This subway featured in the book ‘Cocky, the Rise and Fall of Curtis Warren’. Curtis Warren aka Cocky reportedly managed to evade undercover Police who were surveilling him, via the subway. The book, from memory, had photos of Warren et al at the services. Nice video George.
@g2emedia1977 whilst watching his concrete/matal coming in the lorry's.. full of cocaine..they did eventually link him by being present every time the lorries were. The police when drilling in couldnt reach the coke which is why he got away with it so long. They had to be lifted up and drilled from underneath.
Great Video George ... As a 9 year old kid in 1974 my dad and me went for a drive along the new M62 motorway (we lived on the Childwall Valley Estate, opposite the Coronation pup now a Lidl) we stopped at that place and walked through the subway and back again. So you brought back good memories! again a Great Video!
I'd forgotten how ubiquitous those small mosiac tiles were in the seventies, not just in subways, but, places like St John's market, and butchers and fishmongers. Your delight in stumbling on examples like this is infectious!
This was a true blast from the past. Me and my best mates - one a car owner, would go to Butonwood after the Liverpool clubs closed at 2am to get coffee and cake!. I also used it as my "Hi Mum! Home in about an hour " calling point when on leave from the army in mid 70's to mid 80's well before mobile phones. Love all urban explorer stuff and now subscribed :)
Back in the 70s, me and my mates, would often drive in convoy from Liverpool to Burtonwood services at night, hang about there, then go back home. Good times. Interesting video 👍🚙👍
@@tartanspear really wow thats boss I spent so much time here for all those month driving the 700 bus up to manchester i was gutted when the route finished Thanls for watching glad you enjoyed the video
Great video George I remember when it was open on both sides. I still get on and off there every day back and to to Liverpool. Keep up with your interesting stuff. Great work 😊
Thanks alan glad you enjoyed the video i cannot remember the subway but then again when i used to park up in the bus i had no reason to go over to the services Thanks for watching matey
Enjoyed that. Also live in the area and remember both sides of the services being open. And sneakily using the services to exit the motorway, before junc 8 was fully built.
Great video. Love Subways. When I grew up in East London a subway near me was actually in the Movie Harry Brown with Michael Caine and Plan B 😂🤣 Nice one 👍🌞🇬🇧☮️🙏
I'm new to your channel, this came up as a suggestion and I watched it from start to finish, brilliant content mate, I've subscribed and look forward to watching your future and past vids, great work.
GREAT vidio George , remember both sides well , still use the coach bays in my current job.. the old police station was the old motorway police station , most service stations in the uk had their own police station , now known as motorway policing officers , but based at local stations now.. very interesting m8 , well done 👍
Thanks for watching bill the copper said it was a shame it was left as they npw have no base would have loved to see inside it as its proper 1970s style I quite like my services my other fave one is charnock richards
Really enjoyed this so far, funny to see my local B&M car park be featured at the beginning. I know what my plan for the day is now though, Starbucks and a explore 👊
Ha ha yeh that tash he was a good sport though Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed the video i do plan on going back here at night for some arty light painting
@@tompybis4521 im so glad i pushed on and found the entrance that was open originally i was just going to go the east side but wow what a place Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed it
Great video. I remember using these services a number of times before they closed. I'm fairly sure for a period the closed down side was still open from the M62 and you'd have to park and then walk under the tunnel to get to the still open building, think this was not long before they demolished the building and removed (nearly) all traces - so this bought back some great memories. Incidentally, was the bus you used to drive the 700?
We started many a Liverpool away game in the 1970s from Burtonwood. We would catch the last H1 crosville bus from speke to penketh on a Friday night' And start to thumb a lift To our away game. We would of used this tunnel many times..great day's 😊😊
Interesting mooch. I'll often equip myself with a pair of secetuers whilst doing this sort of urbex, they really come of good use hiking through bramble, however clearing a way through can be time consuming.
I work just around the corner from there lol. Frequent Tim Horton for my breakfast. I remember the westbound services actually being open. I've known about the tunnel for a while but never knew it still existed. The problem with getting through places like that is that security might think you are casing the perimeter of their premises for a hit lol.
Great video George,, that was like a bush tucker challenge lol 😆. Fair play for this one though lad . When in use I'd have been through it loads of times. Thanks for sharing 👍 😊
The last time I visited the westbound services, there was an 18-30 holiday reunion meet up. On their way to pontins I guess. What a racket. All beeping the horns and shouting at each other. It looked like fun to be honest.
I do plan on a visit to skem soon havent been there for years If the clockwork orange subway wasnt so far away id deffo be visiting that Thanks for watching
@@g2emedia1977I learned from mates mums in the 70s who said the Yanks used to lay on a bus in Liverpool for girls to go to party at Burtonwood camp during the War.
