The plants have finally obtained full control over this garden centre! Fully-fledged trees in the greenhouse! They were probably plotting this all along, sending chemical signals we don't currently understand...in all seriousness though, it's quite sad to see this. I wonder if classic garden centres will still exist in 50 years?
I really hope so. All being well I'll still be around then and will finally be retired, so can spend as much time in my garden as I want. I love proper garden centres.
Good on you mate!! I've been with you throughout this new venture. Hope it continues to be successful. I did mention it before but, Thornton in Bradford should be extremely interesting.@@wanderingturnip
As a gardener, there is so much usable stuff in there, the seed holders, the trolley you mentioned but most of all all that staging you just wandered past, there are allotment holders that would love that staging to start their seeds off on
Maybe a reclamation society could be financially viable. Free demolition for the freeholder , & the allotment holders could contribute to the cost of recycling the rest of the stuff. (Que the health & safety reasons why not)@@magimac9979 As a carpenter i'm always up for taking timber home & pay a lot for it otherwise.
My daughter went to Kindergarden, in a closed Gadencenter. They had fixed the house up,and the children enjoyed all thr different trees,on the Playground🎉
@@JenniferA886all deliberate too! Time for all of us to go back to nature - start growing our own fruit, veg & herbs whilst supporting our farmers 👩🌾🚜💚
There's one of these near where I grew up. It's so sad because it was one of my favourite places to visit when I was little. I wanted to go back as an adult, and it was gone. I loved all the fish, and the smell was so good. Nature has now reclaimed it around the ruins. At least they didn't turn it in to yet another housing estate though, we need more nature.
Wonderful I’ve watched so many of your videos. I don’t leave this house now so watching these is so fulfilling. Love your down to earth attitude. I bought u a coffee 👍🥰
This place has been rotting for quite a long time from the looks of it about 20 years quite an interesting time capsule there, lots of big trees and brambles grown over it
Fabulous video as always Turnip! I imagined it being like an adventure game - drone stuck in tree. What do you need? Ladders from garden centre! Drone achieved. Next level unlocked! I could just visualise some nosey parker in the house over the road, arms folded, stood at the window watching you with your stick, talking to 'yourself' - going 'what is that lad doing over there!!?'
I love watching your adventures. One of the things I admire and respect about you is you seem very happy being out and about on your own. I’m a confident person but I don’t enjoy doing stuff alone i always like having a buddy with me,I wish I was more comfortable doing stuff alone. This video reminds me of when I was younger getting into mischief with my pals,going into old derelict buildings to see what we could find. good memories As always I really love your vids,looking forward to many more
Brilliant video, that’s a first I’ve seen footage of an abandoned Garden centre, & you narrated it beautifully! ❤😂 It breaks my heart to see all that things lying about & property going to waste, hopefully someone that worked in it will have watched this video & be able to give you the history of when it opened etc, & why it’s just been left to go to ruins, very many thanks as always! From Aberdeenshire 🙏🤗xx
I think I know that place, Used to pass it on the way some times, It's been like that for years, I heard there was a covenant or something on the land preventing its use for anything BUT a garden centre which is why its been left
Pisses me off seeing abandoned buildings when you could do so much with them, especially the old building such as Victorians and Edwardian. The architecture will be lost for ever when these buildings crumbling and fall.
Aren't garden centres _brilliant!_ 😃 Kind of sad but fascinating to see an abandoned one.. would love to know what happened! So much stuff left behind.. even the toilet roll! That's a bargain tree you offered for a mere £8.. 😂 and how cute is the *owl* at 1:08 🤭🦉 I was crying laughing at the drone footage.. your meeting had to be delayed..😅 Fascinating and fun vlog! Loved it!👏
There was one down the road by me in Norway and its been turned into a new housing estate. I'd post a link to the aerial photo from the 80s, but I haven't got a clue how to do it from the site. All that stuff that's been left behind would make some community garden or allotment happy. Amazing that it hasn't been fully trashed by little twats like I was back in the 1980s.
