Birmingham Wheels Park is a now closed. A former dedicated Wheeled-sports park with a short-track oval motor racing circuit, MSA approved kart circuit, drifting arenas, off-road rally stage and the UK’s only purpose-built outdoor speed-skating arena. The site is in the Bordesley Green area of Birmingham, England.
We explored an small abandoned zoo, Small interactive zoo featuring which used to feature over 75 species of invertebrates & reptiles, with a souvenir shop. Founded in 2012, Bugtopia seeks to teach people about bugs in an interactive and hands-on way. In doing this, they hope to bat away some of the stigma associated with some of the world’s humbler of creatures. Bugtopia won an award in their first year for their effective and educational approach to their first meet and greet.
Their mission, in their words, is to achieve “Conservation through Education”, to teach the importance of preserving the biodiversity of our world, whilst allowing visitors to get up close and personal with their exhibitions! They specialised in invertebrates and reptiles. #DeeExplores
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When exploring around Birmingham, we stumbled across this abandoned cannabis farm in Birmingham. It looks like they were scared off as there was still 2 rooms of plants not taken, but 2 completely gone! This has got to be one of the best explores we had came across and one what really shocked us.
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This place was as trashed as you expect most places are, with easy access for entry and straight to the roof, this building is one of the easiest yet good explores hidden in Birmingham. The footage is from the TikTok live we do every Saturday. To watch live join @deeexplores1.
After many unsuccessful attempts, we diecided to go back and try 1 last time!
This time we got in, enjoy the abandoned Royal British Legion Footage with us.
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About The Ivy Leaf: The 0.75Acres of landed this place is on is currently up for sale! The site currently comprises of a former social club building which comprises of part three storey, part single storey masonry with a mixture of flat and barrelled roofs over. The site has planning permission granted under 2021/06275/PA for the demolition of the existing structures and the creation of 50 apartments, a ground floor retail unit and associated parking.
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Rimstock LTD (Formally known as Rimstock PLC until 2017), based in West Bromwich, was a alloy wheel manufacture which was founded 22 January 1985. The 3 factories based in West Bromwich were closed down during 2023. The video of our explore is at the bottom of this post.
The biggets of the 3 factories (the one we explored) has Security, Dogs and an armadillo on site, we didnt notice this until we were nearly at the end of our explore when i look out the window and decided its time to go . Good job really as as we walked around the front of the building security were leaving the building and the dog was not in sight anymore, maybe looking for us.
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From speaking with locals and ex-employees, it is believed that the company went into administration in 2023, but with further research the company is still showing as running on companies house.
About Rimstock (Source Rimstock.com)
Rimstock has been acquired by JKM Developers & Sarb Capital (A Joint Venture), a deal that will safeguard the wheel manufacturing industry in Britain and ensure the future growth and success of the company.
Headquartered at the centre of the UK’s automotive industry, Rimstock design, manufacture, and supply alloy wheels, worldwide, to more than 40 countries, and is Britain’s leading prestige wheel manufacturer.
Founded in 1985, Rimstock’s West Bromwich, UK base comprises state-of-the-art facilities, taking customers initial design concepts, through to manufacture and distribution.
Specialising in the design and production of cast and forged wheels, Rimstock are the only company in the UK to have full testing facilities available to them in-house. These facilities are certified to test to German TUV approval standards and indicates that its alloy wheels have been manufactured to a very high standard, which exceeds or equals that of the original equipment fitted to the vehicle.
In 2018, a new plant was fully commissioned on site, specialising in the manufacture of Forged alloy wheels, with multi-million-pound support from the UK Government’s Regional Growth Fund. Forged alloy wheels offer OEM’s (Original Equipment Manufacturers) more complex designs – stronger yet lighter – and the result – Forged wheels being considerably lighter than Cast wheels – significantly improves vehicle breaking, handling and fuel economy.
Continued investment in innovative processes represents the futureproofing of Rimstock’s business and the evolution of alloy wheel manufacturing.
Opened in 1989 in a former Methodist church, The Que Club rapidly became the centre of Birmingham’s club culture, with nights such as Atomic Jam, Flashback, House Of God, Logical Progression and The Bubble Club. Carl Cox, David Holmes, Grooverider, Paul Oakenfold, Underworld, Massive Attack, Pete Tong and Andrew Weatherall all played here, and Daft Punk’s first live album, Alive 1997, was recorded at the venue.
The Que Club closed permanently in 2017 and the Grade II-listed building where it was located is now vacant. In The Que was create to preserve the cultural importance of the club and the nights it hosted, and was funded in part by a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
