BOCM Disused Pig testing facility, Terrick *Very pic heavy*

I posted this up on 28dl as well, but hopefully I will not make such a dogs breakfast of it this time! This is my first urbex, and carried out over two days. This is quite picture heavy, but I have resized all of the pictures.

This is my first urbex attempt, go easy on me :-d

Closed between 1982 and 1985, BOCM research centre did genetic testing on pigs. It lay empty for many years, but was purchased by LandLink PLC for development in 2004, but its application for building work was refused twice. It is now for sale again for £1,900,000.

The site has obviously been visited a few times over the years due to its vanadalism level, and lots of random stuff remained in the sheds.

Two or three buildings are also burnt out.

Terrick is on the Risborough road between Stoke Mandeville and Coombe Hill. BOCM is accesible from North Lee Lane























The site has been used as a dumping ground for many years:






Seems a shame



Some sort of old Video player?





Hmmm, Very asylumy



What a waste

The Level of decay in this place was insane:




































With lots of random items in sheds, Perhaps these were squatted in once?:









The obligitry Toilet block shots:








A small feeding silo:




Now for the cherry on the cake!:

Caretakers house, semi-dettached but sadly completley destroyed by chavs and fire. This place has a summer house complete with loo:












Summer house with outdoor loo





Garden Stables:






and Garden Sheds:


Really sad sight to see...




I hope you enjoyed my report, and that it wasn't to picture heavy. I have compressed these photos. Ok for a first go?

Nice, good pictures too. It would probably be best to post a few of your very best one (say 7-10 of them) and put a link to your online album. Nice work though, I look forward to more!

I had to make a DNA fingerprint from an old sample of pig that came from there. well that's what my told us over and over and over. A truly boring man.

Nice pics you've got there, but you might want to watch it around all that smashed asbestos.

That place has all sorts of random junk, about 7 pics in there appears to be a camper van roof.

That video is one of the Philips N1500 series of machines http://www.oldtechnology.net/vcr.html

wheres the resdt of the mk1 fiesta? i spy boot boards and a parcel shelf

I like some of the features in the caretakers house. The fireplace looks cool, an that cooker looks in better nick than mine, doesn't look like the door falls off that one.

Good to see the retro vacuum cleaner (showing my age now, but I remember my parents having one of those, in fact, I think they've still got it, hidden away in the loft).

Cheers, some interesting shots there.

Sal

Huge site! Really like the huts and the garden sheds and stables. Sad it's so trashed, though.
The bit I really like is the very rickety, wavy hut.
Cheers.

Nice!I love the random junk. My mam had an Electrolux vacuum cleaner identical to that. The scooter thing is cool too, if Sausage sees this he'll want that for drain exploration transport

Seems like a huge price they want for it. ANy idea how much land it is?

Pseudonym said:

I had to make a DNA fingerprint from an old sample of pig that came from there. well that's what my told us over and over and over. A truly boring man.

Nice pics you've got there, but you might want to watch it around all that smashed asbestos.

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Can I ask how you know thats smashed Asbestos

Can you tell me the date that the pig came to you? 80s some time??

Yes it is a campervan roof, VERY random, and that weird trailor had a plate on it that was H-reg 89-90, so the place has been used for storage since. It was very sad to see that house burnt to the ground, that was once someones home you know, real shame.

I wish it was all still in tact, but its so easy to get into, just a walk straight through on a path, so its asking for that damage.

I went there alone today, and kept looking over my shoulder, that place is so intimidating, especially that house. It was so badly burnt, there was no upstairs.

vmlopes said:

Can I ask how you know thats smashed Asbestos

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Corrugated roofing and facia boards on buildings of this era are inevitably made from asbestos cement, certainly so when you can clearly see broken/smashed out areas that are typical of this product.

I'm not sure how old the place itself is, maybe 60s, 70s. I might go back yet again, with a light, and a freind. I had people the first time, but not the second time, and it is creepy. I darnet go upstairs in the house because of the fire.

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Can I ask how you know thats smashed Asbestos

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You're right, I can't be certain that it's asbestos, but if it looks like a man eating duck and sounds like a man eating duck. You can be sure that I'll be treating it like it's a duck that wants to eat me. Or in this case, ruin my lungs.

The corrugated roofing material (first pics in both sets) really does look like asbestos board which has been snapped. Whilst it's probably safe to walk around it (that kind of board is quite safe if it's undisturbed), I wouldn't want to walk over it and kick up dust. Even if I'm wrong about it being asbestos, it's probably not a great idea to walk over mounds of collapsed building (I'm not going to tell him what he should and shouldn't do, but I think it is common courtesy to point it out).

Phew that's a lot of photos! Some nice ones though

And there was me thinking it was going to be somewhere that CS spray and batons were tested...

Pseudonym said:

You're right, I can't be certain that it's asbestos, but if it looks like a man eating duck and sounds like a man eating duck. You can be sure that I'll be treating it like it's a duck that wants to eat me. Or in this case, ruin my lungs.

The corrugated roofing material (first pics in both sets) really does look like asbestos board which has been snapped. Whilst it's probably safe to walk around it (that kind of board is quite safe if it's undisturbed), I wouldn't want to walk over it and kick up dust. Even if I'm wrong about it being asbestos, it's probably not a great idea to walk over mounds of collapsed building (I'm not going to tell him what he should and shouldn't do, but I think it is common courtesy to point it out).

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Got to agree with you there Pseudonym, had seen these on 28DL so did not really look at them in depth, but you right, almost certain thats corrugated Asbestos sheets and broken ones at that.......not good.

This place has something that makes me want to keep going back

































Me thinks I went I went a bit mad on my first urbex!

A rather bizarre collection of buildings!

Well done for documenting this place

Cheers LM

Lightbuoy said:

A rather bizarre collection of buildings!

Well done for documenting this place

Cheers LM

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Thanks man. Im gonna go back with a light, and video it. Oh btw! Put more pics into my previous post. I found some weird electric things hanging from the ceiling!! At pig head level too! I might also climb the side of the silo, and POSSIBLY the ladder thats inside the house, but Im probably not going to risk walking upstairs with half the floor gone.

Really good report dude, well done for a first time, keep at it Some good pictures there, huge site.