First off this one kind of straddles industry and military which is a little odd for deciding where to put it, so I put it here.
I'll be honest, I thought this location was already demolished. Thankfully I was informed that it wasn't and so a plan was hatched to see somewhere I wish I had seen earlier, were I not convinced it was flattened. I like to have a general idea of what to expect coming into a big explore like this however, short of a couple of details I had no idea how we'd be accessing anything and no clue if much of it would even be accessible at all, which is always fun. As it happens we managed to see probably 3/4s of the buildings - only the large grey modern one and one of the sprawling single storey blocks plus an office building or two evaded us in the end. The highlights must be the huge building full of old labs and equipment and all sorts, plus the fully complete mock up R3 ROTOR bunker located in one of the buildings. The bunker was the final building we got into, finishing on a high as such.
In 2011 QinetiQ closed the south part of the south site and consolidated their facilities in a smaller area to the north. There are current development plans in place for new housing on this area and a field adjacent to the land for hundreds of houses.
There is a huge amount of pretty impressive history associated with this location and the people who worked there however it would run to many many paragraphs so I won't go into it here.
I also have a family connection to this place - I have a lot of family in the Malvern Hills area and it turned out an uncle of mine, who sadly passed away when I was a baby, spent his whole working life at the RRE.
I didn't get a chance to take many external photos, I had planned on doing some proper ones at the end but by the time we finished we were so hungry we just buggered off. I did snap a couple on my phone as we walked around but it's a struggle to show just how massive this place is as it's all on a hill. I utterly hated the lighting in here for the most part and really struggled photography-wise.
Thanks for looking
I'll be honest, I thought this location was already demolished. Thankfully I was informed that it wasn't and so a plan was hatched to see somewhere I wish I had seen earlier, were I not convinced it was flattened. I like to have a general idea of what to expect coming into a big explore like this however, short of a couple of details I had no idea how we'd be accessing anything and no clue if much of it would even be accessible at all, which is always fun. As it happens we managed to see probably 3/4s of the buildings - only the large grey modern one and one of the sprawling single storey blocks plus an office building or two evaded us in the end. The highlights must be the huge building full of old labs and equipment and all sorts, plus the fully complete mock up R3 ROTOR bunker located in one of the buildings. The bunker was the final building we got into, finishing on a high as such.
In 2011 QinetiQ closed the south part of the south site and consolidated their facilities in a smaller area to the north. There are current development plans in place for new housing on this area and a field adjacent to the land for hundreds of houses.
There is a huge amount of pretty impressive history associated with this location and the people who worked there however it would run to many many paragraphs so I won't go into it here.
I also have a family connection to this place - I have a lot of family in the Malvern Hills area and it turned out an uncle of mine, who sadly passed away when I was a baby, spent his whole working life at the RRE.
I didn't get a chance to take many external photos, I had planned on doing some proper ones at the end but by the time we finished we were so hungry we just buggered off. I did snap a couple on my phone as we walked around but it's a struggle to show just how massive this place is as it's all on a hill. I utterly hated the lighting in here for the most part and really struggled photography-wise.
Thanks for looking
