also trained on the grounds too.
so did the usual.... used google earth to scout the area around and to look for potential entrances..... now it might be worth mentioning we were told there was security on site before hand so we picked our opportune moment..... (sunday around half 3-4Pm) our thinking was the security guard would want to bugger off for his sunday roast haha ..... and we were correct! we spent a good 2-3 hours exploring all the various buildings on site completely un-interrupted (including my favorite part the big empty swimming pool!). its worth mentioning we did NOT break in to any of these buildings nor would we if they were completely closed up but luckily for us there were plenty of entrances into nearly all of the buildings on site (its worth scouting about if you can only see padlocked doors).
now on to the explore..... 6 maybe 7 large buildings left to look around.
1. - Central Dining Hall
2. - Nelson Hall
3. - Boys Messes & CPO Messes
4. - Swimming Pool
5. - Messes?
6. - Messes?
As you can imagine most of these buildings have been cleared and are empty apart from the heavy stuff (pool plant etc). although building 1 looks to be used as some sort of store of all random toot from the other buildings. The main attraction at this site for me is the large swimming pool located in building 4. It was at this point we took a break and took to the first floor seating area around the pool to skin up in a cool place and chill out (another hobby of mine) before making our way around the rest of the buildings.
After exploring the rest of the buildings and made our way around no. 6 we found some bunkers . These bunkers looked to have had new blast type walls inside them but apart from that were completely empty! still nice to look inside though and the cool air was refreshing .
And finally before leaving we had to take a look around one of the water towers (not actually sure what they are :x )
and then the training mast on the way out
I will upload the rest of the pics once i find a decent image sharing site! (any Suggestions) ?
So i took advantage of great weather in Suffolk this weekend and took the short drive from Bury st Edmund's to Shotley. Recently heard of the HMS Ganges site by a work colleague so after a bit of research, and reading a few reviews of the site on here i knew i needed to check this one out...... previously been to Shotley a few times and and despite the museum i had no idea there was an abandoned facility anywhere close
. Now if you havent heard of this facility before there are some better reviews with much more in depth information about the site on this website, but to be a bit plain from what i know this was a naval training facility i also think at some point police were also trained on the grounds too.so did the usual.... used google earth to scout the area around and to look for potential entrances..... now it might be worth mentioning we were told there was security on site before hand so we picked our opportune moment..... (sunday around half 3-4Pm) our thinking was the security guard would want to bugger off for his sunday roast haha ..... and we were correct! we spent a good 2-3 hours exploring all the various buildings on site completely un-interrupted (including my favorite part the big empty swimming pool!). its worth mentioning we did NOT break in to any of these buildings nor would we if they were completely closed up but luckily for us there were plenty of entrances into nearly all of the buildings on site (its worth scouting about if you can only see padlocked doors).
now on to the explore..... 6 maybe 7 large buildings left to look around.
1. - Central Dining Hall
2. - Nelson Hall
3. - Boys Messes & CPO Messes
4. - Swimming Pool
5. - Messes?
6. - Messes?
As you can imagine most of these buildings have been cleared and are empty apart from the heavy stuff (pool plant etc). although building 1 looks to be used as some sort of store of all random toot from the other buildings. The main attraction at this site for me is the large swimming pool located in building 4. It was at this point we took a break and took to the first floor seating area around the pool to skin up in a cool place and chill out (another hobby of mine) before making our way around the rest of the buildings.
After exploring the rest of the buildings and made our way around no. 6 we found some bunkers . These bunkers looked to have had new blast type walls inside them but apart from that were completely empty! still nice to look inside though and the cool air was refreshing .
And finally before leaving we had to take a look around one of the water towers (not actually sure what they are :x )
and then the training mast on the way out
I will upload the rest of the pics once i find a decent image sharing site! (any Suggestions) ?
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