In this urban exploration, we explore the remains of Liberty Pressings — from rusting machinery and empty production halls to hidden details most people never get to see. This explore was carried out respectfully and responsibly. 📍 Location: Coventry, West Midlands
🏭 Site: Liberty Pressings (Abandoned)
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Throwing it right back to 2017, when we explored the abandoned Hall Green Dogs Stadium.
Thanks to Jellyfish on the pics!
Hall Green Greyhound Stadium opened in 1927, right in the heart of Birmingham, during the golden age of greyhound racing. For decades it was one of the city’s biggest sporting and social venues, drawing thousands through its gates week after week. The stadium wasn’t just about racing — it was about community. Families, workers, regulars with their favourite dogs, the sounds of the crowd, the bookmakers shouting, and the smell of food drifting through the stands.
At its peak, Hall Green was a huge operation. It hosted major races, employed large numbers of local people, and became a landmark for the area. During and after the war years it remained popular, offering people escapism and entertainment at a time when life was far from easy. Generations grew up with memories of nights spent here.
But as the years went on, attendance declined. Changing habits, rising costs, and the slow decline of greyhound racing hit hard. In 2017, after nearly 90 years of racing, Hall Green Dogs finally closed its doors. What was once full of noise and movement was suddenly left behind.
Walking through it abandoned was surreal. Empty stands where crowds once cheered. The track slowly being reclaimed by nature. Old signage, peeling paint, and rooms that felt like they’d been left in a hurry — all frozen in time. You could almost imagine the echoes of the past still hanging in the air.
Places like this remind you how quickly everything can change. From one of Birmingham’s most loved venues to complete silence.
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This explore was one of the best hospitals we have come across. From hospital records left behind dating back to the mid-1900s, to old X-ray machines, this place genuinely looked like a zombie apocalypse had happened.
Huge thanks to MOD Dan 2 for the photos — without them, a few short videos! 😄
This explore started with no messing about; we just sent it. There was still an active section of the hospital on site, so we began by dodging cameras and checking windows and doors on the lower floors before climbing up to the roof to find our way in.
Once we dropped in, this explore was like no other hospital we had ever done. It was a true time-capsule hospital, with mid-1900s paper patient records simply left behind. In one room, there was an old, decaying X-ray machine still lying there.
As we continued exploring, we didn’t get the chance to reach the upper levels, as our explore was cut short by the police arriving with dogs to find us.
Here’s some history on the Hospital –
This hospital has a long history dating back to the mid-19th century, originally established to serve a growing industrial town and its surrounding rural communities. Built during a time when healthcare was rapidly evolving in Britain, the site expanded steadily to meet increasing demand, particularly during periods of war, epidemics, and population growth.
Throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s, the hospital became a key medical centre, offering treatments that were considered advanced for their time. New wards, operating theatres, and specialist departments were added over the decades, reflecting changes in medical practice and technology. During both World Wars, the site played an important role in treating injured service personnel and civilians alike.
By the mid-20th century, the hospital was fully integrated into the newly formed National Health Service, continuing to provide care for generations of local families. However, as healthcare needs changed and newer facilities were built elsewhere, parts of the site became outdated. Gradual downsizing followed, with sections closing and services being relocated.
Eventually, the hospital fell silent, leaving behind corridors frozen in time. Paper records, medical equipment, and forgotten rooms now tell the story of decades of care, innovation, and human experience — a true time capsule of Britain’s medical past.
Hope you enjoy these images and the documentation of this hospital. Catch you all on the next explore.
We set out to explore an abandoned Odeon cinema, expecting dark corridors and forgotten screens — but things didn’t go to plan. While the cinema itself stayed sealed, we uncovered access to nearly every surrounding building instead.
Urban exploration doesn’t always go how you expect, and this one turned into a completely different adventure. Join us as we search for entry, explore what we can, and show the reality of exploring abandoned places when access just isn’t there.
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Big thanks to MOD Jelly on the Photographs and MOD Dan2 on editing!
As a kid, I lived opposite this abandoned site for about 13 years, long before I became an explorer. It was obvious that this would definitely be a building I’d explore one day. Some of the history surrounding this building is quite dark. There are rumours online of a tunnel system used by MI5 and MI6, and claims that the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors of the block were also used by MI5 and MI6. There are multiple reports of people being moved via the tunnels and of individuals being brainwashed at this location. How true this is, I am unsure.
We explored this building back in 2016, and it was not easy at all. With security based inside the building and positioned at the rear, it was challenging to gain entry. We explored this building around 15 times, popping back and forth to try and find out more about what this place was used for. This has to be one of the most interesting explores.
The Powergen building once stood at the junction of Stratford Road and Haslucks Green Road in Shirley, Solihull. It was part of the offices for the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB), which later became Powergen — one of the companies formed after the UK electricity industry was privatised.
The building was designed in the 1960s by notable Birmingham architect John Madin, who also designed other major local structures such as the old Birmingham Central Library. Its style reflected the era’s modernist/brutalist trends, making it distinctive but also controversial among local residents.
Powergen vacated the site in the mid-1990s, around 1995, leaving the building largely unused for many years. After closure, the site sat derelict for decades and became a familiar, if slightly eerie, landmark in Shirley.
In 2015, while still abandoned, the building’s decaying appearance made it an ideal filming location for the zombie movie The Girl With All the Gifts (starring Glenn Close). The production used the site’s rugged, abandoned atmosphere to depict a post-apocalyptic setting.
