I've been a lazy twat...

..really I have. There's a world of difference between a blog and a website, people don't seem to expect a personal website to be updated quite so often as a blog, and this is one of the problem's with a blog, keeping it updated. Despite the fact I've been doing stuff I just haven't had the time or inclination to get stuff posted.

Anyway, with that said I'll give you a quick roundup of the shiz I've been up to over the last month or so, hopefully in the right order-ish. A three hour trip in Bunker, Warrington, disapointed to find some rather crude graffiti in there relating to a number of northwest explorers, ho-hum...


The Manchester drains meet, well, what started as a drains meet soon turned into a 'ooh, big mill, and a school' meet. Was a great day nonetheless and good to meet a few new faces from NWEX.


Had a return trip to The Works with Ric on the Bank Holiday Monday, did Inhospitable while we were there. Then a rooftop in the city centre with Bungle, I know, a rooftop ffs. Still, the views were nice lol


Followed by the 'catacombs' in Nottingham with Sal and Fairygirl, a quick mooch around the cemetery caves which were very reminiscent of the sandstone air raid shelters in Stockport.


I think that's the lot, if not, it'll do for now.

TnM :->

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Third time lucky...

..for anyone wondering what happened to northwestexploration it's gone. The new forum http://www.nwex.co.uk/ will be up and running shortly, with luck.

Now, we need to see if we can manage to keep a forum going for more than four months.

M :)

***EDIT*** Blogger is being a twat with the link above, just copy and paste it into your address bar.

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Cathedral Steps, Manchester...Errrmm..

It's difficult to think of a site that has caused more arguments, more aggro, more falling out and hassle than Cathedral Steps. Yeah, the access comes in two flavours, easy, or a bit harder. But I'm really struggling to understand why people have felt so protective over this one.

Fair play to Userscott and Stepping Lightly for their sterling efforts in finding a way in in the first place, it's pretty interesting to say the least, but for me, that was where the interesting bit ended. It's a fooked up old air raid shelter under the streets of Manchester, sure, there are some nice remnants left over from the Second World War, I liked those bits, the posters, signs and whatnot. But maybe I've missed the 'interesting boat', maybe I've seen too many pictures, too many 'reports'. Maybe I've seen too many online arguments and disagreements about who should and shouldn't be allowed to see it.

Maybe I've overdosed on Cathedral Steps, in the same vein as Fletcher's paper mill or High Royds Hospital. Maybe people are too keen to follow in the steps of others and follow them too soon and too often.

I'm not blazing a trail, far from it, just quietly working my way through things, Cathedral Steps is off the list and in my opinion, it really wasn't worth the wait.

Mendo :)

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