The first road you entered on the west side was an old service road next to the petrol station on the west side services that police and employees could use to get access to the services without using the motorway and had barriers to stop just anyone using but the barriers would be open sometimes and you could that road to exit if you were sneaky 😂, I walked through that subway back I the 90s, can't believe how well preserved it looks with no maintenance for decades.
Many a Saturday night after Legends in Burtonwood services. Too many cars, once you were in you were stuck for a few hours. most weekends we would be there when 'normal people' would start to go out for the day. Great times
Great video good job…I have stopped here in my truck for 35 years and pulled on there for my break only last Friday, always wondered why it was such a faffing about ge on and off these services especially westbound.
Use to go to there with my mates from earlestown on our mopeds up the side road off the small roundabout circa 1978, if I remember correctly there has only ever been 1 service area on Eastbound, the other side may have been or was going to be just a car park to walk under from 🤔.
That explains that then. I've noticed the concrete of the bridge before and had a look on google maps, but assumed it was a culvert. Another query ticked off the list, cheers mate! 👍😂
good to explore old subways of 1970 very interesting to see it. is old railway tunnel just coming of Liverpool lime st ther used to use it for docks back in day great to explore it great video
I remember going there in the 90s to a car meeting about 2am, it was great, all the cosworths and fast vauxhalls of the day.. the police even turned up and done a doughnut in the police car lol.. happy times.. 😂😂
@@h.bsfaithfulservant4136 id rather wreck clothes than an expensive mic lol Yeh he even said when he turned up he thought i was an urban explorer it was at that poiny i realised he was sound and stopped filming him
Brilliant again George, fascinates me around there especially where the old USAF airbase was until about the 1990’s I wonder if there are any remains to be uncovered that hasn’t been built on? 👏👏👏
@@kennybrew7850 thanks ken and thanks for the coffees The officer did mention a few places to explore around the old base so i may check them out soon Thanks for watching matey
They built the motorway right on top of the main runway, I remember 2000 ish you could still see the taxi ways leading up to the motorway, shame it’s all lost.
All these old disused and abandoned places are fascinating, and it's good that people are documenting them and sharing their history. I will say that, in my experience, the more you try to hide, the more suspicious you look and the more likely someone is to ring the police. Plus, wearing dark, tatty track suit bottoms and a dark coat does tend to make you look like someone looking to relieve people of their possessions. 😉
@@another3997 honestly i dont care what i look like but thanks for the advice next time i go out ill remember to put on my best armani suit with a pink cravat 😄
In Ipswich a lot of the underground toilets and subways had doors and hatches leading to bunkers, some of which are still in use, spiral car park in Ipswich is part of a huge network, imagine finding a hatch in that tunnel and getting into a bunker
2:35 You’re walking up the old exit slip, which was modified when the second bridge was built to form J8. After J8 opened, and before the services closed, exit traffic had to go up to the roundabout and rejoin the motorway westbound from there. Likewise eastbound services entry slip is now off the motorway entry slip from the roundabout.
@@LiverpoolTours2023 cheers mate mad how its all still there and how easy it was to just walk around the back of kfc unchallenged lol Some history around those parts aswell Thanks for watching mate
Walked in the subway tunnel with my Grandad years ago before the westbound services were demolished you can see where it was extended when the motorway was widened as tiling is different, ive seen the whole area be redeveloped over the 12 years or so with all the new industrial budlings on the omega site at the other side of junction 8.
Alright George, I've got an absolute belter for you to check out and explore, so much history, the cameras are gone, it's quite sketchy now I've actually not been in but want to before it either falls down or it's eventually refurbished. If you manage to sneak in you'll get some golden content! Huge huge Victorian building with 3 floors plus a loft . Don't want to post it on here though as it's been wrecked enough it's a gem ha ha
Indian George and the temple of the subway. Great video, "George. Just how you find these places amazes me. Brilliant peace of detective work, How much more can you find ? Just off the subject but ? How are the old toilets in Liverpool City centre blocked off ? The underground ones by Dale street i think ? Any great video more please 🙏 😊
Ha ha i like that title Originally i wasnt going to do this once i seen the bushes and how overgrown it was but sod it push on ha ha I have loads of places like this jotted down for future vids im always scanning places as im passing always looking for things that stand out and it was the lamp posts that won it in this video...i knew there was somethhing down there i just had to go take a look ha ha Those toilets im told were filled in if the same ones you mean in the middle of the road on victoria st? Shame really
Me and a few mates on our motorbikes use to use those services mid 70''s and go through that passageway from one side, to the Winwick direction side (I think that the east direction side?) just for a ride out.
