Awesome Adelaide – Page 22 of 49 – A photoblog of Adelaide's abandoned buildings, underground tunnels and places to explore. Urban exploration (urbex), off-limits, spelunking, drains, derelict buildings & ruins.

September 24, 2015

Urban Exploring: Bad Boy Bubby

Released in 1993, Australian film Bad Boy Bubby quickly rose to cult-like status. Joining many other films shot in Adelaide, it tells the story of Bubby, a man who has spent the first 35 years of his life locked in a disgusting basement by his abusive and controlling mother.

Bad Boy Bubby Scene — Awesome Adelaide — Scene from Australian cult film Bad Boy Bubby. (Image courtesy Fandango Bubby Pty Ltd)

Several months after Bad Boy Bubby was completed, the film was entered in the 1993 Venice Film Festival. The film ‘tore the place down’. It instantly became an award-winning success.

Director Rolf de Heer used several locations around Port Adelaide for Bad Boy Bubby. The very same locations are regularly used by amateur photographers & videographers to perfect their craft.

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September 13, 2015

Urban Exploring: Hagrid’s Hut

Hagrid’s Hut was built in the 19th century. Of stone construction it contains multiple internal levels — including one below ground.

Having sat disused for nearly half a century most people have forgotten Hagrid’s. Rodent feces litters the floor. Cobwebs entwine the wooden support beams. Machinery left as-is; serving as a reminder of what once was…

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September 4, 2015

Urban Exploring: The Jackson Bunker

The Bombing of Darwin had Adelaide residents living in fear. Amid broadcasts we were next to be targeted by the Imperial Japanese Army, residents and officials were in a panic and the best way they knew to protect themselves was to build underground bunkers.

The Jackson Bunker — Awesome Adelaide — Illustration of an underground bunker. (Photo courtesy Fallout Shelter Handbook by Chuck West)

The Jackson Bunker was built amid the panic; 12 feet underground with 4 breather pipes and electric lighting. In a similar fashion, other air-raid shelters were constructed around Adelaide in their hundreds; most of which still exist today…

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