Narec, Hebburn, Jan 2013

[magpie]

Bloody freezing explore, but what the hell, I'm no fair weather explorer! pmsl...
Out with H1971 at Narec, Hebburn.
Huge building, height-wise, but not really much inside worth looking at, but another place done, crossed off...
Anyway, some history;-
Clothier High Voltage Laboratory
The Clothier Electrical Testing Laboratory was opened in 1970 by A. Reyrolle & Company. Narec took over the facility in 2004. The reason it was of interest to the renewable energy organisation was to use it to test the robustness of electrical infrastructure offshore locations to onshore sites, as well as to big load centres in the centre of the UK.
Although one of the only high voltage testing facilities in the world and completely unique in the UK, the facility was closed by Narec in 2011 due to a lack of government funding.
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sec camera's every where, mainly in the snow! PMSL....
Thanks for viewing...

[H1971]

nice

[catbalou]

best part about this place was the roof.
nice pics

[AJ]

I wonder how you got in...

The control room looks quite interesting.

[H1971]

I wonder how you got in...

The control room looks quite interesting.

now you know we cant tell you that lol

[The Stig]

Nice set of pics there erm? Don't want to point out but your first pic? Enterance point?

[AJ]

Now you know we cant tell you that lol

Fine, I'll stay at home.

Nice set of pics there erm? Don't want to point out but your first pic? Entrance point?

I doubt it matters, anyone wanting to visit will notice the front door wide open straight away when they're on site.

[magpie]

Nice set of pics there erm? Don't want to point out but your first pic? Enterance point?

cheers, yeah, true mate, debated whether to put it up or not, however, the place is full of holes! also, if they're that bothered, they should shut the roller shutter too! lol. ALSO, it's been closed since 2011 right? So they're obviously not that arsed bout the place, christ, even the sec cam was fucked!
*If mods have any issues with pics, especially pic 1, please feel free to remove.
cheers....

[Richt247]

Good pics looks like they've started demo as the front windows etc were all boarded up a few weeks ago

[dave]

Well done did you get or could you get anywhere near the other bits they are currently knocking down i did have a look recently and it may have been doable.