pyestock

The History: I won't go into great detail about the history as it is very well documented elsewhere. The National Gas Establishment Pyestock was a branch facility serving the Royal Aircraft Establishment down the road at Farnborough. It was the UK's primary site for the design and development...

I had no idea about this site, but was invited by Zippy to come check it out. Rookinella had become a bit of an exploring buddy by this time, so the three of us set up a meeting time. It was a beautiful day as we met in a car park some half a mile from the site. At this point, I had never seen a...

I saw a report on Pyestock posted on the facebook group the other day and i'll be lying if I don't smile to myself when someone mentions the place. Its where it all started for me after coming across a mention of it online, where my website was concieved and where I had my first proper run in...

A little footnote from earlier in the year I never got around to uploading it would seem. I was in the area delivering something for work so thought I'd pay a visit here, the part of Pyestock that everyone overlooked back in the day - and for good reason because why would you bother with this...

I won't bother with the history as you've all seen it before, but a couple of weeks ago I went to what's left of Pyestock.- the Anechoic Chamber With the diggers waiting outside I would imagine this last building standing is now nearly gone too. Wasn't actually optimistic on getting in and had...

Pyestock National Gas Turbine Establishment, part of the Royal Aircraft Establishment was the site of the design and development of gas turbine and jet engines. Construction on Pyestock started in 1949, with further construction in the 60’s. The site was said to be the largest of its kind in the...

I live a stones throw away from this site, so around 10 years ago, managed to visit countless times. Security wasn't the greatest and for a site of this size, there was always a way in. It surprised me though how little it was trashed and in the main only explorers seemed to visit. We managed...

Text stolen from my blog. Pyestock. A name that still echoes with many explorers. It was over ten years ago that we first visited and it was during our penultimate visit that we sat atop the Bramshott cooling towers at night looking towards the then still-in-use Noise Test facility, wondering...

So i started writing this a few months ago but ran out of time. In the current situation time is hardly a constraint for alot of us tho so i thought id make the effort to finish. Maybe some of you are in the same boat and can take the time to do some decent reports too. I know theres alot out...

How much of Pyestock is still standing. Is it still worth a visit or had it all been flattened?

This had been on my wish-list for a while due to the unusual nature of the building. The lack of sound inside was rather special. Quite tricky to photograph. Evidences of some demo work. Def worth going if you are nearby. It's a total walk-in. Trying my best here to do a few different angles but...

"Everyone needs a good slice of Pyestock"... And I couldn't agree more! For a good few weeks, @Olkka and I had been planning something on a miniature road trip to Pyestock, and with a somewhat considerable amount of chopping and changing to our provisional dates, we finally followed through...

Decided to pay this a visit as heard it's soon to be demolished and the large blue air intake boxes had already been removed. Was fairly easy to access, couple of fences to go over and a little climb and we were in, was such a weird experience being inside there definitely never had an explore...

More pics I've never bothered posting. As much as I loved visiting this place, I found it was a total cunt to shoot with those fucking horrendous lights on. Much happier with the ones I lit myself! Visited with @Grom and prettyvacant71. Such a good day out! Grom did an urbex poo in a bucket of...

History The National Gas Turbine Establishment, part of the royal aircraft establishment was the prime site in the UK for design and development of gas turbine and jet engines. It was created by merging the design teams of Frank Whittle's Power Jets and the RAE turbine development team run by...