‘St Bonifaces Social Club’ had already done the rounds. The TourBus had been and left by the time I made my second visit, as well as all the fuckwits who pretend to be explorers, but prefer to smash anything they find apart.
@anidiotexplores managed it early on the initial wave, got in, and saw it relatively undamaged. My first attempt yielded a large gate that appeared impervious to climbing.
I had little idea that just a few weeks later it would be blown off its hinges leaving the woeful ex-club once again open to us terrible explorers.
Word had gotten around about its 're-open' status and this time it needed to be visited with haste.
The social club that hails from the 1980's closed to due to COVID. The linked article talks about flattening it, and building flats as a replacement. As usual, fuck all has happened.
The back door didn’t need to be open, being quite absent and so we passed the James Bondage sticker and waded into an almighty mess and painted white cocks.
Talk about being a little late. With these sights entering my eye sockets I couldn't see a way back to normality for ‘St Bonifaces Social Club’.
Still, there was plenty to dig into. It might be severely vandalised but there was lots of stuff to look at, and the vandals generally don't give a toss at what I home into.
I guess some of the ex-visitors were not royalists. The queen was alive during this period..., barely.
Someone paid £20 a head for a 60th birthday party with 100 visitors. This club did make some money for private functions once.
A message to all future explorers; well that's a first and I suppose somewhat original. I motioned @anidiotexplorers over to see this. We both thought it was ironic to choose this, one of the most vandalised properties ever as the target of those words.
What’s with all the giffgaff cards? They are a cheap mobile provider running on the O2 network. I use them myself.
More like cut by the glass if you stick your finger’s anywhere near that.
Welcome to ‘St Bonifaces Social Club’ indeed! I can’t see anyone answering that number now.
It's too fucking noisy, turn it down say the locals. It is a social club, but the DJs can't turn it up. Was it the locals are fussy twats or did the roof bounce around due to frequent 300db noise levels?
There’s no more music, but now they need to tolerate the vandals smashing up St Bonifaces. I wonder what is worse?
The office was trashed but intact. It could have been worse and burned out. St Bonifaces appears to have been a thriving business once.
Wherever I looked I saw references to cash, and indications showed a decent business. COVID saw to all that, and forced it's closure.
It was a real old-fashioned club, complete with membership. What the benefits were remain a mystery.
Even more notes about money. Did someone snag it all and run off spending it all on hard bondage? I was coming to that conclusion.
A faded old picture of the club in better times, possibly around the festive period.
Just over £1700 for one week with all expenses removed. Does that seem a lot? There's the cost of rent, gas, electricity, water, council tax, and other miscellaneous shit to pay. Maybe it wasn't enough?
Don’t you just love it when the owner leaves all the historical accounts behind? This happens quite a lot. I don’t think they expected it to be broken into and completely wrecked.
How deep did I want to look at all this? I can only take so much of expenses and miscellaneous outgoings.
All very easy listening, was St Bonifaces for the ageing population?
Entering through the windows was always a no-go, all of them are barred on the lower levels. It speaks volumes about the local crime levels.
That's as close as I dare go. Compared to everything else, it was amazing the toilet was recognisable.
Within the room we first entered some items were miraculously intact. If this Heineken dispenser still works then it needs rescuing.
Likewise, the bottles of Orange Cordial appeared sealed and possibly drinkable. I wasn't going to open one to prove a point.
We exited ‘St Bonifaces Social Club’ and walked around the exterior. This was a truly smashed-up wreck.
Nobody had bothered to try and compromise the front door. Why bother when the back is completely out of sight?
The building doesn't strike me as old and could have been built in the 1980s. It was not one of those depressing shitholes from the 60' that I truly detest.
I see demolition approaching for ‘St Bonifaces Social Club’. It's hardly a historic piece of architecture and it would not surprise me if it's already been flattened.
FOOTNOTE: I checked… It's still there, not demolished, being trashed more every day and getting worse by the second.
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