This place has been done a few times! Been on the cards for me for awhile. Went down with diehardlove and burb147. Although its very trashed there are still some very cool things to see! We all got very wet as it was lobbing it down all day, still work the effot!
Quite pic heavy....
A short history, extracted from another post for those interested:
"It was at Whetstone that Frank Whittle set up what is believed to have been the first factory in the World built specifically for jet engine production. By 1944, up to 300 employees were producing 20 engines a month for the Gloster Meteor aircraft. Whittle’s original Company was called Power Jets Ltd. This became part of the National Gas Turbine Establishment in 1946 and was later transferred to Pyestock. The Whetstone site was acquired by English Electric, which then became GEC and is now ALSTOM. There has been an almost continuous presence of staff working on gas turbine design, development, test and production for the last 50 years. Back in the 1940’s the Whetstone site also developed and tested new jet engine ideas. The related activity of gas turbine development is carried on to this day at Whetstone by the ALSTOM Power Technology Centre. It takes place now in a state-of-the-art test facility just yards from the original buildings and named after the pioneer, the Whittle Research Centre. The site also housed the Atomic Power Division and Mechanical Engineering Laboratories. A lot of early computer technology was developed here, as well as robotics, wind turbines, and nuclear power plant, among other things."
Large lifting equipment in one of the warehouses
As you can see the pikeys have been doing their job! There are also demolition markers all over the walls!
There were all sort of interesting drawings and documents left lying about.
Former reception area
Lots of interesting machinery left lying about...
The famous CO2 testing pits
Looks like a large drill press?
Paint peelage
Hazardous materials.......
Offices full of yet more documents!
Rest of the images on my website
Quite pic heavy....
A short history, extracted from another post for those interested:
"It was at Whetstone that Frank Whittle set up what is believed to have been the first factory in the World built specifically for jet engine production. By 1944, up to 300 employees were producing 20 engines a month for the Gloster Meteor aircraft. Whittle’s original Company was called Power Jets Ltd. This became part of the National Gas Turbine Establishment in 1946 and was later transferred to Pyestock. The Whetstone site was acquired by English Electric, which then became GEC and is now ALSTOM. There has been an almost continuous presence of staff working on gas turbine design, development, test and production for the last 50 years. Back in the 1940’s the Whetstone site also developed and tested new jet engine ideas. The related activity of gas turbine development is carried on to this day at Whetstone by the ALSTOM Power Technology Centre. It takes place now in a state-of-the-art test facility just yards from the original buildings and named after the pioneer, the Whittle Research Centre. The site also housed the Atomic Power Division and Mechanical Engineering Laboratories. A lot of early computer technology was developed here, as well as robotics, wind turbines, and nuclear power plant, among other things."
Large lifting equipment in one of the warehouses
As you can see the pikeys have been doing their job! There are also demolition markers all over the walls!
There were all sort of interesting drawings and documents left lying about.
Former reception area
Lots of interesting machinery left lying about...
The famous CO2 testing pits
Looks like a large drill press?
Paint peelage
Hazardous materials.......
Offices full of yet more documents!
Rest of the images on my website