Hey George i wonder if the medieval gates and gateway are still standing at old bold hall next to the m62 take the path up to old bold hall farm from warrington rd oppsite the griffin pub in bold heath and they might still be there ❤
George you find some hidden off grid / out of use ... subterranean Cool places . Mine was old "Rella "(knotty ash ) ..in 80s ....... as a kid we thought purple ake was prowling lol 🤣..had to be on our Guard 😮 lol
My dad worked for bt back in the 90s and would go work on Saturday with him every single week the phone boxes would need repairs uses to walk through that tunnel to the other side to do repairs
hey george have you had a look at the church yard in st michaels church in garston ? Theres a local folk law that a pirate is buried there. His grave stone has a skull and cross bones on it ive seen it my self it might be of interest
The slip road on Burtonwood West, where you started, was originally a police access road to and from the carpark, hence the 'authorised vehicles only sign. The barrier was removed sometime around the mid to late 80's I think, even though the signage stayed, people would cheekily use it as an exit/entrance to the West bound services. The petrol station was/is on the East bound side but as far as I can remember, the WigWam (the buildings looked like two WigWams either side of the M62, as you said) on that side was never open. You had to park your car then walk under the M62 to the West bound side if you wanted a cuppa or to use the loo!
Make a good place to shelter if you were homeless surprised its not being used for that purpose, I was briefly homeless back in the 80's as a 17 year old lad this would have been 5 star lodgings for me at that time, I remember living inside an illuminated plastic motorway hoarding at ground level that was hollow it was around 10ft x3ft and lit from within, cars were speeding passed on the motorway and I was inside cosy and warm heated by the bulbs inside it was a great find, managed to stay there for 2 weeks until a service crew came to do an inspection the bstards dragged all my gear out and burned it as I watched on hiding in the shrubs. Being a homeless lad at 17 was no fun lots of pervs who would try to rape you if you were not on guard. Dark days in the 80s. Great video though.
At 17:10 you are at the junction of two roads leading to the M62 out of the services. One was for the services and the other was from the petrol station
I love your exploring videos. While filming, you worry about being seen - do you never worry about someone reporting you after the fact? Your videos are publicly accessible on TH-cam after all. I love how that officer was cool with you, it's easy to imagine that some would be dead officious though
@@emmawaldron6454 i dont worry afterwards its just ive had a few incidents now where someone has seen me near on on something i shouldnt be like a bridge in liverpool once and someone rang the police saying i was about to jump off...they closed the road and that gave me a right lecture So near a busy motorway yards from the hard shoukder it only takes that one person to ring and the motorway could potentially get closed at that section while the police investigate what i was doing That officer was quite cool ive dealt with loads of cheshire police in the past who have been not very nice should we say lol Thanks for watching btw
Yes we would come out of legends and head over to burtonwood services and wait for the convoy to come from Liverpool. It would come in all car horns blasting then follow to illegal rave lol great days
Another great video George! You just don’t know what you’re driving over these days. You should go to the abandoned Mossley Manor Care Home on North Mossley Hill Road by me. 👌
Thanks glad you enjoyed the video mad isnt it whats below us That mossley manor i have been in many years ago its now sadly falling apart I did do a video on it a while back with eric via video call ha ha
I’m curious, did the policeman turn up because of you exploring or was it just coincidental? Either way good video but I am now itching to explore inside the police station
He didnt say i assume he came down the sliproad as there was a patrol car also in the carpark I think he was observing me fromthw carpark though amd when i went round the back thats when he came over i think as he did ask was i an urban explorer which then i knew he was going to be cool
@@lukeconnell3208 skem is on the list as i used to go all the time when arriva had a garage up there and since they pulled out of skem i aint been back
I thought I recognize where you are. did the Travel lodge 2014. (at 3.40). For the big science site a drive away. Open Saturday. Daresbury. Got a photo of that old sign I think out the window or similar on the closed road. Now see what it was. Old services. Just at 4 minutes. Writing this a bit early. annoying, Was there 2014 but a bit early for sniffing out exploring, Just did one thing by then. So near, yet so far 10 years ago. The STFC Daresbury Laboratory is a national scientific research laboratory located in Daresbury, England. It is operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and is part of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) network.
Try not to gain access to the fully operational underground hospital at burtonwood or the military vehiclea , next time take a Geiger counter , the dials in planes during ww2 were slightly radioactive and glowed in the dark, Google tobacco houses burtonwood too, what's the torch your using in this video btw ? The "police station" was where traffic officers took their break times dtinks coffee etc , i worked in burtonwood air base in the 80s , it was the largest single span roof in Europe at the time, very secure with armed military guards opposite , a few high value sites were based there , comet for eg the electrical store mainky white goods washing machines tumble dryers ftidges freezers z absolutely huge site so big it had a hangar full of cycles because the air base staff got sore feet walking around the base, there's a museum on the south side near Taylor industrial estate
Geiger counter because the dials from the clock in the planes were buried there underground , they are slightly radioactive, glow in the dark, you see Scania trucks and Travis Perkins just next door ? They're built where a huge hangar once stood, car storage and great bear distribution were on the same site
@@g2emedia1977 RAF Burtonwood, a former military airbase near Warrington, UK, had four 200-bed mobile hospitals that were used to store medical supplies during the Cold Wa
Could build flats there for the homeless, or even the elderly,,the government just Don't give a SHITE, anyway, THANKYOU staysafe, ❤👍 brilliant video, ❤to you and your family, staysafe
Worked on the air base in the 70s and coming off the M62 at the services avoided driving through North Warrington streets. The road you were on was supposed to be for the police and services workers, not the general public. There was no Junction 8 then. Occasionally I would be stopped by police, but just flashed my Ministry pass.
