{"id":781,"date":"2012-09-17T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2012-09-17T15:30:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T14:30:53","slug":"for-derelicts-in-london-and-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"For derelicts in London and the North&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I don&#8217;t just mean my friends (BOOM! BOOM!).<\/p>\n<p>Got a soft spot for Urban Exploration, living\u00a0archaeology\u00a0and the like. Think it&#8217;s important to remember that what happened in the recent past can be just as interesting or important as things which happened in the distant past, and that history isn&#8217;t just something in roped off sites or museums. Two things which you can go see, or just look at online if you&#8217;re lazier.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Kym pointed me in the direction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.derelictlondon.com\/\">Derelict London<\/a>. It&#8217;s a project that&#8217;s been going on since 2003, and Paul Talling&#8217;s been gathering photos of various derelict sites around Greater London for that time. His site&#8217;s divided into different broad themes (Hospitals, Offices, Waterways and Wharves, etc). There&#8217;s stuff on there which is no longer around, and stuff which you could still go and see yourself. Some amazing pictures. This one&#8217;s Catford dog track:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/5607713_orig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-782\" title=\"5607713_orig\" src=\"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/5607713_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"909\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Second is more melancholy, as it deals with aircraft crashes and the associated deaths. The Peak District has \u00a0more than its fair share of aircraft crash sites, due to the number of nearby military bases over time, the poor weather, and the sheer size of the landscape. The remoteness of these means that the wreckage was often left and preserved, and can still be found on the Peak today. Both Astreck&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrecks.co.uk\/peakaircraftwrecks.htm\">The Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk\/\">Peak District Air Crashes<\/a> are worth reading. Below is a Superfortress crash site from Astreck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Wreck-Trip-Super-Fortress-02-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-783\" title=\"Wreck Trip Super Fortress 02-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Wreck-Trip-Super-Fortress-02-large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I don&#8217;t just mean my friends (BOOM! BOOM!). Got a soft spot for Urban Exploration, living\u00a0archaeology\u00a0and the like. Think it&#8217;s important to remember that what happened in the recent past can be just as interesting or important as things which happened in the distant past, and that history isn&#8217;t just something in roped off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[141],"tags":[613,35,614,490],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-crashes","tag-london","tag-peak-district","tag-urban-exploration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAkBY-cB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1058,"url":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=1058","url_meta":{"origin":781,"position":0},"title":"Throwing Stuff at the Urban Bar in London","author":"MattWPBS","date":"December 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Throwing Stuff, Sam Russo and Boston Manor at the Urban Bar in London. 30th November 2013. 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