Well this was a rather pleasant explore, it started out as what we thought were going to be some boring offices and turned out to be a very cool location.
On the A4 just by a roundabout on the way back from Maidenhead I was stuck in traffic and spotted through a gap in the hedge a boarded up office block. The pic below from Google earth shows this gap before they cladded the gate sky high with spikes and razor wire:
After a bit of research I discovered this used to be the head offices for Scottish and Southern Energy and we decided to go have a quick look.
The pic below shows that this place is quite alot bigger than it first appears. We ventured down the footpath (in pink) and took a side entrance:
We were then pleasantly surprised to walk into some very grand grounds
and we were greeted by this:
We approached the mansion to see it was plastered with cameras and also just around the corner we find this very tastefully (NOT!) modified E36 3 Series - turns out they have 24hr security
so anyway we thought it would be best to look around the offices first and then see how much of the mansion and grounds we could explore before we got caught.
Unfortunatly this means we didn't get any internal shots, but nevertheless...
Offices:
It's very amateur but I like this pic:
Random but very characteristic cottage on site:
The grounds and other random finds:
Still keeping the grounds tidy
A very picturesque bird house
Old tennis court
Now demolished sports hall, you can just see the old lines on the floor
Not overly sure what this part was
Main entrance
The irony shot
Green house
Little furnace
Kiln
Inside one of the stores there were some interesting docs
The plans for the modifications for their new V8 Land Rover "Gang van" -Docs dated 1983-1986
And also for an old Dodge flatbed
August 1981
After a good explore, we ventured back to the mansion to see how much we get round:
You can't see me!!
Building next to the mansion
Well that's it. We didn't get caught and had a very pleasant roam.
We came back the next day to show another friend and within 10minutes we were spotted and asked to leave
I hope you guys like!
On the A4 just by a roundabout on the way back from Maidenhead I was stuck in traffic and spotted through a gap in the hedge a boarded up office block. The pic below from Google earth shows this gap before they cladded the gate sky high with spikes and razor wire:
After a bit of research I discovered this used to be the head offices for Scottish and Southern Energy and we decided to go have a quick look.
The pic below shows that this place is quite alot bigger than it first appears. We ventured down the footpath (in pink) and took a side entrance:
We were then pleasantly surprised to walk into some very grand grounds
and we were greeted by this:
We approached the mansion to see it was plastered with cameras and also just around the corner we find this very tastefully (NOT!) modified E36 3 Series - turns out they have 24hr security
so anyway we thought it would be best to look around the offices first and then see how much of the mansion and grounds we could explore before we got caught.
Unfortunatly this means we didn't get any internal shots, but nevertheless...
Offices:
It's very amateur but I like this pic:
Random but very characteristic cottage on site:
The grounds and other random finds:
Still keeping the grounds tidy
A very picturesque bird house
Old tennis court
Now demolished sports hall, you can just see the old lines on the floor
Not overly sure what this part was
Main entrance
The irony shot
Green house
Little furnace
Kiln
Inside one of the stores there were some interesting docs
The plans for the modifications for their new V8 Land Rover "Gang van" -Docs dated 1983-1986
And also for an old Dodge flatbed
August 1981
After a good explore, we ventured back to the mansion to see how much we get round:
You can't see me!!
Building next to the mansion
Well that's it. We didn't get caught and had a very pleasant roam.
We came back the next day to show another friend and within 10minutes we were spotted and asked to leave
I hope you guys like!
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