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December 12, 2015

Urban Exploring: Godric’s Hollow

It’s 8pm and the queue here is long. It’s the mid-60’s and Godric’s Hollow has quickly become the “in” place to be. Down a flight of threaded carpet stairs it’s standing-room only: the seats all taken by an eager crowd. They’re here to see some of Adelaide’s best music performers.

Godric's Hollow — Awesome Adelaide — A popular Adelaide singer first started singing here in the 1960s. It was at this time her career blossomed.

Fast-forward fifty years and it’s now no more than a collection of empty dusty rooms. It went through a number of transformations before finally closing its doors in the 1980’s. Whats left of Godrick’s Hollow now resides hidden and undisturbed beneath the streets of Adelaide.

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October 6, 2015

Urban Exploring: Underwater World

Once one of Adelaide‘s premier nightclubs (offering alternative music and live shows), it now sits flooded and in darkness. The people that used this space have moved on. Their lives, having played out here, are now a distant memory. You can’t rewind time, but as an Urban Explorer you can breathe a kind of life back into these places,… and show there is true beauty in decay.

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July 6, 2014

Urban Exploring: Scotts Mill

Built in the mid 1800s Scotts Mill was the town’s first flour mill. The mill did a roaring trade in supplying flour in the 1850’s. The town was a busy agricultural district; in fact one of the busiest in the colony!

However by the early 1870s crop yields had fallen alarmingly. No fertilisers were in use and the land had become exhausted of nutrients. Many farmers left the district and the mill sat idle for a number of years.

When fertilisers became available in the 1890s yeilds increased dramatically and the mill was busy again. With reliable rainfall, good crop yields have been maintained ever since, and the mill never looked back.

Scotts Mill was originally steam-powered, initially fueled by wood but later from charcoal. In the mid 1900s the mill was connected to the new electricity supply from the Adelaide Electric Supply Co.

After 112 years of operation, the old mill was closed in the 1960s. It has remained vacant since, still containing much of the old milling machinery used in her glory days…