RE: Tales of the Urban Explorer: St Joseph's Church

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The outside of it is amazing looking and deserves to have a proper place of residence. I really dislike when they take such a piece of architectural beauty and display it on a building lot. I realize it had different surroundings when it was built...

Is that really a garage in the first shot? I have never seen a church with one. I have no idea what you used for editing, but, the bricks have such an interesting-looking texture.Rathole LOL The inside of that is a dream. Why did nobody take over this and renovate it? They just don't make places like this anymore!

As you noted, the walls are very photogenic, and isn't that what we all look for? Something that photographs better than the real thing? The opposite is the nor. The floor looks like it once had tiles in some places. Hard to tell if it was carpeted and some tile or the tiles were ripped up. It looks like it was stripped down nicely when it closed, probably by the Church itself.

To escape, one slides down that board and hopes for the best.

Sweet Jesus! Literally. The panorama is stunning. Really. I can imagine how it looked. I can see even the stained glass is gone. When a church back home close, they auctioned off the stained glass to other churches that were interested. At least they kept it in the family. I admit that I am aghast at what you have to do to get these shots... although I would be the very last to complain, you get some pretty amazing pictures, made even more jaw-dropping when I see the places you scale, crawl over and shimmy up. Hello? For a big guy, you put most people to shame.

The parish debt bin came out really nice! Oh, thank God for creepy smoker dude and showing off the rat hole to crawl through! Hey, I really liked this one. It isn't often I get to see the inside of a place like that, in pretty great shape, if you ask me.

Thanks for the tour!



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Is that really a garage in the first shot?

Someone's garage or it could have been a business. We had to be quiet lest the owner heard us.

The glass was all gone, and if not.. so high up we couldn't see it.

Getting out the original route wasn't so tough, just slightly more awkward. Anything for an easier life!

For a big guy, you put most people to shame.

I'm not that big! At 22 the other workers would take the piss out of my skinny arms and wrists. Only recently has that dreaded 'spread' happened. Most people my age are quite a bit fatter. Being big is a massive disadvantage doing this. You can't fit through things etc..

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"Big" as in height. I would never call you big in any other way as you have the little woman that you need to keep up with, and her runs are legendary. :)

Still, neither one of us is a twenty-year-old, and your physical abilities as you wander the urbex landscape is pretty darned impressive.

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"Big" as in height. I would never call you big in any other way

I'm not actually that tall either, about 5'9'.. but you were not to know that. If you think I look like my avatar... well think again!

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Haha@ Nobody looks that crazy... right?

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