Atmospheric Research Station, Mar. '10

Found this a couple of months back. For various reasons I'm not going to reveal the exact location here and now.

The station seems to have been built in the 1950s to test atmospheric instruments and monitor meteorological phenomena. Abandoned c. 2000-2004, it looks very much like everyone just walked away one day - computers, paperwork and instruments have been left behind and rather alarmingly no-one has thought to cut off the power or water yet. I even tried the button on an ancient desktop PC replete with huge CRT monitor and it sprang into life - quite a surprise.


Hut 1.


Desk


Large display screen


Hut 2.


Hut 2 interior with working lights


Hut 2 interior - other direction


Various components


Notes


Glassware


Punched tape


Hut 3


No idea what this is, it's half inside, half outside and about 20' long


Hut 4 and mast


Hut 4


Hut 4


Mast


Weather station


Stevenson screen


Chemicals


Wind direction meter


Paperwork


Graffiti

Thanks for reading,

A.

Fantastic find!!! Did you come across a teleprinter to go with the punched tape, or was that just random crap?

looks nice and hiden, nice find and great pics good to see there is still loads of goodies in there to

Seahorse said:

Fantastic find!!! Did you come across a teleprinter to go with the punched tape, or was that just random crap?

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Unfortunately I didn't see one but I wouldn't be surprised if there was - the site was packed full of obselete technology.

Might be worth removing the shot of the notebook - data protection being what it is, the mobile number is rather evident on it.

That's a great find. So many interesting bits and bobs. Nice one.

JHML, thanks for flagging that up, said number has now been pixellated.