This subway featured in the book ‘Cocky, the Rise and Fall of Curtis Warren’. Curtis Warren aka Cocky reportedly managed to evade undercover Police who were surveilling him, via the subway. The book, from memory, had photos of Warren et al at the services. Nice video George.
Really wow i never knew that brill info cheers
Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed it
@g2emedia1977 whilst watching his concrete/matal coming in the lorry's.. full of cocaine..they did eventually link him by being present every time the lorries were. The police when drilling in couldnt reach the coke which is why he got away with it so long. They had to be lifted up and drilled from underneath.
He would follow the lorries because he was very paranoid and wanted to make sure none were unloaded on route , robbing him.
Really good book..he eventually ended up in a house all on its own so he could see 360 from the windows. Very paranoid by that time.
@@Sol-Cuttabakkara I think it was called, in sassenheim
Great Video George ... As a 9 year old kid in 1974 my dad and me went for a drive along the new M62 motorway (we lived on the Childwall Valley Estate, opposite the Coronation pup now a Lidl) we stopped at that place and walked through the subway and back again. So you brought back good memories! again a Great Video!
I love your enthusiasm for local history even the humble subway!
I love anything like this from the humble subway to ww2 relics lol
Thanks for watching
I'd forgotten how ubiquitous those small mosiac tiles were in the seventies, not just in subways, but, places like St John's market, and butchers and fishmongers. Your delight in stumbling on examples like this is infectious!
I think they’re applied in Mat form. Nice period touch.
I live anyrjing like this and yes the st johns one was pretty much the same i think they were yellow if i remember
This was a true blast from the past. Me and my best mates - one a car owner, would go to Butonwood after the Liverpool clubs closed at 2am to get coffee and cake!. I also used it as my "Hi Mum! Home in about an hour " calling point when on leave from the army in mid 70's to mid 80's well before mobile phones. Love all urban explorer stuff and now subscribed :)
Same here. When the pubs shut in Warrington, we used to drive up there for a late night hot drink.
Back in the 70s, me and my mates, would often drive in convoy from Liverpool to Burtonwood services at night, hang about there, then go back home. Good times. Interesting video 👍🚙👍
@@tartanspear really wow thats boss
I spent so much time here for all those month driving the 700 bus up to manchester i was gutted when the route finished
Thanls for watching glad you enjoyed the video
Thanks
Thank you so much landieman
Great video George I remember when it was open on both sides. I still get on and off there every day back and to to Liverpool. Keep up with your interesting stuff. Great work 😊
Thanks alan glad you enjoyed the video i cannot remember the subway but then again when i used to park up in the bus i had no reason to go over to the services
Thanks for watching matey
Another interesting mooch around George, love looking at these old abandoned places.
Thanks brian glad you enjoyed it anything like this i really like
Nice one. Thanks for the memories. I used to go past the westbound side in 1982 on the way to Liverpool on Tattooed Ted's milk round.
Absolutley amazing mate gripped from start to finish well done never seen this before
Glad you enjoyed it
Enjoyed that. Also live in the area and remember both sides of the services being open. And sneakily using the services to exit the motorway, before junc 8 was fully built.
Great video. Love Subways. When I grew up in East London a subway near me was actually in the Movie Harry Brown with Michael Caine and Plan B 😂🤣 Nice one 👍🌞🇬🇧☮️🙏
I'm new to your channel, this came up as a suggestion and I watched it from start to finish, brilliant content mate, I've subscribed and look forward to watching your future and past vids, great work.
Thank you very much for watching and subbing lots more videos like this on the way
Brilliant mate I live in callands and pass it every day
Thanks johnny glad you enjoyed the video mate thanks for watching
Another great video! Thank you George
Glad you enjoyed it
You need to go and find the old RAF bunkers under the old airbase it will blow your mind
If knew where to look id go
Enjoyed this one George. Great find that mate 👏
Thank you mate glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching
GREAT vidio George , remember both sides well , still use the coach bays in my current job.. the old police station was the old motorway police station , most service stations in the uk had their own police station , now known as motorway policing officers , but based at local stations now.. very interesting m8 , well done 👍
Thanks for watching bill the copper said it was a shame it was left as they npw have no base would have loved to see inside it as its proper 1970s style
I quite like my services my other fave one is charnock richards
Really enjoyed this so far, funny to see my local B&M car park be featured at the beginning. I know what my plan for the day is now though, Starbucks and a explore 👊
Ha ha thanks for watching glad you enjoyed the video
Its a good little mooch this well worth ploughing through the bushes for lol
Great video George.