I always wonder about the story behind a place like this. Obviously at one time it was someone's dream to have a place like that, and yet now it's old and abandoned. I wonder what happened.
The owner probably died and either had no relatives or nobody who could afford to take over the estate or had the time to. Or they went bankrupt and skipped town.
Or, just being smart and waiting for the land value to go up before selling up. Same reason foreign investors are buying up property and leaving it to rot all across the uk.
This place closed down in late 2005 or early 2006. The place struggled to thrive as a business owing to much larger garden centres nearby in Thetford & Bressingham, Diss (Norfolk).
An idea of what would happen when people are gone, nature takes it back. I do love a good mooch about these abandoned places. Sadly people will take it back off nature again sometime and build houses or something. Pity these places can't be left alone forever for nature.
Hey man, how are you? Love your work. Thank you very much for it! I would really appreciate it if you could please do Hayes and Harlington, Uxbridge, Ruislip, Hounslow, Ealing, etc!
I know Hayes from researching Fairy Aviation. Is there anything else you could recommend to look up? (I know of the Great Barn, Battle of Britain bunker)
I wanted to by metal display benches like the ones in that greenhouse, but the cost a solid fortune, so I've had to make one out of pallets suspended on concrete blocks
Knowing how expensive a small greenhouse is this makes me sad, I hope someone can restore it. A huge amount of food could be grown year round for the local community in such a place.
My guess is they used the news papers as wrapping. Surprising 20 years nature has move well and truly back. Interesting video 2x👍 Garden centres are much better at Christmas time, all the trees decorated etc.
There was an abandoned garden place a street away. That was left to rot for at least 7 years. Unfortunately it's gone now...replaced by 4 two family rental houses
@@wanderingturnip Because you are sensible... that thing wouldn't pass muster in today's Health & Safety ruled world and I bet you didn't have a High-Vis jacket either 🤣🤣🤣
How sad... can't imagine what series of unfortunate steps lead to the final closure and seemingly instant abandonment. 2 things had me worried... was that a another body in the suitcase murder and where were all the zombies!!!!! Felt your pain with the drone in the tree issue, had the same happen to me last year. Could't see mine though but the video was still live. Me and the wife took a good half an hour or more to find and recover the precious little thing but, as with yours, all was well in the end 😱 Great job mate, I loved it, keep it up. Cheers 🍺
In my local area there are many industrial sized greenhouses stood empty on several different sites. Why is this I ask myself when we import tomatoes etc from abroad!
Incredible how abandoned things can last for a long time, even centuries sometimes and become a case for archeologist. 2004 newspapers... And so well preserved, along with other paraphernalia. 2004 is Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook date of birth. How incredible wanderimg turnip can be... We really ❤ this channel. Thank you.
Unknown to most people, the bramble is actually carnivorous. If the aim of the spines was defensive, they would point outwards, instead they point inwards (towards the root), meaning that animals which become entwined, are pulled towards the centre of the plant as they struggle to break free. Eventually the trapped animal dies and, whereas something like a decomposing deer will sterilise the surrounding vegetation for months, the roots of the bramble thrive! Sheep and young deer are particularly vulnerable to brambles, with trapped animals oven being killed in under 24 hours.
@@trevorwills3356 Not "twaddle". Brambles are a massive threat to certain types of livestock, with sheep in particular falling easy prey to them. This is why farmers either cut them well back (when growing through hedges), or simply dose them with glyphosate. Having seen a group of people trying to free an escaped sheep that had become entangled in brambles, I was amazed at just how much work was involved. I was also amazed that the animal survived. Do a google search on 'sheep trapped in brambles' and then go to images.
