Tales of the Urban Explorer: The Griffin Hotel

I stared up at ‘The Griffin Hotel’, wondering if that very top window could ever be viewed from again. One section was gone, the other intact and the rightmost swinging around in the wind.

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Was there any stable flooring that high up, and what was in that extra small room that looked like it consisted of a window and little else?

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'The Griffin Hotel', likewise glared down at me with a condescending visage of disgust. I could hear the words…, '...look…, new boards on my door and windows, so you are not getting inside arsehole...'

An article from 2020 tells of drugs, crime, and many break-ins. I noticed the image in this link shows the back of the pub also with new boards installed. Whoever is adding these needs to think, 'tin' and not 'wood' as the latter is especially easy to compromise.

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From what I can see, the pub was built in 1905 and was famously owned by a Rugby League star. I can see images from 2018 of an open waterhole, so can only assume between that year and 2020, it was closed and boarded up.

We skittled around the back and was amazed to find someone had smashed down the wooden boards creating a semi-easy access point. Well... how unusual!

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Some winding around various piles of shit hindered a little and at one point we had to climb over some pallets designed to deter, but nothing especially hampering.


…’I did check the underside of my shoes once inside. Muddy, gungy, crusty substances are quite normal, whereas layered dogshit is not, and mass bags of this particularly gross substance have been known to take residence alongside salubrious residences such as this'…

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Inside was not a complete disaster, but the usual mess I have encountered at many disused public houses with items flung around everywhere with a scattering of broken glass made up from various objects.

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True to the above article, it wasn’t hard to spot needles of the used variety on the bar, though they were missing the needle component.

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This section of the floor had been pulled up. Now what were they looking for under there, a cache of used white sports shoes complete with holes and tears?

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I could go for that ‘Sunday Lunch’ at £5.99 per head. In 2018 that still would have been quite the deal. Could it be the chef’s experience was limited to burger flipping at McDonalds?

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Deferring the stairs for now, we continued searching the lower areas of ‘The Griffin Hotel’, finding many overturned pieces of furniture scattered around.

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The long dark red leather furniture hugging the edges of the room is quite typical of pubs built around the time; the tears, bits of masonry, glass shards, and fallen wallpaper due to the extreme dampness is not.

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The beer pulling and pump equipment had all but been removed from ‘The Griffin Hotel’.

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A tax demand from 2020 gives me a little more idea of when the landlord vacated. HMRC must be getting a little pissed off with the number of self-assessments that are ignored. If they think the £100 fine for late delivery will work, they can only hope the resident spiders may pay up and settle the debt.

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That’s really girly writing and someone can’t spell ‘coffee’.

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Look closely and you can see those old-fashioned tiles from a different age. They look like ugly flowers and do little to enhance the surroundings. Would you like to wake up to disturbing images like that while sleepily coming around from your close-call wet dream and stiffly pointing 'morning wood?'

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If she was on that decaying read leather sofa lying naked, I would be pulling that rubber machine off the wall in search of a stray, ‘tickler fundom’.

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Lopermide’ to put it bluntly is an anti-shit tablet, made to constipate you, and sadly it looks like someone beat me to that nice blond plastered on the rubber machine.

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After all that excitement, we climbed the stairs noting once again, the lack of a bannister.

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Those torn curtains would not hide your hairy balls, and the draft would likely shrink them to the size of a pair of small walnuts.

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It’s too late for that, we already did.

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How cosy, side-by-side beds, intact windows to stop you from freezing your arse off and someone even pulled the radiator down so it’s nice and close.

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Very comfortable I would bet, however, there's little glass in the windows, and it could get a little chilly in there.

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Another nice cosy room with glass in the windows, a double mattress, and even a DVD player.

If the residents would cease throwing all the furniture about, a desk could probably be recovered to go with the wonky-looking chair.

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Beer, pizza, cheap knockoff cola, McDonald's remains, and Bran Flakes. A nice balanced diet.

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Someone has a tobacco problem.

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Having exhausted the first-floor sights, we ascended in search of that strange-looking room I mentioned earlier.

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On the turning of the stairs, I quickly figured the top floor was another burnt mess.

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Calling that number means you suck, or you can suck..., I can’t imagine what.

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We wandered in and out of the top-floor burnt rooms noting the floor was reasonably stable for a hellhole. I never did spot the three-windowed apparition.

The first of the day, and a successful infiltration. I wondered if this trend would continue.

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We left with a target of ‘The Muff House’ in our sights. The day was going to get a little more interesting.

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At least you got to the top floor!

tickler fundom

Lol 🤣🤣

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Can't say I have experimented with pussy ticklers, how about you? 😀

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I leave that shit to the amateurs! 😀😀

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Haha, someone must buy that stuff from those vending machines.

