Places to see in ( Livingston - UK )
Places to see in ( Livingston - UK )
Livingston, is the largest town in West Lothian, Scotland. Designated in 1962, Livingston is the fourth post-Second World War new town to be built in Scotland. Taking it's name from the village of Livingston in West Lothian, it was originally developed in the-then counties of Midlothian and West Lothian. Livingston is about fifteen miles (25 km) west of Edinburgh and thirty miles (50 km) east of Glasgow, and is close to the towns of Broxburn to the north-east and Bathgate to the north-west.
Livingston was built around a collection of small villages, Livingston Village, Bellsquarry and Livingston Station (now part of Deans). It has a number of residential precincts or areas. These include Craigshill, Howden, Ladywell, Knightsridge, Deans, Dedridge, Murieston, Almondvale, Eliburn, Kirkton and Adambrae. To the north of Craigshill, lies the Houstoun Industrial Estate. The locality of Livingston as defined by the General Register Office for Scotland (GRO) includes Uphall Station and Pumpherston. The wider urban settlement, also as defined by the GRO, also includes Mid Calder and East Calder. Other neighbouring villages include: Kirknewton, Polbeth and West Calder.
Livingston is the second-biggest settlement in the Lothians after Edinburgh. Until 1963, the area surrounding the ancient village of Livingston was open farmland, and the ancient village is now called Livingston Village.
Livingston has three major shopping centres, and another three medium large retail parks and a cluster of small local stores located throughout the different areas. Livingston town centre sits on the southern edge of the Almond Valley. It is bounded by a ring road and has been purposely planned, distinguishing it from West Lothian's other town centres. Howden Park is located immediately north of the town centre. Livingston is the sub-regional centre serving West Lothian. It features one of the largest indoor shopping and leisure complexes in Scotland, The Centre (formerly Almondvale Shopping Centre) and the Livingston Designer Outlet
Livingston has excellent connections to the central Scotland road network. The M8 bounds Livingston in the north. The A899 dual carriageway spine road passes north south along Livingston's eastern edge and connects the M8 in the north to the A71 in the south and has the A89 to the west. Livingston has a central bus terminal located on Almondvale Avenue between the two shopping centres in the town centre. Livingston has three railway stations; Livingston North, Livingston South and Uphall Station.
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Places to see in ( Plockton - UK )
Places to see in ( Plockton - UK )
Plockton is a village in the Highlands of Scotland in the county of Ross and Cromarty with a population of 378. Plockton is a settlement on the shores of Loch Carron. It faces east, away from the prevailing winds, which together with the North Atlantic Drift gives it a mild climate allowing the Cordyline australis palm or cabbage tree to prosper.
Most of the houses date from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It was a planned community based on fishing in an attempt to stem the tide of emigration from the Highlands. The Church of Scotland in the village (also used by the Free Church of Scotland) was designed by Thomas Telford.
The village is a tourist resort. The television series Hamish Macbeth, starring Robert Carlyle, was filmed there, substituting for the fictional Lochdubh. Plockton was also used for various scenes in the film The Wicker Man and the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries television series.
The village has a small general store with a café; a takeaway; a restaurant; newsagent and craft shop; three hotels with pubs; numerous B&Bs; library with free internet access and a village hall, which holds community events and art exhibitions. It is served by Plockton railway station, on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line and the short Plockton Airfield for light aircraft and microlights.
Nearby is Duncraig Castle, a nineteenth-century stately home built by the Matheson family, who made their money in the opium trade. The castle was derelict for many years, having previously been used as an hospital, catering college, and a base for film crews. It was once owned by the extended Dobson family who were in the process of renovating it and this was shown in the BBC documentary titled The Dobsons of Duncraig. The castle was sold in 2009 to Suzanne Hazeldine. Plockton has been a popular location for many artists including those from The Edinburgh School (Adam Bruce Thomson, David Macbeth Sutherland) and continues to attract artists.
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Abandoned British Army Barracks - Attack of the pigeons!!
This was like Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds movie, I think me and my dog upset there home and they went a bit mental. I could hear them squawking and banging off the boarded up windows! This is just a short explore, not a great deal inside, most of buildings have been demolised/converted, but there's some nice flakey corridors and rooms.
Music soundtrack: Easy by Ocean Shiver.
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Winston Barracks was built in the 1930s to accommodate the Depot of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), whose previous deopt at Hamilton was becoming inadequate. The buildings were designed to embody all the latest devices of permanent construction.[2] and the cost was estimated to be in the region of £150,000. The buildings were mainly in Neo-Georgian style, the most prominent being the main H-shaped barrack block on the north side of the parade ground. Most of the buildings were constructed between 1935 and 1939 with completion of the complex in 1940, as attested by the dates on the rain water hoppers found high on the south elevation of the main barrack block. In 1939, with the Regiment about to move to its new accommodation, the Second World War broke out.
