Abandoned buildings in New Zealand?

[Craig_Bastard]

Lake Alice Mental Hospital between Wanganui and Bulls is pretty sweet. Snuff has some awesome photos of the place.

Yeah been there a couple of times, freaky place even in daylight. They have started pulling the place down now and put up some pretty recent "Tresspassers will be arrested" signs.

After a couple of gigs in Palmy, "Ahh we got a new guy in the band, lets go to lake Alice!"

Good times, Good times.

There was this abondoned house across the road from Poodle in N.P. Some local skinheads used to live next door and even being next door freaked them out (Kickboxing Champions, so they wernt exactly pussys). Got a couple of cool photos of the place, but it got burnt down a while ago. First time Skate took me there, we were going through a hole in the wall at night time, whole house was overgrown, and im thinking "Something bad is gonna happen" and right then, my Cramps t-shirt got a big rip in it. Suck.

[furious george]

next time ur in napier marms, the hospital on the hill that our place is on is epmty. go gurney racing through the morgue if you like

[Marms]

oh man you shoulda told me when we crashed at yours, i woulda been so keen to check it out

[Craig_Bastard]

next time ur in napier marms, the hospital on the hill that our place is on is epmty. go gurney racing through the morgue if you like

Is the whole thing empty?

[rryan]

It's super annoying how AK city closed down all the tunnels, it could of been a money making thing for them . . or something. I mean I'd pay $5 or so to be given a map and a torch and told to go for my life in the tunnels.

Would be awesome.

Stupid mystikal mother fuckers. There are no such things as ghosts, spirits or bad vibes.
Every abandoned place is creepy because it's your head. Your stupid little heads, thinking about shit like ghosts, spirits and stupid bad vibes. Stupid fucking dickheads.

fucking bible basher.

How would you get a tusk here? Isn't ivory illegal?

yeah, it is illegal...but it was there

[the ledge]

Use to be able to get into the Albert Park tunnels via an entrance exposed in tree roots next to the Constitution Hill stairs. Did a mission through there years ago and it went on for fuckin ages. Tunnels have been almost filled up with soil to limit the effects of a collapse but there's still enough space to crawl through and occaisionally you come across open chambers.

Ergh, screw having to crawl through in a tunnel...

[norty]

in a chamber that appears after crawling for around 80m on your stomach there were old beer cans. Shit place for a drinking session

[Dan Last]

Stupid mystikal mother fuckers. There are no such things as ghosts, spirits or bad vibes.
Every abandoned place is creepy because it's your head. Your stupid little heads, thinking about shit like ghosts, spirits and stupid bad vibes. Stupid fucking dickheads.

fucking bible basher.

wat

[niXon]

There's also ones up by the pillboxes in Campbells Bay. Last time I was there the council stuck a big padlock on the gate and locked us and our cars in, so we just got a socket wrench and spanner and took the whole gate off

What's up now, Auckland District Council?

Haha, yeah we've been locked in up there too. Had to call some gay security company to come let us out. Dude gets there, says the fine is $150 (After opening the gate already), so we just drove out... he didn't try stop us.

Those tunnels are fucking awesome that you enter through the pillboxes. Have to squeeze through what looks like an impossible gap in the bars. It's quite stink tho when ten of you get through and have to leave one larger friend sitting outside on his own. Is that the gate you are talking about that you took off? Or the entrance to the carpark?

[Akuma]

Stupid mystikal mother fuckers. There are no such things as ghosts, spirits or bad vibes.
Every abandoned place is creepy because it's your head. Your stupid little heads, thinking about shit like ghosts, spirits and stupid bad vibes. Stupid fucking dickheads.

hahaha

[the ledge]

There's also ones up by the pillboxes in Campbells Bay. Last time I was there the council stuck a big padlock on the gate and locked us and our cars in, so we just got a socket wrench and spanner and took the whole gate off

What's up now, Auckland District Council?

Haha, yeah we've been locked in up there too. Had to call some gay security company to come let us out. Dude gets there, says the fine is $150 (After opening the gate already), so we just drove out... he didn't try stop us.

Those tunnels are fucking awesome that you enter through the pillboxes. Have to squeeze through what looks like an impossible gap in the bars. It's quite stink tho when ten of you get through and have to leave one larger friend sitting outside on his own. Is that the gate you are talking about that you took off? Or the entrance to the carpark?

Carpark entrance. Fuck calling them up for them to open it. We saw the guy taking down the number plates but were too far away to run up and try leave. Would've been great when someone went back in the morning and the cars were gone, pad lock still on the gates

[niXon]

Yeah we had found a way out down the bank next to that house up there, bit rugged but would have got out. Only reason we waited was because there were about 4 other cars with people sitting waiting who had already called. I don't know what their excuse was to get locked in, we were 20 feet underground half a km away. Maybe the security company just sneaks the gate closed and fucks off.

[the ledge]

I'd say they would often lock people in cause their day is pretty uneventful and it would be funny. I'm saying this cause if it was my job to lock gates, I would definitely lock people and their cars in

[niXon]

[loucke = shit]

there is a house in hamilton, lemme google it

ok, must be number 1 sunset dr, it's actually on western heights drive, off newcastle road.

some dude was building a mansion I heard, broke up with his wife or whatever, and the place never got lived in/finished, it's a fucking mansion, and it's abandoned. go play a show there. chur

first street on the left, house on the corner, huge white place, had been empty for like over 5 years, can't see why it won't still be.

