The White mill Museum Sandwhich june 2011

Right not exactly an explore but i got in my opinion some really nice photographs so i thought i would share!!

Pyestock NGTE June 2011

Right this was the day before my birthday and allegedly the last of the big group trips...9 of us yes nine bowled into this huge compund quite well secured my very well trained ex army ghurkas..with that said we all ran/climbed and hid ..job done

The National Gas Turbine Establishment (NGTE Pyestock) in
Like many companies at this time, the newly merged venture was nationalised, and the search for a suitable site for turbine development began. Pyestock, a former golf course in a secluded wooded spot between Farnborough and Fleet was chosen, as the activities at the NGTE would be top secret and (one presumes) the surrounding woodland would dampen the phenomenal noise. Construction began in 1949, but the site was not as we know it. Instead of the massive test cells there today, testing was done on a much smaller scale in test "cubicles" inside buildings like the Plant House. When the possibility of supersonic jets arose, the site underwent a massive expansion to the north west, with the massive Air House and several huge test cells being built circa 1961.
For over 50 years Pyestock was at the forefront of gas turbine development and was almost certainly the largest site of its kind in the world. V bomber, Harrier and Tornado engines were all rigorously tested on site, the power of the air house allowed Concorde's engines to be tested at 2,000 mph, every single gas turbine installed in the Royal Navy were checked here, captured Soviet engines were discretely examined - and all this on terra firma, without a single plane taking off.
Fleet, part of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), UK 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 Hayne Constant. NGTE spent most of its lifetime as a major testing and development center, both for experimental developments as well as supporting the major commercial engine companies.

last shot me and Space invader having a cigar to celebrate "loving it when a plan comes together"

Eastry Asylum...(whats left of it).. june 2011

Now i visited this site in 2010 around this time of the year,and i didnt get in all the parts that i could have and to be honest id just started with the dslr and my pictures where mainly taken freehand using flash so really not good..

Now this trip with space invader and obscurity i have a better understanding of the Dskr and how to take a better picture..and im on my 3rd dslr  and now use a nikon d90..so sod the history if your interested Google it

Some pics from the day!

Not a bad little mooch about for somewhere thats just so trashed..and a shame its been left to get this way

A little gothic place (so named by obscurity)

No history on this place not much to say and just a few pics from part of a day out with space invader and Obscurity..

Just a few ..there is a few more but no externals cos that would be telling :)