Tales of the Urban Explorer: Mode NightClub

After seeing someone on Facebook post some images of Mode Nightclub in the war-torn city of Bradford, I felt I had better write my story up.

I visited this beautiful building in October 2019, and before I forget what happened need to spit out my story and experience.

This nightclub has been empty since 2011 after sources suggest that the club was shut down following repeated claims of violence and crime against the club and the customers.

According to my source, a group of violent individuals came from Birmingham on a Saturday night and assaulted multiple clubbers, staff and eventually wrecking the entire club. The local council (CBDMC) closed the club shortly after.

Nightclubs are rarely pretty places when viewed from the outside, and Mode was never that. Now it looks like a right old wreck (see cover), and this is the best it ever looked (below)

In 2015 it was torched and a homeless person had to be rescued from the smoke and flames.

While inside we found evidence of another one sleeping in there, with the sleeping bag being in decent condition. Such is their desperation to find a roof for the night.

'Mode' was a pig to find, to be honest. We knew it was somewhere central and had almost given up when it was suddenly there in all its ruinous glory.

Having done my homework, I visually knew where the access point was, but leaping over a spiky fence was not as easy, though someone had nicely placed a chair on the other side of it.

Fortunately, both I and @goblinknackers retained our bollocks and from there it was plain sailing.

Some pisshead was knocking around the entrance but seemed oblivious to what we were doing, and I had no doubts the police sirens would not be entering my eardrums any time soon.

Isn’t it great when you see something like this? Don’t think it’s as easy as spotting this gaping hole, you will need to do some homework to find Mode and the way in.

Why is everything black in night clubs? Is it because the night is dark and the paintwork needs to match?

The grounds are a little overgrown, but this was never the front entrance.

If anyone wants to check 'Companies House', then here are all the details. They may still be in business somewhere else in the north.

Inside was dark, and I mean dark. We needed the huge torch or these photographs would have been grainy and unclear.

This could have been the office; it has one of those one-way windows, except it's suffered a little damage.

The comfy leather two-seater probably hosted much frolicking back in the day. I didn't loiter around looking for stains.

You always get words of pure wisdom, it’s like poetic geniuses have been inside before we got here.

This was a creepy place, full of intermittent noises coming from I don’t know where. Several times I looked at this view expecting something to be coming toward me.

We started into the depths, down some stairs and found what I would describe as, ‘a labyrinth of passages’.

One part had suffered from fire (as per the report above) but it seemed a little minor. The fire services had left momentoes behind.

This was the homeless room; the bottle of Pepsi looked fresh though I didn’t take a gulp to check the fizz levels.

The farther down we descended the more interesting it got. The pump equipment had been left behind.

Beer barrels were also evident. Wonder what it tasted like after 8 years of fermenting? Tempting as it was, we gave it a miss.

The cellars and lower sections were even creepier than the upper levels and I was concerned the pisshead who saw us come in may bring the homeless crew down upon us.

It took around 30 minutes to get around the warren of lower levels, arising in a different place than we descended.

Despite my jumpiness, we saw nobody throughout the explore and with a few departing shots said goodbye to this, not so photogenic location.

Alarm deterrents are frequent and often abandoned as was the case with 'Mode'.

There’s something called Castaways next to Mode which looks like yet another club. By the time we left, we were clubbed out.

'Mode' is a little different than usual explores, and worth the visit especially the lower level areas.

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