[Huey]

There are no such things as ghosts, spirits or bad vibes.

woah woah woah woah

Hold up.

I can def. sense negative/bad vibes.

[nails]

Anyone know where all these tunnels are all over the North Shore? Keen to check them out. I know of North Head, and the one by North Head at the end of Lake Road. Apparently there's one near Hoyts in Wairau Park, but you have to run across the motorway to get to it, which I'm not really keen for. There's also ones up by the pillboxes in Campbells Bay. Last time I was there the council stuck a big padlock on the gate and locked us and our cars in, so we just got a socket wrench and spanner and took the whole gate off

i live around the corner from wairau park, never heard of a tunnel around here but id be mega keen to find one!
the secret to getting past bars is to put a car jack between the bars and wind it untill the gap is big enough to fit through
im guessing the camples bay ones youre talking about are the kennedy park ones? they didnt always used to have bars on them, i remember my dad taking us through when we were little. you can still get into tunnels in that park, there are holes in the side of the hills that are un covered.
aparently thwere are full on aeroplanes under north head, just covered over by a big ass brick wall :s anyone else heard of that?

long bay has a few tunnels if you go bush walking for a bit, some of them are quite dangerous to climb down to, but once you get down to them its sweet.



i guess i was wrong about rangitoto, i was under the impression that the whole island was tapu land now.

edit: screwed up the quote thing

[Draizuh]

Hah! buzzy, deniston/millerton is where my family is from. my grandfather used to live in deniston.

there is also kimberly hospital just outside of levin. its all gated up and shit but pretty sure its abandoned, my old man used to work there.

im keen to scope out around london, heaps of unused tube stations and tunnels. like that one prodigy filmed firestarter in..

[xWhenItPainsItRoarsx]

cool thread.

[Craig_Bastard]

I was pretty sure that once the owners of a bach died the property had to be passed back to the govt on Rangitoto and all the last owners were real old now??

I think the tunnels go right under Albert Park. I remember about 8 years ago some guy trying to get the council to let him open them up as a tourism business. I think it was around the same time that the whole - is it a conspiracy or is it real - thing came out about the planes in devonport.

When I first left home I moved into The People's Centre which was a semi abandoned building on Custom Street. We had the best bb gun wars running through that empty old place.

I can't for the life of me remember the place at the bottom of sentinel though??

[Skatie]

Yep that last post was me and not Craig.....

[norty]

Yeah some guy did want to turn the Albert Park tunnels into a market, they run right under the park, quite extensive. The place at the bottom of Sentinel is pretty new. Cliff top mansion that never got completed. Google Albert Park tunnels and theres a good site with maps and photos of dudes who went for an explore back in 96. Theyve all been filled up with clay bricks but, so its unlikely theyll ever be opened to the public

[the ledge]

aparently thwere are full on aeroplanes under north head, just covered over by a big ass brick wall :s anyone else heard of that?

Yeah I remember my dad telling me this. I went up North Head last night during the storm. Could've been stormier tbh

And yeah I do mean Kennedy Park. I'll try find out where the tunnel in Wairau Park is

[nails]

did you find it yet?

[niXon]

Let's go find it tonight.

[cirE]

Also there's that shit as building near the Park and Ride in Albany, to the side of the motorway, with all the walls smashed out and shit. Last time I went to go in that the whole place was about knee deep in water so didn't go in though.

just noticed this

does not look like it would flood?

[the ledge]

did you find it yet?

Nah, asked around but I got no replies, and haven't gone looking myself

Let's go find it tonight.

I'll go look sometime, not tonight though. I'll keep trying to find out if there is one there, just so we don't look for nothing

does not look like it would flood?

It floods hardout as, around it there is a trench (or was) which went about waist deep, and the inside of it was about knee deep. I looked at it the other day though, and it's barely even a building anymore, more of a skeleton

[Brento]

I've heard of the tunnels also. Would be awesome for auckland to use them purposeful. Maybe a subway or something. Imagine that foot-long sandwhiches underground!


Bowen St

http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/other/albert/

lots of info!


Nails I'm keen for your tunnel aye

[crack-eswrong]

oww g.

I've heard of the tunnels also

why dont you just go to devenport and live in those bunkers .and find some crack head flat mate.

[the croc]

Dunno if it's been mentioned yet but I just went and checked out the Wright Hill Fortress in the weekend in Karori. They had a gun that could nearly hit the South Island from Wellington and shattered windows when they test fired it after the WWII. Man that is sweet.

Edit found some more info:

Two huge 9.2 inch guns were installed by the Army in 1944, after arriving by ship fom England. The whole gun weighed 135 tons, with the barrel alone weighing 28 tons. The order for the third gun was cancelled after an improvement in the Pacific war situation. The guns could fire a 380 pound (172 kg) shell up to 18 miles (30 km) across Cook Strait towards Tory channel, or up as far as Plimmerton. Each shell was about three feet (1 metre) long and was propelled by two half charges of 62 pounds (28kg) of cordite. The guns of course never fired in anger but were test fired, each with three rounds, in 1946 and 47 after the War. The Army reported later that the "proofings," as they were called, were "most satisfactory". Broken windows resulted at the Fortress after the blasts.

The Fortress was used for training purposes up to the mid 1950's but a Government decision in early 1960 resulted in the guns being cut up for scrap and being sold, ironically, to the Japanese. The gun emplacements were filled with rubble and other equipment removed from the Fortress.

http://www.whfrs.org.nz/