I'm curious as to how long ago it was abandoned and whether there is a future for that area? It seems such a shame that life was teeming there at some point then, for myriad reasons, it all came crashing down. Any history info, please pass on👍🏾 If the end of the world were nigh...I can just imagine The Wandering Turnip documenting every last moment, savouring every nuance of our demise🤭
It’s a great vid but bittersweet too. so many nurseries and garden centres have shut down in the past decades. Even councils used to have their own nurseries to grow annual bedding for parks etc. Independent nurseries struggle, and most plants you buy are imported. Even more challenging they now require a plant passport since Brexit Crazy times
You thumb nail came up on a recommended video and thought I recognised it! The garden centre closed in around 2010 we live about 1 mile from it. Don't know what happened to the owners.
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The plants have finally obtained full control over this garden centre! Fully-fledged trees in the greenhouse! They were probably plotting this all along, sending chemical signals we don't currently understand...in all seriousness though, it's quite sad to see this. I wonder if classic garden centres will still exist in 50 years?
I really hope so. All being well I'll still be around then and will finally be retired, so can spend as much time in my garden as I want. I love proper garden centres.
Plastic Robbin😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉I want it 🎉🎉🎉
Urban explorers have a motto: "Take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints" Well done!!
Love that!
Honestly... Were you tempted?@@wanderingturnip
Nah the footage was enough for me 👍👍
Good on you mate!!
I've been with you throughout this new venture. Hope it continues to be successful. I did mention it before but, Thornton in Bradford should be extremely interesting.@@wanderingturnip
Ah well thanks for watching 😀😀 yes I’ll get it added to my list 👍
That owl is actually a robin
That did make me laugh... It's only one of the easiest birds to recognise. 😄
I once found one here in Whitehaven Cumbria, now my family run it as a very successful business!
Hiya David, that's nice to know, alright Marra
As a gardener, there is so much usable stuff in there, the seed holders, the trolley you mentioned but most of all all that staging you just wandered past, there are allotment holders that would love that staging to start their seeds off on
No more so than in these times! 👩🌾 🚜
Maybe a reclamation society could be financially viable. Free demolition for the freeholder , & the allotment holders could contribute to the cost of recycling the rest of the stuff.
(Que the health & safety reasons why not)@@magimac9979
As a carpenter i'm always up for taking timber home & pay a lot for it otherwise.
Cant believe a garden centre shut down, cant have had a cafe
Probably frittered the business away on the gee-gees looking at all those Racing Posts lol
Yes I fully agree with you. Used to manage a bookies and I've seen people destroy their lives there.
yeah was thinking that. gambled into debt and took the business with it. Gambling is a mugs' game, only winners are the bookies...
I love your shows. I live in Bermuda but I use to live in Huddersfield I loved it.Same thing is happening over here too.
My daughter went to Kindergarden, in a closed Gadencenter. They had fixed the house up,and the children enjoyed all thr different trees,on the Playground🎉
Broken dreams it's a disgrace for such things to fall into disrepair. Shocking the waste
More is coming… it’s a sign of the times
@@JenniferA886all deliberate too! Time for all of us to go back to nature - start growing our own fruit, veg & herbs whilst supporting our farmers 👩🌾🚜💚
There's one of these near where I grew up. It's so sad because it was one of my favourite places to visit when I was little. I wanted to go back as an adult, and it was gone. I loved all the fish, and the smell was so good. Nature has now reclaimed it around the ruins. At least they didn't turn it in to yet another housing estate though, we need more nature.
Those galvanized plant display benches are worth a good sum.I wanted some welded mesh,but was amazed how expensive it is.
That was a little adventure... Good thing you have your drone back.
Wonderful I’ve watched so many of your videos. I don’t leave this house now so watching these is so fulfilling. Love your down to earth attitude. I bought u a coffee 👍🥰
Aw thanks so much for that! I proper appreciate it 😃😃
what a shame, so much potential for this land.
Great video, and happy you got your drone back in one piece.
Thanks
I'd strongly recommend a hard hat for inside those greenhouses, old weathered glass is so fragile, great find BTW
Reflective jacket too, a must!
This place has been rotting for quite a long time from the looks of it about 20 years quite an interesting time capsule there, lots of big trees and brambles grown over it
I love how nature takes over after a short while..