What a fascinating , unmolested time capsule.
The Policeman topped it off,arriving with the period 70s Tache. Brilliant!,
Ha ha yeh that tash he was a good sport though
Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed the video i do plan on going back here at night for some arty light painting
Epic find 👌🏼
Thanks its a little gem this one isnt it
Carry a clipboard and wear a maintenance badge. You can go almost anywhere
Far to much stuff to carry lol
Superb find another hidden gem .I went to visit little bongs cottages after watching you vlog . Thanks mate keep those vlogs comming .
@@tompybis4521 im so glad i pushed on and found the entrance that was open originally i was just going to go the east side but wow what a place
Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed it
Great video. I remember using these services a number of times before they closed. I'm fairly sure for a period the closed down side was still open from the M62 and you'd have to park and then walk under the tunnel to get to the still open building, think this was not long before they demolished the building and removed (nearly) all traces - so this bought back some great memories.
Incidentally, was the bus you used to drive the 700?
We started many a Liverpool away game in the 1970s from Burtonwood. We would catch the last H1 crosville bus from speke to penketh on a Friday night' And start to thumb a lift To our away game. We would of used this tunnel many times..great day's 😊😊
Interesting mooch. I'll often equip myself with a pair of secetuers whilst doing this sort of urbex, they really come of good use hiking through bramble, however clearing a way through can be time consuming.
Lol i just like to plough through
I work just around the corner from there lol. Frequent Tim Horton for my breakfast. I remember the westbound services actually being open. I've known about the tunnel for a while but never knew it still existed. The problem with getting through places like that is that security might think you are casing the perimeter of their premises for a hit lol.
You got a like from me for the brambles :) Interesting video - cheers for the effort.
Ha ha thank you very much glad you enjoyed the video
Great vid. It's amazing how mother nature slowly reclaims the land.
Cheers glad you enjoyed it mad isnt it doesnt take long for things to get consumed by nature
Thanks for watching much appreciated
Great video George,, that was like a bush tucker challenge lol 😆. Fair play for this one though lad . When in use I'd have been through it loads of times. Thanks for sharing 👍 😊
Thanks for watching chris glad you enjoyed this ha ha yeh deffo a bush tucker trial
The last time I visited the westbound services, there was an 18-30 holiday reunion meet up. On their way to pontins I guess. What a racket. All beeping the horns and shouting at each other. It looked like fun to be honest.
That would have been a sight to see lol
Thanks for watching btw
Great stuff. I remember in the early / mid eighties going to car races on the old airfield runway loops at Burtonwood. Good Times.
Brilliant good times indeed
Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed it
Yet another great video 👍🏻
Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed it
Very interesting video - enjoyed 🙂
@@donfranktv thanks very much glad you enjoyed it
Nice video. George enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing. Take care
Glad you enjoyed it thanks for watching
Love them old tunnels and walkways there a lot of them in skem used to play in them m when I would visit nans, reminds ne of clockwork orange
I do plan on a visit to skem soon havent been there for years
If the clockwork orange subway wasnt so far away id deffo be visiting that
Thanks for watching
@@g2emedia1977Set your clock back to 1973 when going into Skem lol.
And here's me, out of the way, stuck in the past - still aiming/hoping to get to visit Burtonwood WW2 airbase....
Im hoping to explore some of the abandoned stuff in the next few weeks
@@g2emedia1977I learned from mates mums in the 70s who said the Yanks used to lay on a bus in Liverpool for girls to go to party at Burtonwood camp during the War.
Awesome thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed the video
Drove through that in an escort in 76.
How the hell did you get that in there
@@g2emedia1977 very easily, back in the day it had wide, easily accessible paths and no bollards and deffo no big fence like you see now.😁
The first road you entered on the west side was an old service road next to the petrol station on the west side services that police and employees could use to get access to the services without using the motorway and had barriers to stop just anyone using but the barriers would be open sometimes and you could that road to exit if you were sneaky 😂, I walked through that subway back I the 90s, can't believe how well preserved it looks with no maintenance for decades.
Many a Saturday night after Legends in Burtonwood services. Too many cars, once you were in you were stuck for a few hours. most weekends we would be there when 'normal people' would start to go out for the day.
Great times
Great video good job…I have stopped here in my truck for 35 years and pulled on there for my break only last Friday, always wondered why it was such a faffing about ge on and off these services especially westbound.
Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed it
What a bloody faff this is to get to the services up a slip road and the down and in lol
Use to go to there with my mates from earlestown on our mopeds up the side road off the small roundabout circa 1978, if I remember correctly there has only ever been 1 service area on Eastbound, the other side may have been or was going to be just a car park to walk under from 🤔.
That explains that then. I've noticed the concrete of the bridge before and had a look on google maps, but assumed it was a culvert. Another query ticked off the list, cheers mate! 👍😂
I was the same scanning google earth thinkkng it was a culvert to
Thanks for watching matt
good to explore old subways of 1970 very interesting to see it. is old railway tunnel just coming of Liverpool lime st ther used to use it for docks back in day great to explore it great video
I do love a good subway older the better lol
Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed it
I remember going there in the 90s to a car meeting about 2am, it was great, all the cosworths and fast vauxhalls of the day.. the police even turned up and done a doughnut in the police car lol.. happy times.. 😂😂
Good times it seems a lot has happened here over the years
@g2emedia1977 yes.. I'd love to be able to go back in time 😁
Great work George... another pair of tracky bottoms bite the dust 😉
Glad the officer was 😎, and suggested a few new spots 👌
@@h.bsfaithfulservant4136 id rather wreck clothes than an expensive mic lol
Yeh he even said when he turned up he thought i was an urban explorer it was at that poiny i realised he was sound and stopped filming him
@g2emedia1977 👍
Thanks for watching btw
Brilliant again George, fascinates me around there especially where the old USAF airbase was until about the 1990’s I wonder if there are any remains to be uncovered that hasn’t been built on? 👏👏👏
@@kennybrew7850 thanks ken and thanks for the coffees
The officer did mention a few places to explore around the old base so i may check them out soon
Thanks for watching matey
@ no worries mate keep up the great work 👏
They built the motorway right on top of the main runway, I remember 2000 ish you could still see the taxi ways leading up to the motorway, shame it’s all lost.
All these old disused and abandoned places are fascinating, and it's good that people are documenting them and sharing their history. I will say that, in my experience, the more you try to hide, the more suspicious you look and the more likely someone is to ring the police. Plus, wearing dark, tatty track suit bottoms and a dark coat does tend to make you look like someone looking to relieve people of their possessions. 😉
@@another3997 honestly i dont care what i look like but thanks for the advice next time i go out ill remember to put on my best armani suit with a pink cravat 😄
In Ipswich a lot of the underground toilets and subways had doors and hatches leading to bunkers, some of which are still in use, spiral car park in Ipswich is part of a huge network, imagine finding a hatch in that tunnel and getting into a bunker
drove over that way many times. nice vid
Thanks glad you enjoyed the video
That was interesting
2:35 You’re walking up the old exit slip, which was modified when the second bridge was built to form J8. After J8 opened, and before the services closed, exit traffic had to go up to the roundabout and rejoin the motorway westbound from there. Likewise eastbound services entry slip is now off the motorway entry slip from the roundabout.
Thanks for the info inwasnt sure what was what here as its been a while since i was up here
A cracking mooch mate! Remember the 'witches hat' very well but never managed to do the subway.
@@LiverpoolTours2023 cheers mate mad how its all still there and how easy it was to just walk around the back of kfc unchallenged lol
Some history around those parts aswell
Thanks for watching mate
Walked in the subway tunnel with my Grandad years ago before the westbound services were demolished you can see where it was extended when the motorway was widened as tiling is different, ive seen the whole area be redeveloped over the 12 years or so with all the new industrial budlings on the omega site at the other side of junction 8.
Yeh i noticed that the tiles just stopped lol
Thanks for the info and for watching
Brilliant ❤❤❤
Thank glad you enjoyed it
Love those mosaic tiles
Brilliant arent they
Alright George, I've got an absolute belter for you to check out and explore, so much history, the cameras are gone, it's quite sketchy now I've actually not been in but want to before it either falls down or it's eventually refurbished. If you manage to sneak in you'll get some golden content! Huge huge Victorian building with 3 floors plus a loft . Don't want to post it on here though as it's been wrecked enough it's a gem ha ha
@@HuytonLiverpool92 cool drop us an email
@@g2emedia1977 what's your email? Would love to see you do a video on there
Indian George and the temple of the subway. Great video, "George. Just how you find these places amazes me. Brilliant peace of detective work, How much more can you find ? Just off the subject but ? How are the old toilets in Liverpool City centre blocked off ? The underground ones by Dale street i think ? Any great video more please 🙏 😊
Ha ha i like that title
Originally i wasnt going to do this once i seen the bushes and how overgrown it was but sod it push on ha ha
I have loads of places like this jotted down for future vids im always scanning places as im passing always looking for things that stand out and it was the lamp posts that won it in this video...i knew there was somethhing down there i just had to go take a look ha ha
Those toilets im told were filled in if the same ones you mean in the middle of the road on victoria st? Shame really
Great explore and cool cop, we have roads to nowhere in Bristol, x
@@barbhenderson4867 thanks barb yeh he was ok as cheshire police go ha ha
He did say he was watching to see if i broke in lol
Thanks for watching barb
Just had a crackin few hours catching up on your vids!!! Better get the gym now hahaha cheers George….
