Tales of the Urban Explorer: Return to Mystique
I don’t generally go back to old explores; once they are done, then it’s over, we are finished and it's time to move on.
To term an analogy of the gigolo and their bedpost scratchings would be accurate. Once they are laid, you move on to the next crack. Crude, but it gets the point across.
The odd occasion I have returned is when I have missed something, or it was sealed the first time around.
Mystique hardly ticked any of those boxes but as @anidiotexplores had yet to visit and as he’s generally OK with me re-visiting his ‘used cracks’ I could hardly refuse.
'I can wait outside'...., or so I thought.
On viewing the original entry point, and then the new improved one it was a case of, 'I may as well see what's has changed', and to check out the attic area I missed in July 2020.
“So there was a reason to return, albeit a very small one’
At least entry was much easier now than sliding down that lethal metal sheeting hoping you were not going to break your ankles at the bottom.
How things can change in just eight months. I was not going to snap anything but when I saw the wreckage and ‘new look’ the phone came out right away.
What the fuck happened to the roof? It was sketchy in 2020; now it was caved in and the sun streamed through throwing Mystique into a completely different light.
’...bad pun, I could not resist...’
I had heard no recent reports of crushed explorers in Huddersfield, it’s just as well.
Heading for the attic and hoping it was still there I climbed the steps. There was little I had missed in 2020 besides a purple wall which @frot would adore, some graffiti signings, and remnants of the homeless.
Perhaps I should check if any homeless were crushed instead?
Fortunately for me, @anidiotexplores is one of the swiftest explorers in living history. He doesn’t fuck about and I would have just a few minutes to see the old nightclub as it has never been seen before.
Descending the stairs I looked upon the old bar, or what was left of it.
I once described it as ‘the bar from hell but missing the zombies’. All that atmosphere was now gone.
I looked around and couldn’t believe the difference. It was truly unrecognisable to me and my past memories.
Walking around I tried to get my bearings on what was once a clear picture of the doomed nightclub.
A few glasses remained on the burnt bar with the orange juice carton. Gone was the ‘cup of penicillin’ I was so tempted to drink from.
The stripper’s pole remained along with the comfortable seating in which leering blokes were trying to suppress their ‘wood’.
This one was going to be quick I could see. I had no desire to re-visit the bogs that are decorated in the colours of Cadburys chocolate.
I exited through the bashed-down doorway and spotted @anidiotexplores at the bottom of that dangerous metal slide. I guessed he had finished the Indian restaurant in the basement, ‘Chutney Mahal’ with his usual speed.
It was just a question of me scaring the shit out of him now with an extra loud ‘HOY’ in my best policeman voice. Some things just have to be done.
My original visit to 'Mystique, The Gentleman’s Club', can be found here.
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This feels so Wodehousianesque
I guess that's a compliment. We do take all this lightly, you have to have a laugh!
Every post should have a stripper pole.
The most recent abandoned strip bar (not published yet) I frequented didn't have one. I was devastated, but found some pics of the ex-girls instead. it made up for it somewhat.
I wonder if the first pole stripper was just a really eccentric fireman...
I suppressed the urge to bend my lithe body around the pole... twice.
Maybe next time.
Hell yes it should. I must now try to find a way to include a stripper pole in my next post about IT and Cyber stuff. This should be interesting.
Just convert one into a wifi extender.
I can see the headline now;
'Get Your Wi-Fi & Johnson Extended With a Stripper Pole'
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That stripper pole will probably be standing there when that building is still long gone. Hell, they may even make it a monument.
Old grey haired men, with canes, now with nothing but faded memories of tucking small bills in garter belts. Their now shrunken wood, once stood at attention around that pole and it's dancing tits in unison. Tears will be welling in their eyes at the base of the stripper pole monument.
These veterans of the Mystique and it's stripper pole, they went were many men never went before, got the clap to prove it, along with other critters to boot. They didn;t come home the same, much to their wives dismay.
We owe these men a gratitude and shot of penicilin that is coming decades too late.
The wives likely didn't know they were feeding the stripper fivers!
Lol. Quite astonishing that the orange cartoon was still there. A crack well prowled!
It's fucked in there now. Before it was quite somber with the roof threatening to collapse on us... just a bit.
Oh yeah, I remember this one. It didn't quite click with me until you mentioned the Indian place in the basement. Then I remembered. Nice job! That is too bad that it has gotten to such a disgusting point.
The Indian would have been the same, as it's in the basement area.. the upper floors go first. Give it a few years and it may look different down there.
The building is a hazard. Wow, the box of orange juice is still there.
You're telling me it's a hazard! It needs boarding up.. properly.
a revisit to any crack is accaptable, so long as its not sloppy seconds 😂
'We sneaked though the crack', it happens frequently!
ooer matron!
Never resist a pun my man!
The Mystique does not look so charming anymore… but you just know there's some weirdo out there who would think its current state would make the perfect setting for a beer and striptease!
The best condition part was that old attic. Can you believe it... the topmost floor had the least damage.
Doesn't make much sense. Maybe you should go back again next year and have another look.
Great Zombie hangout..
The best zombie place was Batley Hospital, and in particular the basement where there had been a fire. I think it's been demolished since.
Even with purple bits, that crack is skoady!
You are lowering your standards and slumming it, like an old whore who is past use by...
No more repeats.. I know. I am not a fan.
What is a club without a stripper pole? I personally love fire poles. Or abandoned firehouses (you just had one recently!)
I tried not to mention it because every hot-blooded male that walks across this post will be mentioning something about it.. :P
I remember two things about this post really well, The pole and the Indian Restaurant in the basement. You showed pictures of it! Another fun walk-through!
On to new stuff again now. I wasn't going to take any snaps of Mystique again. I don't like going back to places I have already done even if there are major changes.
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Just needs a little TLC :) Such is the state of urban decay in this country. Buildings are left to rot. Don't worry, Johnson is going to 'level up' the North.
If I was down south, there would be much less to choose from. Living here has it's advantages.
We have our share of run down businesses. Those I've seen tend to look sealed up though. They use metal panels to block the windows on some. Someone had pictures of a place near here on Facebook a while back that looked interesting, but I'm not sure exactly where it is. I've not sought out local urbexers.