I have visited the G E C Alsthom site a few times now, and like other sites i have been back to, it amazed me how much stuff I missed the first time round! There is a maze of rooms, corridors, old office blocks, old engineering buildings and staircases to explore, though if you do go, take a friend or two as i have bumped into young reckless tearaways smashing stuff up and a crack head smoking up in one of the office blocks!!?? quite weird, though expected in this kind of place as its easily accessible. There is also a lot of graffiti tags, some of which are very well done.
It was an engineering site that opened in 1941 that engineered and tested the early jet engines. it was set up by Frank Whittle's company Power Jets ltd, some years after that it became the Atomic Power Division, creating the worlds first commercial scale nuclear reactor, then it turned to G E C Engineering Systems, mainly their mechanical engineering laboratories that went under the name Alsthom. very interesting place indeed. Enjoy.
The back end of the G E C site.
There is two ridiculously deep holes in the floor, going down almost 4 floors!!!!
came back at 12 midnight to light paint this corridor... was quite scary when you are all alone!
Thank you for looking :-)
It was an engineering site that opened in 1941 that engineered and tested the early jet engines. it was set up by Frank Whittle's company Power Jets ltd, some years after that it became the Atomic Power Division, creating the worlds first commercial scale nuclear reactor, then it turned to G E C Engineering Systems, mainly their mechanical engineering laboratories that went under the name Alsthom. very interesting place indeed. Enjoy.
The back end of the G E C site.
There is two ridiculously deep holes in the floor, going down almost 4 floors!!!!
came back at 12 midnight to light paint this corridor... was quite scary when you are all alone!
Thank you for looking :-)
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