testing site

After seeing a fellow friend go here I though we go check out (: I'm still kicking about doing the odd explore, I haven't seen this one on the site So just out the blue we thought we drive up to Ashford for the afternoon, and check out the Ashford testing site, have to say getting in prob...

Back in November of 2017, I stumbled across this concrete structure which at the time I thought it may have been used for water storage, but recently found a old report mentioning that it was a tank testing area, so I decided to travel to the location and take some photos on 23/6/19 Here are my...

The 1950s saw the construction of specialized facilities to exploit new post-war technologies such as nuclear power. AWRE was one of only a few sites in the UK, and indeed the world, where purpose-built facilities were created for testing the components of nuclear weapons ans as i was going for...

Bit of an old one this, it's not been posted up for a while so maybe it's gone now or locked down. A long while ago I visited the remains of the 8x8 Wind Tunnel Testing Site but for some reason or another we ended up completely missing one of the smaller buildings, namely the 3 x 3 wind tunnel...

A couple of months ago i got a message from Els saying about a site he had found which had mint control rooms and looked really interesting from a film site's pictures. We had a talk about it and just left it at that. Then one week he messaged me saying fancy cracking it so off we went. The...

A few years back I was looking at one of those film location web sites and came across some weird industrial complex that looked a fair bit like Pyestock. It was listed as “An industrial location 30 miles outside London”. I had no idea where it was or about its past history but it sure as hell...

Visited yesterday with TrufflePig on the last day of my IoW weekender. HighDown Rocket Testing Site was built on the site of the Needles Old Battery on the east coast of the Isle of Wight, It was built for rocket research as they wanted to make flameless (and thus more covert) rockets. Alot...