THE OLD NEWSPAPERS WERE MOST PROBABLY USED FOR WRAPPING UP PLANTS AFTER THEY WERE SOLD.
And for making small plantingpots, to go directly into the soil🎉
or a paper boy has dumped them
Another great video. Take care in these abandoned buildings, though : )
Fabulous video as always Turnip! I imagined it being like an adventure game - drone stuck in tree. What do you need? Ladders from garden centre! Drone achieved. Next level unlocked! I could just visualise some nosey parker in the house over the road, arms folded, stood at the window watching you with your stick, talking to 'yourself' - going 'what is that lad doing over there!!?'
Loved the garden centre. Looks ripe for some sort of conversion. But the best bit was the hilarious drone recovery at the end. Happy trails.
I love watching your adventures.
One of the things I admire and respect about you is you seem very happy being out and about on your own.
I’m a confident person but I don’t enjoy doing stuff alone i always like having a buddy with me,I wish I was more comfortable doing stuff alone.
This video reminds me of when I was younger getting into mischief with my pals,going into old derelict buildings to see what we could find.
good memories
As always I really love your vids,looking forward to many more
I hate going solo too, but it’s my only option mainly…other than local walking groups x x x
I've driven past that ex-garden centre for years. Always wanted to get round to doing some urbex stuff, but never had time or opportunity.
"We're going to need a bigger stick." Love it!
Brilliant video, that’s a first I’ve seen footage of an abandoned Garden centre, & you narrated it beautifully! ❤😂
It breaks my heart to see all that things lying about & property going to waste, hopefully someone that worked in it will have watched this video & be able to give you the history of when it opened etc, & why it’s just been left to go to ruins, very many thanks as always! From Aberdeenshire 🙏🤗xx
I live not too far from thisplace and was always fascinated when going past it, really interesting video, now i know whats in there!
This reminds me of something you'd see in films like a quiet place, that is so cool!
Like in " Vera"( "Posterchild")😊
I love your urbex related videos man, please do more! You're such an interesting person to listen to.
I think I know that place, Used to pass it on the way some times, It's been like that for years, I heard there was a covenant or something on the land preventing its use for anything BUT a garden centre which is why its been left
I've had plenty of lurking around abandoned structures in my post-soviet childhood. Abandoned swimming pool, observation wheel, amusement park etc
"Life finds a way" - Dr. Ian Malcolm
Most definitely alive! Tressle tables, shelving, the wire trollies and the big Robin are treasures just waiting to be taken to a new home... 😁
If I didn’t have such a tiny car, that trolley would have been mine 😂😂
I'd love to go exploring abandoned places
Wow! I just realized 2004 is already 20 years ago. What was in the suitcase? It’s kind of sad, yes? I love garden 🪴 centers. 💌
It closed in 2020, old newspaers for potting trays. So calm down!!
@@TwangledUP Lol, oh wow, that stuff grew fast!
My guess it's a body??? Probably not 🤣
Go for it! I'll look forward to seeing more abandoned places on your channel.
Pisses me off seeing abandoned buildings when you could do so much with them, especially the old building such as Victorians and Edwardian. The architecture will be lost for ever when these buildings crumbling and fall.
It was a robin
My bad 👀
Ir was an owl. ..he loves to exaggerate
Made me smile this one.
Wow! That house on the other side of the road.😲
what an adventure!
Aren't garden centres _brilliant!_ 😃
Kind of sad but fascinating to see an abandoned one.. would love to know what happened! So much stuff left behind.. even the toilet roll! That's a bargain tree you offered for a mere £8.. 😂 and how cute is the *owl* at 1:08 🤭🦉
I was crying laughing at the drone footage.. your meeting had to be delayed..😅 Fascinating and fun vlog! Loved it!👏
Nice use of The Fast Show there. Respect 🤟👍
@@Bloke-in-Stoke 😆🤣👍 Yes!! Many have commented on the similarities between Turnip and the "brilliant kid" 👏
It's all the wild plants smashing their way into the greenhouse!