Instead of housing the Cameronians, 26 Primary Training Centre was established at Winston Barracks. The nearby racecourse was utilised during the war as a training area, for overflow camp accommodation and for practice trench-digging.
After the war, the Cameronians took up residence in 1947, alongside various training units. From 1961 the Barracks were shared by the Royal Highland Fusiliers and the Cameronians. Both regiments moved to the Lowland Brigade Depot at Glencorse Barracks, Edinburgh, when it opened in 1964. The 52nd Lowland Division took over the barracks until it closed in 1967. The married quarters were still in use in the early 70s, accommodating the families of soldiers stationed in Ritchie Camp.
At around the time (c. 1960) that RAF Kirknewton housed an American signals intelligence unit, Winston Barracks was known as RAF Lanark. Winston Barracks, like Ritchie Camp, the barracks adjoining RAF Kirknewton, was earmarked during the Cold War as an emergency 1,000-bed hospital for the US Navy.
Responding to a Commons Written Question on 26 February 1987, the Secretary of State for Defence stated that We have recently agreed in principle to make these sites (Winston camp, Lanark, and Ritchie camp, Kirknewton) available to the United States forces for use as peacetime medical storage facilities and as hospitals which would be activated in the event of war.[3] It was handed back by the US to the UK on 3 December 1991.
[edit]Redevelopment
In 1994, the Ministry of Defence relinquished all control of the site and sold it to a development company. In 2000, four of the buildings were listed: the Sergeants' Mess and the Accommodation Block were protected at category B,[4][5] while the Officers' Mess and Guardhouse were protected at category C(s).[6][7]
In 2008, planning permission was granted for the demolition of all of the barracks buildings, with the exception of the four listed buildings, and construction of 348 houses on the site. The four main buildings were to be converted into 45 luxury apartments.[8] As part of the redevelopment, the conversion of the category B listed Sandhurst Accommodation Block has created 20 townhouses and 16 two-bedroom apartments.[9] The former Sergeants' Mess is a now a luxury detached house.
Abandoned Limestone Mine - Underground Urban Exploration - Urbex
This one's quite big, and easy to get lost! There's alot of string been left by other explorers so it helped to navigate easier. I dragged my poor mum into this one, but she enjoyed her self anyway lol I think the entire way through the mine we done nothing but talk about the damn string. I'll have to upload a none music versions about it. This mine is one of the safer mines around anyway. Hope you guys like it :-)
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Britains Secret Cold War Nuclear Bunker Kelvedon Hatch
Regional Seats of Government or RSGs were the best known aspect of Britain's Civil Defence preparations against Nuclear War. In fact, however, naming conventions changed over the years as strategies in Whitehall changed. In the aftermath of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima and the Russian acquisition of the Atom bomb, it was clear that London could not survive a nuclear bombardment. Although considerable effort still went into secret construction of Military citadels under London, the solution was to disperse the machinery of Government into small pieces in the provinces, where there would be a greater chance of survival.
Experiments along these lines had, in fact, taken place during World War II, when a system of Regional Commissioners did exist, and key departments were moved out of London to Bath, Harrogate and Cheltenham, among others. However the idea of a Regional Commissioner dated back to the First World War and the 1926 General Strike.
The Civil Defence Corps was revived in 1948 by Act of Parliament, and the next year it was decided to construct a network of two-storey, hardened War Rooms built on Government sites and with concrete walls ranging from five to seven feet thick. Construction started in 1953 and was completed by 1965. The sites chosen were
Region 1 (Northern)
Kenton Bar outside Newcastle Upon Tyne, a former RAF operations room dating from 1940
Region 2 (North East)
Lawnswood, Leeds
Region 3 (North Midlands)
Chalfont Drive, Nottingham
Region 4 (Eastern)
Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge
Region 5 (London)
Five sub controls in the outer suburbs were established - see Civil defence centres in London
Region 6 (Southern)
Whiteknights Park, Reading
Region 7 (South West)
Flowers Hill, Bristol
Region 8 (Wales)
Coryton, Cardiff
Region 9 (West Midlands)
Shirley, Birmingham
Region 10 (Scotland)
Kirknewton, near Edinburgh
Region 11 (South East)
Tunbridge Wells
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Urbex Accidents and Silly Moments - Episode 1
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Some more raw footage collected, hope you guys enjoy. Sorry I haven't had any new videos of explores for a couple of weeks as I had to buy a new laptop so haven't had the money to do anything. Will have new videos uploaded next week :-)
(4K) Scotrail Class 385 Croy to Haymarket 15/2/19
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How times charge on UK Railways in Scotland with a lot of 385s now seen on the E&G Line I decided to hop on one for a ride down to Haymarket, which was a 7 car 385 which we had a great run down the E&G Line and it was all filmed on a nice winter sunny day on Friday 15th February 2019.
