Originally Posted by
Gerard Fleming
I live on the doorstep, I'm around there all the time taking photos...
I get on with the kids and they are all OK..I'll vouch for that personally.
The only things dodgy Ste going on in Eldon Grove are the gypsies arriving daily
(when the gates were open..) loading their wagons stealing the boilers and metal...
and the Polish imigramts in the flats stealing the copper cables...
I know..I saw it and walked up to them and took their photographs...
and I suspect it was these people cutting and burning power cables that caused the recent fire..
Maybe the people around there have had enough of Eldon Grove being invaded and robbed by outsiders..
Maybe the kids are trying to keep them out... and thats what I think for what its worth..
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100% spot on.... if I see macho men "explorers" in combat keks trying to look dead hard hanging around there I'll tell them where to go as well....
I was 1 of them explorer's confronted by say 8 black tracksuit clad scum, aged between say 16-18 the other day mate,they spotted us going in & at 1st,they thought we were coppers with the trying to be funny comments of "what yer doing there copper??" then when the penny dropped which was after 5 mins because we all know how thick the black tracky scum can be & they tried to tax us...
We made our way around to the front of the building to which a few minutes later the clad followed us in,at this point i thought sod it,it's not worth the hassle,we got out but still the gang continued to follow us all the way to Grt Homer St then we lost em..
I am not what you said,this so called "macho men "explorers" in combat keks trying to look dead hard hanging around" i was simply trying to document the place by simply takin photographs like other's before me have & you have also done yourself ...
I have been a explorer for a few years now & really enjoy it,i do not break into buildings or steal from buildings,i simply just take pics & leave. I feel documentation is important esp when a building has been closed for a number of years & the community is trying do something about it & if i have pics of a particular building they are trying to get up & running, i will always give my pics free of charge to the community group & the Lpool echo to which i have done in the past...
So i think there is a big difference in someone walking around a site in a pair of combat kecks with a camera & tripod than a person walking around tooled up with instruments to strip & steal...
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