This was an interesting one, and very big 
Explored with The Shepshed Diamond Back.
It has a lot of character this place, but unfortunately now quite trashed with little time
on its side, with the new housing estate next to it forever growing.
Its sad to think that a place with such history can be demolished without
anyone batting an eye lid
History
Hidden away lies a key element of history, Frank Whittle's Factory is where jet engines were
developed. Dedicating to this workers were woken up at 8am by an air raid siren,
this continued up until 2002.
Sir Frank Whittle was a British Royal Air Force Engineer Air Officer, and he invented the
turbojet engine. Frank Whittle had the backing of the Air Ministry, and so he also had two retired
RAF servicemen to assist him set up Power Jets Ltd to build the engine itself.
The engine – a W2/500 – was one of only five built by Whittle in the 1940s.
The factory later on employed more than 4,000 workers as it became The English Electric Company (Later GEC), made in the 1960's and 70's it was part of several Nuclear power stations. In order to sustain the
factory hundreds of apprentices were trained each year, and those 4,000 workers had been
shipped from Middlesex due to the shortage of labour. The computer performance measurement called the
'whetstone' was developed by English Electric at the factory, and takes its name from the town itself.
An industrial rental site surrounds the factory along with housing development, and Babcock Services, ITP Engines Ltd and Converteam occupy and maintain the site.
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Thanks for looking : )
Explored with The Shepshed Diamond Back.
It has a lot of character this place, but unfortunately now quite trashed with little time
on its side, with the new housing estate next to it forever growing.
Its sad to think that a place with such history can be demolished without
anyone batting an eye lid
History
Hidden away lies a key element of history, Frank Whittle's Factory is where jet engines were
developed. Dedicating to this workers were woken up at 8am by an air raid siren,
this continued up until 2002.
Sir Frank Whittle was a British Royal Air Force Engineer Air Officer, and he invented the
turbojet engine. Frank Whittle had the backing of the Air Ministry, and so he also had two retired
RAF servicemen to assist him set up Power Jets Ltd to build the engine itself.
The engine – a W2/500 – was one of only five built by Whittle in the 1940s.
The factory later on employed more than 4,000 workers as it became The English Electric Company (Later GEC), made in the 1960's and 70's it was part of several Nuclear power stations. In order to sustain the
factory hundreds of apprentices were trained each year, and those 4,000 workers had been
shipped from Middlesex due to the shortage of labour. The computer performance measurement called the
'whetstone' was developed by English Electric at the factory, and takes its name from the town itself.
An industrial rental site surrounds the factory along with housing development, and Babcock Services, ITP Engines Ltd and Converteam occupy and maintain the site.
Thanks for looking : )
The place is completely fucked now 