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Abandoned Gas Tower Climb - Disaster Explore! Urban Exploration Urbex -
The most disastrous explore I've ever done! Me being me I prefer to take the stealthy route to get into places instead of the easy main gate way which will more than likely be where the cctv is. I made my way around the side, faced with about a 9-10 feet wall to climb. I found a part where some trees were and managed to climb up and step over on the top of the wall. As it was raining I decided I'd put my video camera in my bag so it didn't get wet. I went to open up my bag and put it back in, only to lose my grip and watch the painfull sight of my £800 camera fall off the other side of the wall and thud off the ground. I began to panic, desperate to get down to get it but there were no trees at the other side to climb down.
I decided to leave my hat and my shoulder tripod on top of the wall so I would know where I dropped it. I walked along the wall but couldn't see any trees to climb down. The rain was getting heavier, probably soaking my camera, so I decided to just hang down and jump. Luckily I landed ok! I quickly found my camera, turned it on and it seemed to working ok, so I packed it away in my bag.
I decided I'd use my action camera, only to look down(it was on a chest mount harness) only to see it wasn't there. I went back to the bit where I dropped down off the wall and found it straight away, but broke the screw mount so could no longer attach it to the harness, so I put it in my pocket.
I made my way through the bushes and trees and reached the bottom of the gas tower. I slowly snuck closer and closer to the ladders where you climb up, checking for guard houses, or cctv etc. I filmed around the bottom with my main camera, but again it started to rain heavy, so put the camera back in my bag and use my now broken action camera that was in my pocket and film with that instead. Standing over a pool of water, I took the camera out my pocket, only to drop it straight into thick, black, oily water! I tried to fish it out quicky but couldn't find or reach it so soon gave up. £200 worth of equipment now gone.
Eventually I started to climb up the ladders, and make my way to the top of the tower. I went all the way to the top, but for some reason there were no walk ways, so it wasn't very safe without a harness, and with it being rainy it was quite slippy so decided to film from the 3rd level.
I filmed a little, then took some photos, but then saw some blue flashing lights from the road across from me. I decided to get down as quickly and safely as possible in case it was the police and I had been spotted(which turned out not to be).
Heading back out the way I came and reaching that big bloody wall which was probably half the height of me, I found a tree that I could climb up to get up on to it. I jumped up and grabbed the branch, then swung my legs over and wrapped them around, but my tripod got stuck on a branch behind me and I couldn't pull my self up fully. So, hanging there on the branch, nearly upside down like a monkey, about 5 feet in the air, I tried to unhook my tripod from the branch. Suddenly I heard a crunch from the branch I was hanging on...and snap! I didn't just fall 5 feet on to my back onto some grassy bushes...there was a 4x4 old broken fence post laying on the ground which I landed right on top off, knocking the wind out my self, and feeling an awful pain in my ribs and leg. After getting my breath back, I stood up. Feeling ok I tried to climb the tree again and managed to get up and stepped over to the wall. I found another tree at the other side, and ended up sliding down it like a firemans pole as my arms and back were so sore and tired.
Annoyingly I had to make my way back to the part where I first climbed the wall, and get my hat and shoulder mount I left on top of the wall so I knew where to find my camera.
I've never been so glad to get back the van lol I must have spent about 3 hours trying to up the tower and back out, and only about 30 minutes actually at the top. I didn't get much footage or photos which was annoying.
I'm pissed off I lost the camera as it takes me such a long time to save up and buy my equipment, but hey ho, that's Urbex for you!
Was it worth it? Hell yes! Would I do it again? Fuck no.
ex-SPT/Abellio ScotRail Class 318s in action
The British Rail Class 318 is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train, which operates exclusively in the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport network in West Central Scotland. The units were introduced fully on 29 September 1986 as part of the electrification of the Ayrshire Coast Line between Glasgow Central and Ayr/Ardrossan with alternating current (AC) overhead lines. Usage was extended to Largs in January 1987. They were also used on the Inverclyde Line in small numbers. The trains currently operate Argyle and North Clyde Line services. Between 2005 and 2007, all Class 318s have undergone a conversion process which involves the removal of the corridor connection on the driver's cars. Although one may see this as detrimental to passenger operations, there have been no great problems with the Class 334 or Class 320 units which also have no corridor connections. Apart from 'cleaning up' the appearance of the driver's cars, this allows the driver to have a far more spacious operating environment and gives the driver a better overall view. In appearance, modified units are very similar to the first batch of Class 150 diesel sprinters, which were also based upon the Mark 3 bodyshell but lacked end corridors.
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Urbex Accidents and Silly Moments - Episode 2 - Urban Exploration
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Some more accidents and silly moments!
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