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Hi Maramotus,

This looks quite a large site, The picture you took on the roof looks as though you are right over the edge. Would love to see more pics.

Thanks for posting. :D
Simon-G
 
Simon-G;10416; said:
This looks quite a large site, The picture you took on the roof looks as though you are right over the edge. Would love to see more pics.

Yes, it would be good to see more as it does look rather interesting.
Cheers
Foxy :)
 
Interesting. There is a similar, though not abandoned site on the Saint Ives Estae outside Bingley near bradford west yorks. They experiment with different kinds of grass, mainly for the purpose of different sports activities, i believe. Loads of different fields with different types of grass in, i think you can do a tour if you call them.:)
 
Glad to see your interest in the place! The picture is actually a floor higher - there is a door opening out onto the flat roof, and then a ladder over the top of that - so about 4 stories high. Was quite windy and with no rails, I was on my knees and still crapping myself somewhat. Not so good with heights really!

I haven't been back since the fire, but I'm told it was in the building you can see with the pitched roof. That's where the paperwork was sadly, so there may not be much lying around.

A planning application for an office building at the site has been approved, but it has been delayed by conditions on lighting. Shan't be there much longer it seems :(

I will gladly post some more pictures when I get back to my computer.
 
Looks like a great site, I wouldn't be at all surprised if you found out that they created somke break throughs there. We need more places dedicated to farming imo. We need more bloody farms for that matter.

Nice report, looks like a very easy going site :D
 
Hi Maramotus
Just been looking at your pics as you're putting them in the gallery & really enjoying them.
About the 'green thing'. I had an idea, and I might be totally wrong, but it looks like a shower head & I wondered if it might be something to do with decontamination. As they're testing different grasses, they might have to shower off plastic suiting or boots, etc, so that they don't carry seeds & cross-pollinate accidentally (not them, the grass! :D).
Just a thought.
Cheers
Foxy :)
 
Agree with Foxy,

Crackin' pics buddy -always amazes me how the same place can look totally different, depending on the weather.

Lb:cool:
 
I agree Cobweb, it's always the small places like these that can specialise and come up with some odd but groundbreaking research. Rather like the former local urbex haunt, the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital and it's specialist treatment of arthritis (although again, from the state of the buildings, you wouldn't know much about what went on there).

You would think that about the green things - I'll have to take a closer look next time I go there, see what it's connected up to. There are a fair few of them dotted around the buildings. I don't recall any drains in the corridors however, if it was actually a shower.

Apparently, according to a friend's family friend, they had live animals coming in and eating grass and things. From the records I have looked at they also used radioactive substances for some of their experiments. Still not quite sure exactly what went on where; some rooms are obviously offices or laboratories, but others are just bare and non-descript.

The place does look a lot better in the sunshine, I must agree. I went in on sunny days in spring and summer, and it really brightens the place up. I have been in on overcast days in the spring and winter too, and it looks very drab, and reflects badly in the photos too. The 'scary blind' mentioned in the gallery was flapping about inconsistently in moderate winds, a little disconcerting, but not comparable to slamming doors.

The heating tunnel follows the corridor line across the bottom of the building, with hatches placed periodically along the floor. That wasn't too exciting, although there was another one which had little rooms coming off it, and ended in a utility cupboard with a few feet drop to the floor - rather strange. They were only big enough to crawl through, and I have hit my head on one of the pipes, foolishly.:eek:

Thanks for all the positive comments - I'm back in the area from 25 March, so if anyone is interested, give me a shout.
 
maramotus;10812; said:
The 'scary blind' mentioned in the gallery was flapping about inconsistently in moderate winds, a little disconcerting, but not comparable to slamming doors.

I must say I love that 'scary blind' pic. It looks totally psychotic, even more so in B&W. I dread to think what it must have looked like flapping about!!! :eek:
Cheers
Foxy :)
 
Is that place near Henley by any chance? think it may be the place that I stumbled across a few months back, a huge fire damged hall by the looks of it. Builders were on site so is being redeveloped.
 

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