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That's why they are always in pubs, I think they rely on drunk people buying them!

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I'm still really taken by how your posts like this often remind me of the Fallout games. I just finished the main storyline in Fallout 4 and I feel like I have been in this building fighting super mutants or raiders!

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Fallout 4, I have such mixed memories of that game. It had loads of potential yet I still ditched it and so far, haven't done a reprise. It's been a long time since they released a new Fallout game, slackers..

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I think there is a new one on the way. There is also a TV show in the works.

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As DERP's go thats not bad, sod pulling the johnny machine off the wall....just go for it, then off to Macadees for a slap up meal oh Yeah baby

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johnny machine

Haha, your're cracking me up 😀🤣

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all part of the service LOL, well that's what we called them anyways

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It may just be me, but that blue tile reminds me of my grandmother's bathroom. Huh. Thanks for the jogged memories!

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People go nuts over these old tiles but they don't do a lot for me, besides drudge up old memories, most of which are bad ones!

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Yes, Grammy's lavatory definitely gave off asylum vibes.

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You got to see it all! It looks like most of the floors weren't too precarious. Sure is a shit hole inside, but I guess fire shut them down? Looks like a building doomed for demolition. Cool pictures and a great job getting in and out alive!

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Could be a demolition, nobody would try and dare resurrect it as as pub; pubs are gone now and all will die in time.

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Jesus man, how can places fall to such rack and ruin... State of the place... tickler fundom gave me a good giggle mind you 🤣🤣🤣

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Only 3 years and it's a right mess. If nobody saves it, it's doomed to have no upper floors in a few years.

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Another fascinating set of photos and some great Art Nouveau tiles there.

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My first job was filling up the tiles section in Asda long ago, maybe that's why I don't see them as nostalgic. The job was terrible.

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That's fair enough. I never knew Asda had a tiles section, so that's something new I've learnt.

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"Someone has a tobacco problem".... Haaaaaa haaaaa haaaaa!!!! :)) What a bizarre thing!!!!

Another fantastic exploration, a place like science fiction and a lot of amazing photos as always!!!...

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Yeah, someone must love inhaling the toxic fumes or something 😀

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I think there a curtain would have been needed for the windows side lest someone should have not seen hairy balls :)

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Apart from the broken windows, the outside looked old but nice. The use of colorful bricks were interesting. But the inside wasn't as great. It seemed to be in a regular street so I was surprised how much trespassing and garbage there were. The number of cigarette butts is actually alarming.

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I loved all the brilliant colors too! The ciggies though... I'm pretty sure that stainless thing next to them was a hotel-sized ashtray, and someone just dumped it out.

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Oh that makes more sense then. Thanks for that.

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Oah, that was a nice discovery! I have no clue if we have abandoned hotels in my part of the globe as they always end up being destroyed if not used anymore, but it's definitely one of those buildings with lots of different stories in a single place!

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Exterior looks great, interior not debatable as to what type of shite has gone before! Pity it had good character at a glance.

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Give it a couple more years and there won't be an interior!

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Well nothing to be proud of.., must have been a great place to relax at one point in time.

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I like the style of this shower curtain. 😁 Revolutionary, with a lot of transparency and gives an extra touch of freshness to the bathing experience.

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I hate to spoil the fun, but those syringes are oral syringes. They aren't shaped right to be the type that hold needles.

The only hard drugs in your photos were the loperamide pills (known as Immodium on this side of the Atlantic). It's actually an opioid - that's why it stops you up. So of course brilliant people buy and take entire packages of it at once to get high. 🤡

Are you sure the 34th pic from the top isn't your 3-windowed apparition? It sure looks like it could be...

Thanks as always for sharing!

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t's actually an opioid - that's why it stops you up. So of course brilliant people buy and take entire packages of it at once to get high.

I learn something everyday, take a few packs of these and your in cuckoo land but wont be shitting for sometime? I'm not sure the trade off is NOT worth it!

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Eh. Going to hospital to get impacted feces dug out probably isn't ever worth it, but I leave that for you to decide. 😂

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I did say NOT worth it.

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Ahh. What I see is where you said you were not sure it was not worth it. LOL

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Either way, just in case some silly folks think it is worth it, I'd like to dissuade them. 😉

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The building is majestic, the sad thing is that even though smoking is prohibited, someone seems to have smoked a lot of cigarettes. It seems that reuse can be useful

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You made an adventure going to see it all the room , reminds of my grandparents room, the pills are just something else, the beautiful flowers looking so bad, thanks for bringing by this memory.

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