Lithgow/Blue Mountains abandos - Page 2

Scarecrow · 17 May 2014, 1:03 pm

That shed has been hit pretty hard by writers. Years ago there were motorbikes and a dune buggy in there, amongst a few other bits and pieces.

timdole · 18 May 2014, 8:58 am

Yeah, the place has been Mcfucked recently...
There's an old sandstone mine where they got the materials to build the castle, and then converted it into a pool in the area. It'd be about 3.5m x 2.5m. It now has a car body submerged in it.

A while back I was there, but there was a group of guys with vans cleaning out the place, and they seemed official, so I left them alone. Turned out they were just cleaning the crap off the floor so they could shoot a music video haha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOrwyJd ... e=youtu.be

Catching · 18 May 2014, 4:00 pm

Hahaha, awhile ago my mates and I wanted to film one of those crappy found-footage Slender Man movies at the castle.

A place as easy to get to and into such as that was doomed to be trashed from the start, I'm surprised the Lithgow Blast Furnace isn't covered in graff.

timdole · 18 May 2014, 5:04 pm

Too visible, that's why it's survived alright.

Shoe · 11 Jun 2014, 10:46 pm

Has anyone checked out Newnes? It's urbex lite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newnes,_New_South_Wales

In its heyday as an oil shale mine.

A map of the site.

Now

theedge · 11 Jun 2014, 10:56 pm

Shoe wrote:Has anyone checked out Newnes? It's urbex lite.

Newnes is pretty well known. You can just walk in just like the blast furnace and the other places round that area. Legal urbex in that sense.

Nineball · 12 Jun 2014, 7:08 pm

Shoe wrote:Has anyone checked out Newnes? It's urbex lite.

I've been there once - Newnes is best described as "a bushwalk with some heavily decayed buildings thrown in". Its scale is rather large and gives you a sense of the mining operations of the time, but there are no complete buildings or structures - just walls, foundations and heavily decayed pieces of brickwork. Also, it is heavily overgrown.

This is nice and atmospheric in its own right, but not really your standard sort of urbex where the fun is in exploring inside things. =)

Here's a few quick photos from my trip:

Catching · 12 Jun 2014, 8:31 pm

Glen Davis has more buildings rather than just ruins / mining materials, I think. Never been to either myself, hopefully someday soon.

Shoe · 14 Jun 2014, 10:02 pm

Nineball wrote:
Shoe wrote:Has anyone checked out Newnes? It's urbex lite.
I've been there once - Newnes is best described as "a bushwalk with some heavily decayed buildings thrown in". Its scale is rather large and gives you a sense of the mining operations of the time, but there are no complete buildings or structures - just walls, foundations and heavily decayed pieces of brickwork. Also, it is heavily overgrown.

This is nice and atmospheric in its own right, but not really your standard sort of urbex where the fun is in exploring inside things. =)

I went camping there over the long weekend. When was your trip?

Nineball · 14 Jun 2014, 10:27 pm

[quote="Shoe"I went camping there over the long weekend. When was your trip?[/quote]

Oops, I misread your post - thought you were asking what it was like!

I went there in December 2011 as part of a drive around that area looking for things to explore.

DarkClarky · 26 Nov 2014, 6:57 am

Newnes is best described as "a bushwalk with some heavily decayed buildings thrown in". Its scale is rather large and gives you a sense of the mining operations of the time, but there are no complete buildings or structures - just walls, foundations and heavily decayed pieces of brickwork. Also, it is heavily overgrown.

This is nice and atmospheric in its own right, but not really your standard sort of urbex where the fun is in exploring inside things. =)

^^Lol, you just gotta know where to look... :-)