The Powergen building was demolished in 2017 to make way for redevelopment. Today, the site has been transformed into Solihull Retirement Village (also known as Solihull Village) — a modern residential community with homes and facilities for people over 55.
This has to be one of our most challenging explores yet — easily the best one we’ve done so far! Exploring the abandoned Coventry Baths was an absolute mission. Huge credit to MOD Dan 2 for these photos — we couldn’t have shown this place like this without her.
Our first attempt goes all the way back to May 2024, when me, Brummy Explores, Jellyfish, That One Explorer, and Ghosty headed out to check the place out. Me, Brummy, and Ghosty jumped straight over while Jelly and That One Explorer kept watch out front as we searched for a way inside Coventry Baths.
We eventually tried the front doors, climbing right in front of security. Safe to say he wasn’t impressed — so we backed off and marked that attempt as a bust.
Attempt number two came in August 2024. Me, Brummy Explores, and That One Explorer returned and climbed over everything we could find, checking every possible entry point. Nothing was safe enough — every option was either too dangerous or a guaranteed injury (or worse), so again we had to call it quits.
As the saying goes, third time lucky. We headed back once more, January 2025, me, Brummy Explores, and MOD Dan 1 & 2 — hoping this would be the time. After climbing around and checking every entrance we could, we finally found an open door. Straight in through a fire exit… and suddenly we were inside the abandoned Coventry Baths, staring out over the bowling green.
Once we got in, we honestly didn’t know where to start. This place is huge — from the Olympic-sized pool to the slides and slipper baths, plus a three-storey sports area, kids’ play zone, and even a restaurant. It was clear this explore would take more than one day.
We returned over the next week, with Bando Hunters, That one Explorer and others digging into the history and making sure we didn’t miss a single part of the site… right up until we were caught in the main swimming pool area by the same security guard who spotted us back in August. Fair play to him — he finally got us!
🏛 A little history about Coventry Baths
Coventry Central Baths were built after World War II to replace older bathhouses destroyed in the Coventry Blitz. The building opened in 1966, designed as a modern leisure complex with an Olympic-sized pool, two smaller pools, a three-storey sports hall, kids’ play areas, and even a restaurant. Its W-shaped glass roof and sun terraces made it a striking civic landmark.
Before this, the city had older Victorian-era public baths dating back to 1894. These included slipper baths — private bath cubicles for those who didn’t have bathrooms at home. Slipper baths were a huge part of public hygiene in the 19th and early 20th centuries, giving people a safe, private place to bathe.
Over the decades, Coventry Baths became a hub for community sports, swimming lessons, and local competitions. Sadly, like many public leisure complexes, usage declined, and maintenance costs rose. The baths eventually closed in 2020, leaving behind the enormous, abandoned building we explored — a relic of Coventry’s postwar civic pride and social history.
Back at the start of November, myself, Brummy Explores, MOD Dan1, MOD Ry, and that one explorer stumbled into an adventure we never expected to have — effectively “breaking into” a prison.
(For the record, we didn’t actually break in… it just sounds cooler.)
We started the day by scouting out the site and quickly noticed a dog unit had been posted on location. Instead of putting us off, it made the explore feel even more intense. We continued searching for the best point on the wall to get over.
Eventually, we found the perfect spot. With that, it was time to commit — no questions, no messing about. One by one we climbed the ladder, sitting on top of the wall while waiting for the last person to get up so we could pull the ladder over and begin exploring the abandoned HMP Reading.
This explore turned out to be one of the best — and eeriest — we’ve ever done. We spent around three hours inside during the morning, taking photos, filming, and imagining what life must have been like for the prisoners, officers, and everyone who worked within those walls.
After exploring every part of the prison we could access, we decided it was time to go, making our “great escape” back over the wall and out.
Later, while passing by again before leaving Reading, we noticed the prison was fully lit — the power was on. Obviously, we had to take advantage of that. So we sent it back inside to capture nighttime shots and experience what a prison feels like after dark.
This second explore didn’t last long. We were caught by three security officers and two dogs — and that was our cue to leave, fast.
A Bit of History: HMP Reading
HMP Reading, originally known as Reading Gaol, was built in 1844 and designed by architect George Gilbert Scott. The prison became well known for its radial design, based on the “separate system” intended to keep prisoners isolated from one another.
It housed both men and young offenders over the years and is most famously associated with Oscar Wilde, who was imprisoned there from 1895–1897. His experiences later inspired The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
The prison officially closed in 2013, and since then has remained largely unused, occasionally opening for exhibitions, events, and rare public tours. Its imposing Victorian architecture and long history make it a well-known site in UK urban exploration.
Credits
Massive credit to MOD Dan1 for providing the photos from this explore — couldn’t have captured it the same without him.
Join us as we step inside Nottingham’s massive abandoned Guild Hall complex, including the old police station, courtrooms and fire station! What should’ve been a quiet explore quickly turned into one of the craziest nights we’ve ever had…
Inside, we unexpectedly bumped into around 20 other explorers wandering the corridors, police cells and fire station bays. The atmosphere was unreal — echoing footsteps, voices through empty hallways, and that eerie feeling.
Just as we were making our way out, things got even more intense when we ran into security, turning this explore into a heart-pounding rush to the exit.
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