@@christophercode3316 ha ha cheers mate much appreciated
Very interesting...why i dont know as i dont normally watch these kinds of video. Very good tho, drew me in...
Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed it
@@g2emedia1977 yes uber interesting and compelling..good job. 🙏
Me and a few mates on our motorbikes use to use those services mid 70''s and go through that passageway from one side, to the Winwick direction side (I think that the east direction side?) just for a ride out.
Brilliant mate
Thanks neil glad you enjoyed the video
Hey George i wonder if the medieval gates and gateway are still standing at old bold hall next to the m62 take the path up to old bold hall farm from warrington rd oppsite the griffin pub in bold heath and they
might still be there ❤
Thats a good shout ill try check it out in the week
Amazing
Glad you enjoyed it cheers
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George you find some hidden off grid / out of use ... subterranean Cool places .
Mine was old "Rella "(knotty ash ) ..in 80s .......
as a kid we thought purple ake was prowling lol 🤣..had to be on our Guard 😮 lol
I love finding places like this it was well worth pushing on getting to the subway
Purple aki i used to live in the next street from him lol
My dad worked for bt back in the 90s and would go work on Saturday with him every single week the phone boxes would need repairs uses to walk through that tunnel to the other side to do repairs
Excellent george .i thought you where going to get the third degree there .collar felt lol lol
Thanks tracey the copper was sound he got what i was doing just had a chat with him and away he went
hey george have you had a look at the church yard in st michaels church in garston ? Theres a local folk law that a pirate is buried there. His grave stone has a skull and cross bones on it ive seen it my self it might be of interest
The slip road on Burtonwood West, where you started, was originally a police access road to and from the carpark, hence the 'authorised vehicles only sign. The barrier was removed sometime around the mid to late 80's I think, even though the signage stayed, people would cheekily use it as an exit/entrance to the West bound services. The petrol station was/is on the East bound side but as far as I can remember, the WigWam (the buildings looked like two WigWams either side of the M62, as you said) on that side was never open. You had to park your car then walk under the M62 to the West bound side if you wanted a cuppa or to use the loo!
I remember Burtonwood services was on two sides. I only remember the footbridge over the motorway. Didn't know there was an underpass.
I can never remember a footbridge going over the motorway when was that?
@g2emedia1977 don't know, I think 25 years ago. I'm going to look on "national library of scotland maps" now, because I might have gone senile!.
Small world I caught that bus from widnes to Burtonwood and it was costly.
I actually thought the subway was bricked up
@@madleoo i think it was a flat fare of £7 lol
Good times i probably picked you up at some point
Thanks for watching much appreciated
Great video George how you find these places? l don't know 👍
Hi martin im alwasy scanning places and researching lol
Thanks for watching mate
Make a good place to shelter if you were homeless surprised its not being used for that purpose, I was briefly homeless back in the 80's as a 17 year old lad this would have been 5 star lodgings for me at that time, I remember living inside an illuminated plastic motorway hoarding at ground level that was hollow it was around 10ft x3ft and lit from within, cars were speeding passed on the motorway and I was inside cosy and warm heated by the bulbs inside it was a great find, managed to stay there for 2 weeks until a service crew came to do an inspection the bstards dragged all my gear out and burned it as I watched on hiding in the shrubs. Being a homeless lad at 17 was no fun lots of pervs who would try to rape you if you were not on guard. Dark days in the 80s. Great video though.
