The building houses labs and offices that were used for the quality and development testing of many different products. These ranged from Boots own brand products, some you wouldn't usually associate with Boots, ant and slug destroyer for example. Right through to electrical (irons, kettles, radio's and more) and other domestic products from different manufacturers that they would have sold. It's also possible that they did independent tests for other companies.
I've searched quite a bit and haven't found much information on this particular site, maybe because Boots transfered the Testing work to their main site not too far away. All I have managed to find is this...
Basically the development was nice, new shiney offices. They either didn't get the planning permission or just haven't got the funds to start the development yet. If they had, I wouldn't be writing this
It's hard to say when the building was first used by Boots. The earliest dates on paperwork are from the 70's but it's possible they were there earlier. It's easier to say when Boots stopped using the building for testing. One of the peices of equipment has got a safety test sticker on it, dated 24/11/05 and else where there's the certificate for the 'Employers Liability' insurance with an exiry date of 31/3/06, so it would be sometime between those two dates.
It's been hit by copper thieves, quite badly in some places. There's still alot to see and some quite interesting bits, the Technical Library being one. Quite alot of reference books and other paperwork left in there.
I've visited a few times, that's why haven't put a date in the title because the visits have been spread over about 6 months. Not much has changed from the first to the last visit, just more of the usual pikey/metal thieve damage.
The visits have been with a few other members on here, Kaputnik, Neosea, Ashless and the_revolution. The last being with Neosea.
On with the pics..
It had to be done
Was good to get onto the roof, so good views and pics but very exposed so was pretty much a rush job up there
Nottingham Eye
Ratcliffe Power Station in the distance
Rest are the previous visits are here, here and here.
Have left some out so the other visitors can post some different pics. I know there's some good one's to come from them
I've searched quite a bit and haven't found much information on this particular site, maybe because Boots transfered the Testing work to their main site not too far away. All I have managed to find is this...
Basically the development was nice, new shiney offices. They either didn't get the planning permission or just haven't got the funds to start the development yet. If they had, I wouldn't be writing this
It's hard to say when the building was first used by Boots. The earliest dates on paperwork are from the 70's but it's possible they were there earlier. It's easier to say when Boots stopped using the building for testing. One of the peices of equipment has got a safety test sticker on it, dated 24/11/05 and else where there's the certificate for the 'Employers Liability' insurance with an exiry date of 31/3/06, so it would be sometime between those two dates.
It's been hit by copper thieves, quite badly in some places. There's still alot to see and some quite interesting bits, the Technical Library being one. Quite alot of reference books and other paperwork left in there.
I've visited a few times, that's why haven't put a date in the title because the visits have been spread over about 6 months. Not much has changed from the first to the last visit, just more of the usual pikey/metal thieve damage.
The visits have been with a few other members on here, Kaputnik, Neosea, Ashless and the_revolution. The last being with Neosea.
On with the pics..
It had to be done
Was good to get onto the roof, so good views and pics but very exposed so was pretty much a rush job up there
Nottingham Eye
Ratcliffe Power Station in the distance
Rest are the previous visits are here, here and here.
Have left some out so the other visitors can post some different pics. I know there's some good one's to come from them