Crazy stuff. Love it. Thanks!
There was one down the road by me in Norway and its been turned into a new housing estate. I'd post a link to the aerial photo from the 80s, but I haven't got a clue how to do it from the site.
All that stuff that's been left behind would make some community garden or allotment happy. Amazing that it hasn't been fully trashed by little twats like I was back in the 1980s.
I think the owl is a Robin
I always wonder about the story behind a place like this. Obviously at one time it was someone's dream to have a place like that, and yet now it's old and abandoned. I wonder what happened.
The owner probably died and either had no relatives or nobody who could afford to take over the estate or had the time to. Or they went bankrupt and skipped town.
Or, just being smart and waiting for the land value to go up before selling up. Same reason foreign investors are buying up property and leaving it to rot all across the uk.
Very interesting glad you got your drone go back get your trolley and ladder just sitting rotting ❤❤❤❤
Dereliction and decay, I love it. The glass house structure is worth a lot and could well be repurposed by a small holder.
Amazing
Funny looking owl though
You crack me up! 😂😂😂 another great video!..glad you got your drone back 🎉
Fantastic find, well worth pulling over.
This is beautiful how naturally life takes back everything nice 👍🏻 keep up the good work 👍🏻
Fantastic video please do more like this. I enjoyed this one !
boss level content always. keep wandering bro.
Oooo, nice find! Me and the wife love a good garden centre!
This place closed down in late 2005 or early 2006. The place struggled to thrive as a business owing to much larger garden centres nearby in Thetford & Bressingham, Diss (Norfolk).
Great video as always. A time capsule from 2004.
Hi, you need to do the old Camelot theme park near chorley. I loved that place as a kid.
4:55 True Temper make/made some great gardening tools. Probably comparable to Fiskars nowadays with traditional wood and more modern composite shafts.
If id known that half roll of tissue was in that toilet in the pandemic lol
😂
Amazing find! Thanks for sharing. I wonder what the story is behind this place.
Pro tip: if anyone is stealing stuff from a "deserted" site, take it before you start the video.
An idea of what would happen when people are gone, nature takes it back. I do love a good mooch about these abandoned places. Sadly people will take it back off nature again sometime and build houses or something. Pity these places can't be left alone forever for nature.
Really enjoyed this video, so interesting to see nature taking over and equally sad to see such a fab place left to ruin. Love watching your videos 😊
Hey man, how are you? Love your work. Thank you very much for it! I would really appreciate it if you could please do Hayes and Harlington, Uxbridge, Ruislip, Hounslow, Ealing, etc!
I know Hayes from researching Fairy Aviation. Is there anything else you could recommend to look up? (I know of the Great Barn, Battle of Britain bunker)
I wanted to by metal display benches like the ones in that greenhouse, but the cost a solid fortune, so I've had to make one out of pallets suspended on concrete blocks
Man rocking the Temu watch yeh love it
😂😂😂 proud owner of a fake Rolex
Knowing how expensive a small greenhouse is this makes me sad, I hope someone can restore it. A huge amount of food could be grown year round for the local community in such a place.
Yes! Excellent suggestion, I too have a small greenhouse, but I was worried about him have some glass fall on him and get tetanus or something funky.
@@ChrisInToon Yes derelict greenhouses aren't very safe due to the glass. I suppose all urban exploring has an element of risk.
My guess is they used the news papers as wrapping. Surprising 20 years nature has move well and truly back. Interesting video 2x👍 Garden centres are much better at Christmas time, all the trees decorated etc.
you make some of my favourite videos ive seen on youtube
Looks like one I’ve seen for years near Chester. As far as I know it didn’t have planning permission. I can remember it being open a long time ago.
There was an abandoned garden place a street away. That was left to rot for at least 7 years. Unfortunately it's gone now...replaced by 4 two family rental houses
Loads of useful stuff in there.
