So last night was the usual A&E Social, backwards tops theme this time, rather dissapointing turn out to start with however a few popped in for a chat later on which was good! After about 6 pints myself, T and A got a bit bored and decided we'd go for some post-drinking urb-exing, Dance Academy being the place of choice.
Dance Academy started off as a theater that got converted into a nightclub a decade or so ago, it has been abandoned now for about 6 years, after a drugs bust by the local police force. Since the bust, not a lot has changed - other than the building is rapidly deteriorating.
I ran back to my place beforehand to grab a few head torches and off we went, our usual route in and some bimbling and crawling led us to the main auditorium - its absolubtly huge, and in its own unique way still very beautiful, it was my second time there so I knew where most things were so we went off for ganders. Bottles of Reef and Smirnoff can still be seen on the tables, the same place they likely were when the drugs bust happened - its quite interesting to see a lot of things still very much in-situ. A journey to the roof led to me going up into the bell house that overhangs the road below - its very high and very unstable, proven by the amount of movement when I was on it. Most of its fastenings to the building including the gangway leading to it are rotten. Most of the building looks like something you'd expect in a zombie apocalypse.
By the time I got home after the trip it was around 6am, late night for sure! But well worth it, certainly not as sketchy as my first trip there, the long way into the auditorium is very dodgy.
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