An urban explorer has shared what he discovered when he entered explored an abandoned nightclub in Birmingham. Jack, not his real name, explored inside Snobs’ former venue at Smallbrook Queensway (‘old Snobs’, but not ‘old, old Snobs’).
Spookily, the legendary venue’s instantly recognisable wall faces were still inside – though not in the condition they once were. Jack also found a laptop, gold skull decorations, and a dusty ATM machine.
All of the venue’s bars, structurally, were still in place. Jack also he claimed he found a bag of what appeared to be drugs, which he theorised had been confiscated from a reveller, in an open safe along with “hundreds” of lost driving licences which were never collected.
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Jack, who also explored abandoned Broad Street bars Players and Pryzm, said he was “sad to see” so many clubs closed. “Sad to see Birmingham’s nightclub scene going so bad recently,” he said. “But well done to Snobs and Players. They were wicked explores.”
Snobs, a famous name in the West Midlands and beyond, relocated to Broad Street earlier this year. The nightclub, which opened its first venue more than 50 years ago, before it closed in 2014, has taken over the former Velvet Music Rooms site.
Jack told BirminghamLive that he had never been to the Smallbrook Queensway venue as a reveller. He said: “Never when it was open, but I did go Gatecrashers, Players and Oceana. Super strange seeing them all closed like this.”
On what he found inside, he said: “There were around 200 to 300 driving licences and a bag of coke in the safe.” We contacted Snobs for comment on Jack’s discoveries, found long after the bar closed, but the venue did not get back to us.