Didn't you feel like using the ladder you walk past. To get it out of the tree 🤔😆👍
Dunno why I didn’t think of that 🤣
@@wanderingturnip Because you are sensible... that thing wouldn't pass muster in today's Health & Safety ruled world and I bet you didn't have a High-Vis jacket either 🤣🤣🤣
How sad... can't imagine what series of unfortunate steps lead to the final closure and seemingly instant abandonment.
2 things had me worried... was that a another body in the suitcase murder and where were all the zombies!!!!!
Felt your pain with the drone in the tree issue, had the same happen to me last year. Could't see mine though but the video was still live. Me and the wife took a good half an hour or more to find and recover the precious little thing but, as with yours, all was well in the end 😱
Great job mate, I loved it, keep it up. Cheers 🍺
I can't believe that
😭😭😭😭😭really really sad
In my local area there are many industrial sized greenhouses stood empty on several different sites. Why is this I ask myself when we import tomatoes etc from abroad!
'Gonna need a bigger stick' - quote of the video 🤣
...he did have a ladder handy...
trolleys and stuff...some proper decent gear in there...😉 what was in the suitcase ??
12:05 "Oh my stick's broken! We're going to need a bigger stick!" - the wandering turnip
That sounds so dirty 😂😂😂
The metal plant staging, trolleys, plastic crates and one or two other things could be re-used.
I would turn it into a public garden. That would be nice :)
Incredible how abandoned things can last for a long time, even centuries sometimes and become a case for archeologist. 2004 newspapers... And so well preserved, along with other paraphernalia. 2004 is Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook date of birth. How incredible wanderimg turnip can be... We really ❤ this channel. Thank you.
Papers from 2004, have to admit I was a tad disappointed. I was thinking it might have been abandoned way before that, say back in the 1980s.
Nope 2020, newspapers are old stock for lining the potting trays.
How long are you in Norfolk/suffolk for?
Should look at Anglia Square, seriously.
Great Urbex
I'd be too worried the police would show up and do me for burglary or something stupid lol
Unknown to most people, the bramble is actually carnivorous. If the aim of the spines was defensive, they would point outwards, instead they point inwards (towards the root), meaning that animals which become entwined, are pulled towards the centre of the plant as they struggle to break free. Eventually the trapped animal dies and, whereas something like a decomposing deer will sterilise the surrounding vegetation for months, the roots of the bramble thrive!
Sheep and young deer are particularly vulnerable to brambles, with trapped animals oven being killed in under 24 hours.
Now that is interesting thank you 👍👍
Complete twaddle the farmers would be broke if something as innocuous as brambles threatened their livestock.
@@trevorwills3356 Not "twaddle". Brambles are a massive threat to certain types of livestock, with sheep in particular falling easy prey to them. This is why farmers either cut them well back (when growing through hedges), or simply dose them with glyphosate.
Having seen a group of people trying to free an escaped sheep that had become entangled in brambles, I was amazed at just how much work was involved. I was also amazed that the animal survived.
Do a google search on 'sheep trapped in brambles' and then go to images.
When i'm driving i'm normally on a "mission" trying to get from A to B in the best time. Maybe I need to stop sometimes and take a look around!
Long live droney 😄. Gid vid
Abandoned places where nature's come back, are more fun to explore than any famous 'landmark'.
So much decay, so little time.
Newspaper used for wrapping plants etc
I'm curious as to how long ago it was abandoned and whether there is a future for that area? It seems such a shame that life was teeming there at some point then, for myriad reasons, it all came crashing down.
Any history info, please pass on👍🏾
If the end of the world were nigh...I can just imagine The Wandering Turnip documenting every last moment, savouring every nuance of our demise🤭
It’s a great vid but bittersweet too.
so many nurseries and garden centres have shut down in the past decades.
Even councils used to have their own nurseries to grow annual bedding for parks etc.
Independent nurseries struggle, and most plants you buy are imported. Even more challenging they now require a plant passport since Brexit
Crazy times
You thumb nail came up on a recommended video and thought I recognised it!
The garden centre closed in around 2010 we live about 1 mile from it. Don't know what happened to the owners.