At 17:10 you are at the junction of two roads leading to the M62 out of the services. One was for the services and the other was from the petrol station
Ahh yeh i thought that lol cheers its been a long time since i was there
Is there anything in the area you could explore that goes back to the RAF Burtonwood days? Cheers
Apparently underground bunkers but i dont know where they are
It Amazing what hidden Under the ground
Isnt it mad what left behind lol
Thanks for watching much appreciated
@ thank for the video keep them coming
Cheers lots more like this coming
I love your exploring videos. While filming, you worry about being seen - do you never worry about someone reporting you after the fact? Your videos are publicly accessible on TH-cam after all. I love how that officer was cool with you, it's easy to imagine that some would be dead officious though
@@emmawaldron6454 i dont worry afterwards its just ive had a few incidents now where someone has seen me near on on something i shouldnt be like a bridge in liverpool once and someone rang the police saying i was about to jump off...they closed the road and that gave me a right lecture
So near a busy motorway yards from the hard shoukder it only takes that one person to ring and the motorway could potentially get closed at that section while the police investigate what i was doing
That officer was quite cool ive dealt with loads of cheshire police in the past who have been not very nice should we say lol
Thanks for watching btw
That was our meeting point for the illegal raves in the 80s and early 90s 🤫🤫🤫🤫😐
Really wow thats brilliant
Yes we would come out of legends and head over to burtonwood services and wait for the convoy to come from Liverpool. It would come in all car horns blasting then follow to illegal rave lol great days
Must be loads of things like this around Liverpool
Theres loads probably thats hidden away its just finding it all lol
Thanks for watching gary
Strangely interesting 🧐
Glad you found it interesting
Another great video George! You just don’t know what you’re driving over these days. You should go to the abandoned Mossley Manor Care Home on North Mossley Hill Road by me. 👌
Thanks glad you enjoyed the video mad isnt it whats below us
That mossley manor i have been in many years ago its now sadly falling apart
I did do a video on it a while back with eric via video call ha ha
I’m curious, did the policeman turn up because of you exploring or was it just coincidental? Either way good video but I am now itching to explore inside the police station
He didnt say i assume he came down the sliproad as there was a patrol car also in the carpark
I think he was observing me fromthw carpark though amd when i went round the back thats when he came over i think as he did ask was i an urban explorer which then i knew he was going to be cool
Coppers always like a quiet place to skive, iv'e noticed.
You need to go to skem you would be in subway heaven
@@lukeconnell3208 skem is on the list as i used to go all the time when arriva had a garage up there and since they pulled out of skem i aint been back
Great find georgie peorgie
@@tompybis4521 thank you tom
I thought I recognize where you are. did the Travel lodge 2014. (at 3.40). For the big science site a drive away. Open Saturday. Daresbury. Got a photo of that old sign I think out the window or similar on the closed road. Now see what it was. Old services. Just at 4 minutes. Writing this a bit early. annoying, Was there 2014 but a bit early for sniffing out exploring, Just did one thing by then. So near, yet so far 10 years ago.
The STFC Daresbury Laboratory is a national scientific research laboratory located in Daresbury, England. It is operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and is part of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) network.
Hope it doesn't get wrecked now.
Its already wrecked
That travelodge there's a great curry house underneath, bombay 8
I seen that on a sign as i was leaving may try it one day
@@g2emedia1977 well worth it pal
Try not to gain access to the fully operational underground hospital at burtonwood or the military vehiclea , next time take a Geiger counter , the dials in planes during ww2 were slightly radioactive and glowed in the dark, Google tobacco houses burtonwood too, what's the torch your using in this video btw ? The "police station" was where traffic officers took their break times dtinks coffee etc , i worked in burtonwood air base in the 80s , it was the largest single span roof in Europe at the time, very secure with armed military guards opposite , a few high value sites were based there , comet for eg the electrical store mainky white goods washing machines tumble dryers ftidges freezers z absolutely huge site so big it had a hangar full of cycles because the air base staff got sore feet walking around the base, there's a museum on the south side near Taylor industrial estate
@@johnthomas-vy3th a geiger counter needed for a subway?
Geiger counter because the dials from the clock in the planes were buried there underground , they are slightly radioactive, glow in the dark, you see Scania trucks and Travis Perkins just next door ? They're built where a huge hangar once stood, car storage and great bear distribution were on the same site
@johnthomas-vy3th i havent a clue where any of this is?
@@g2emedia1977 RAF Burtonwood, a former military airbase near Warrington, UK, had four 200-bed mobile hospitals that were used to store medical supplies during the Cold Wa
@@g2emedia1977 Google it George
I drive past this every day and wondered what that was for
Now you know lol
Thanks for watching
Amazing I live there and I never knew that was there I’ve seen those stones and just assumed they were anti travellers
Cheers yeh same here i thought it was to stop travellers
Thanks for watching
@@g2emedia1977 plus I have seen horses in there ?
must be the longest,.subway in the Northwest?
I never measured it lol
Me and Dad used stop there when we would go to see my nan.
thought you might have a subway to eat.lol
Lol i nearly did
We still need to do a collab on that abandoned house dude 👍
We do matey ill sort it when im back in work i took some time off but back next weds
@g2emedia1977 ok man will check me rota 👍
You will be on part of the old runway
Could build flats there for the homeless, or even the elderly,,the government just Don't give a SHITE, anyway, THANKYOU staysafe, ❤👍 brilliant video, ❤to you and your family, staysafe
Zombie proof. Always good to know!
Always good to know that
Surprisingly little tagging, but now that you’ve advertised the availability of so much blank canvas…
@@bettyswallocks6411 and i never even charged for the advertising boss or what
Worked on the air base in the 70s and coming off the M62 at the services avoided driving through North Warrington streets. The road you were on was supposed to be for the police and services workers, not the general public. There was no Junction 8 then. Occasionally I would be stopped by police, but just flashed my Ministry pass.
Put a yellow high viz on in areas like that no one look twice at you 😜😜
That is a possibility