Reader Annie Fernie points out that our own Roofers (see ‘Roofworld Comes True’) do it better than the Moscow mob, and from the shots these lads have been taking from their vantage points, I think she’s right. Follow her comment link for more astounding images and details of their vertiginous exploits on top of the city’s cranes at night. They must be mad, but what a result. Click to enlarge, and you can find big format versions of the shots they take on Flickr.
Absolutely splendid site Annie has opened to us – I enjoyed Subterranea Britannica before this so there looks to be a wealth of things to see and learn.
Mind you these posts have highlighted that if I don’t get back there for a last look around soon my old haunts about the Elephant and Castle are going to literally vanish.
Great photos of the London skyline at night, although you have to ask yourslef how much energy is being consumed. Still, quite breathtaking.
From one of the heart-fluttering shots taken on the Strata I can see my old bedroom window on the Rockingham.
Urban Exploration (or Urbex to the trendy)is quite the in thing. I got introduced to it via Paul Talling’s “Derelict London” book and site (http://www.derelictlondon.com/) and then found a colleage at work was a friend of one of London’s most dedicated Urban Explorer (http://www.simoncornwell.com/urbex/). His work on the old Cane Hill hospital site in Surrey is amazing. One of the best sources for this sort of thing is the book “Access All Areas” by Ninjalicious, the pen name of Jeff Chapman, a Toronto urban explorer who compiled the best of his newsletter “Infiltration” into one book, published just a few weeks befre his death by cancer in 2005. It’s a good book, detailing an activity I would like to devote more time to myself.