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Explorer272
  
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<Reply # 20 on 4/26/2007 9:07 PM >
|  | | | Still verry easy to get in just go threw the vent.
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nootz
  
location:
Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
| |  | Re: Places in Halifax, Nova Scotia
<Reply # 21 on 4/26/2007 9:11 PM >
| | | | Yeah, I saw that a couple weekends ago, it was getting pretty late when I went up though, so I didn't get a chance to go inside, I'll see if I can get in this weekend
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Explorer272
Gender: Male
Hmm, Vanish? I know a few people that should Vanish
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<Reply # 22 on 4/26/2007 9:15 PM >
| | | | Ya that is the way i have gotten in to the place sence i first started going there. the only problem is getting up on the old guard house. you will need to get something to stand on so you can pull yourself up. when you are looking at the front of the building go to the left of that little building and there is an inlet in the building just work your way up
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nootz
location:
Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
| | | Re: Places in Halifax, Nova Scotia
<Reply # 23 on 4/26/2007 9:21 PM >
| | | | I know what you're talking about, I just said that it was getting late (meaning getting dark out). And there were some bricks piled up next to the side of the the building forming a set of steps.
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Explorer272
Gender: Male
Hmm, Vanish? I know a few people that should Vanish
| | Re: Places in Halifax, Nova Scotia
<Reply # 24 on 4/26/2007 9:28 PM >
| | | | yes thanks to me and my friends.
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nootz
location:
Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
| | | Re: Places in Halifax, Nova Scotia
<Reply # 25 on 4/26/2007 9:31 PM >
| | | | Haha, awesome, I applaud you for that one. It makes everybody's life so much easier.
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moneywagon
location:
Halifax, NS
Gender: Male
Its only tresspassing if someone catches you.
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<Reply # 26 on 5/15/2007 4:06 PM >
| | | | If your looking for cool places around Halifax, the only place with the exception of the sites listed on this site would be the abandoned radar station in Beaverbank. It used to be Part of the Pine Tree Line (group of cold war era radar station and monitoring posts) its probably the coolest and creepiest place around, its also very accessable and quite large, so you can explore for a good half hour.
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moneywagon
location:
Halifax, NS
Gender: Male
Its only tresspassing if someone catches you.
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<Reply # 27 on 5/15/2007 4:40 PM >
| | | | well sorry to post something thats already been posted, but to update the accessability of the site, you can easily get in through the vents on the front of the building, we were there recently and ended up going back 3 days in a row with different people who were curious about the building. Just be careful as the floor is unsafe in many place, i weigh about 230 so i let my 150lb friends walk ahead of me, and its its overcast bring a flashlight because its really dark inside unless its nice and sunny out. As far as getting back there, if you have an old car like i do, you can bypass the gate (with a little offroad finesse) and drive right back to the bunker, saves you a good 15 minute walk, and you car doesn't have to sit at the gate just waiting for the cops to come investigate.
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nootz
location:
Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
| | | Re: Places in Halifax, Nova Scotia
<Reply # 28 on 5/16/2007 12:29 AM >
| | | | Yeah, I already knew this stuff before I even went up to the Villa for the first time. I'd prefer to know the history of locations before I head up there.
Does anybody know where Fort Sackville and McAlpines Blockhouse are??
[last edit 5/16/2007 12:33 AM by nootz - edited 1 times]
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nootz
location:
Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
| | | Re: Places in Halifax, Nova Scotia
<Reply # 30 on 5/16/2007 3:21 AM >
| | | | I agree, even if people don't know how to get in. PM the people you want to discuss entrances with.
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moneywagon
location:
Halifax, NS
Gender: Male
Its only tresspassing if someone catches you.
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<Reply # 31 on 5/17/2007 2:59 PM >
| | | | I apologize, is that a stated rule or just you preference?
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darbycrashin
 
Noble Donor
location:
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Gender: Female
| | Re: Places in Halifax, Nova Scotia
<Reply # 32 on 5/17/2007 5:29 PM >
| | | | standard rule.. it's even something you agree to do when signing up to this site.
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nootz
location:
Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
| | | Re: Places in Halifax, Nova Scotia
<Reply # 33 on 5/17/2007 9:19 PM >
| | | | In one of my previous posts, I saw that I asked where Fort Sackville and McAlpines Blockhouse are.
Anybody have any clues?
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Recoil
location:
Halifax, NS
Gender: Male
| | Re: Places in Halifax, Nova Scotia
<Reply # 34 on 5/18/2007 10:42 AM >
| | | | Posted by nootz
In one of my previous posts, I saw that I asked where Fort Sackville and McAlpines Blockhouse are.
Anybody have any clues?
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I just found this decent resource of forts saying that it's on "McAlpines Hill" in the Bedford area.
http://www.geociti.../ns2.html#mcalpine
Anyone know Bedford very well?
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hfx_chris
location:
Dartmouth, NS
Gender: Male
| | Re: Places in Halifax, Nova Scotia
<Reply # 35 on 5/18/2007 1:02 PM >
| | | | That doesn't necessarily mean it's in present day Bedford... they refer to the road as Windsor / Bedford Road. Windsor Street is in Halifax, and once upon a time present day Windsor St. and present day Bedford Highway I believe were one continuous road. McAlpine's Hill could simply be an older name for the present day area near Windsor and Kempt Road.
Or it could be in Bedford.
*shrug*
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moneywagon
location:
Halifax, NS
Gender: Male
Its only tresspassing if someone catches you.
| | Re: Places in Halifax, Nova Scotia
<Reply # 36 on 5/18/2007 4:29 PM >
| | | | Fort Sackville only exists in name now, ive search the area around where it was and there is nothing left to indicate that there was ever a fortification there, and the area has become so built up that im sure its been either built over or changed in such a way that its not non-existant. This is what remains on the site now......
http://www.scottmanorhouse.ca/
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moneywagon
location:
Halifax, NS
Gender: Male
Its only tresspassing if someone catches you.
| | Re: Places in Halifax, Nova Scotia
<Reply # 37 on 5/18/2007 4:31 PM >
| | | | The fort was built in 1750 and then transferred to windsor, so its likely that it was dismantled or destroyed when this change ocurred.
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nootz
location:
Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
| | | Re: Places in Halifax, Nova Scotia
<Reply # 38 on 5/18/2007 10:41 PM >
| | | | Posted by moneywagon
The fort was built in 1750 and then transferred to windsor, so its likely that it was dismantled or destroyed when this change ocurred.
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The fort wasn't transferred to Windsor, one of the guns were. As for that building, it looks a lot like the fortifications at Fort Anne in Annapolis Royal. So my guess is that's where Fort Sackville once was.
As for McAlpines: I saw a building along the Bedford Highway, just on the other side of the train tracks. It's a round building, is on a cliff-type thing. I'm just curious if this is the blockhouse. Here are the coordinates for Google Earth/Maps:
44°41'26.54"N 63°39'33.67"W
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hfx_chris
location:
Dartmouth, NS
Gender: Male
| | Re: Places in Halifax, Nova Scotia
<Reply # 39 on 5/21/2007 11:47 PM >
| | | | No.. a fort built in 1808 would not still be standing and looking that pretty today. I don't remember the name of that building, but I think most people refer to it as the round house.
Besides, a blockhouse is square.
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