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Urban Exploring: The Bottle Chamber
An Adelaide explorer kindly showed us this spot early last year. Knowing that we’re keen on seeing hidden abandoned places they contacted us and we arranged for them to show us their find. Impressed...
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Urban Exploring: Girl in the Window
This story takes place outside of Adelaide in rural South Australia. A fellow explorer was out exploring with a girlfriend when something truly frightening happened to her.Whether you believe in...
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Urban Exploring: Hart’s Mill
Captain John Hart 1870.Hart’s Mill is one of the most iconic buildings of Port Adelaide and is the longest continuously serving flour mill in South Australia, operating from 1855 to 1980. It was built...
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Urban Exploring: The Family Fallout Shelter
The Cold War (1947 – 1991)After World War II (1945), the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War. The two superpowers never engaged directly...
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Urban Exploring: Level3B
As our city rapidly urbanizes, parts of it get left behind. For too many people, existing consists of travel between work, shopping and home, oblivious to the countless wonders a city has to offer....
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Urban Exploring: RAAF Remote Semi-Underground Bunker
Secret Communication InstallationsDuring World War II, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) operated secret communication installations all over Australia to assist the Allied Forces in the Pacific....
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Urban Exploring: The Doomsday Bunker
Women to the RescueDuring World War II thousands of Australian men were conscripted and sent overseas to fight. It left us with an extreme labour shortage. After considerable lobbying by Australian...
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Urban Exploring: The Sleep’s Hill Railway Tunnels / Mushroom Tunnels
Just 8 kilometres from Adelaide, in the most attractive part of the Adelaide foothills, sit two old tunnels, which have had pasts as colourful and romantic as any ancient monument in the history of...
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Urban Exploring: The HMS Buffalo Ship / Family Restaurant
.themify_builder .text-6049-0-0-0.module-text{background-repeat: repeat} THE ORIGINAL HMS BUFFALOThe original HMS Buffalo was originally named the Hindostan and was built on the Hooghly river near...
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Urban Exploring: The Port Admiral Hotel
.themify_builder .text-6421-0-0-0.module-text{background-repeat: repeat} The HistoryThe building was built by Robert Sanders in 1849 (making her 169 years old), who named his hotel “Railway Hotel”...
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Urban Exploring: Hall Of The Dead Tunnel
.themify_builder .text-6656-0-0-0.module-text{background-repeat: repeat} It was last summer. There was a warm breeze blowing in from the north and the stars were shining brightly in the sky above....
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Expo: The Road Less Traveled 2018
When: Sunday 13th May 2018 Where: We’re going to be traveling to numerous disused/abandoned buildings and caves over a 400km journey. Cost: $25pp (covers fuel) Preference will be given to newby...
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Urban Exploring: Bikes & Bits
It’s hard to imagine this bando has sat around for several years. Back in 2015, a young explorer named Grebz took me to this spot. He showed me a number of locations but this one was vibrant with...
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Urban Exploring: Channel 9 Studios North Adelaide
Farewell Tynte StreetThis week marked Channel 9’s North Adelaide Studio’s end. Demolition of the historic studios was finally completed marking the end of an era from where Adelaide television first...
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Urban Exploring: Football Park / AAMI Stadium
The History of Football Park Footy Park as it’s affectionately known, was built in 1973 by the SANFL and opened in 1974. At the time it was the largest sports stadium in South Australia. The first...
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Urban Exploring: Shearer’s / John Shearer & Sons
John Shearer (1845–1932), founder of John Shearer and Sons of Kilkenny, South Australia. John Shearer John was born in the Orkney Isles on the 9th September, 1845, and came to Australia in 1852 at the...
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Urban Exploring: Golden Port Tavern
The History The Golden Port Tavern was originally named the Globe Hotel. She was built in 1865 on the site of a previous hotel which burnt to the ground. On ground floor was the main bar and snooker...
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Urban Exploring: Balfours Cafe & Tea Rooms
Scottish baker James Calder and his wife, Margaret (née Balfour), were bound for Melbourne when the trials of a long sea voyage led them to disembark in the newly-established town of Adelaide instead....
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Urban Exploring: LeCornu Furniture
Phillip Joshua Le Cornu In 1854, Phillip Joshua Le Cornu migrated from the UK to South Australia. He leased a small shop at 66 O’Connel Street North Adelaide and started a ‘cabinet manufactory’...
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Urban Exploring: Gilligan’s Island
Mika Hakkinen Crash It was Friday, November 10, 1995, on a warm spring morning in Adelaide. The qualifying session for the 1995 Adelaide Grand Prix was well underway when the international TV cameras...
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