N.G.T.E Pyestock

[Ether]

Yesterday myself Fieldym, Dab and Speed all visted N.G.T.E Pyestock for a bit of exploring, we arrived early and spent the next 9 hours exploring the 108acre ex-jet engine production factory.

Part of the site is still active and Rolls Royce are still developing jet engines it seems, the rest of the site is pretty much inactive.

There is a huge array of machine and buildings to check out, there are about 9 control rooms and a power station.

The site is huge and it definatly needs a few hours, we went to leave and found a whole building we'd not checked out!

Anyway here are some photos from the day.



















I have more pictures if anyone wants to see them, i'm sure some others will post their pictures as well.

This is an amazing site and easily the most interesting i have ever explored!

Ether

 

[Reaperman]

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Thats cool, Some bits I've not seen there. Im glad people are now starting to make time for this place It really is worthwhile.

Any chance of some powerplant photos?

 

[Ether]

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I don't really have anything of the machinery underneath i have a couple shots below i took in the control room but thats about all.

The control room has this great glass section of roof above the desk that just totally finishes off the retro look of the room.

Control Room with Desk


The Glass section of roof


Retro Emergency Phone ?


Thats about all i have in there to be honest, not great pictures. Maybe one of the other guys has some better ones.

 

[krela]

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Myself Bishop and JD went here last may and had a good time, unfortunately I lost most of my photos of it in a disk crash along with most of the photos I took last year.

The only photos I have are the ones I uploaded here shortly after going which are in the gallery.

 

[Reaperman]

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Thats about all i have in there to be honest, not great pictures. Maybe one of the other guys has some better ones.

Another nice control room, As it there werent enough onsite! Were the Boilers / Turbines still in place? I'm sensing a revisit might be on the cards soon.

PS. in your writeup you mention NGTE as a factory, Which isnt strictly accurate as I think it was a testing facility, with the Jet engines being produced elsewhere.

 

[FieldyM]

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This was an enormous site, glad we had a map to guide us!


My pics can be found here....

Pyestock Pictures

Pyestock, Like Woodstock but with more pies!

 

[Dab]

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It was, quite possibly, my best explore to date. Such an amazingly huge place.

Some of my pics can be found here. I've no idea how any of the machines worked, what they are, or anything; so it's a bit vague word-wise. If anyone can enlighten me, please do..

Thanks! Dab

 

[Lightbuoy]

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Fantastic photos Ether!
Amazing to think that so much of it is just standing empty. Looks in pretty good nick too.
Gutted that I couldn't come along with you guys but glad you had a good day of exploring by the looks of it!!

 

[Speed]

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Best explore evar!

 

[chelle]

NGTE Pystock

Visited 2 weeks ago and did most of the site...wont go on about it cos its been done many times already...at my webshots page the album charts the route we took round the site and back via the Sahara building,hope it helps future explorers

this fuse is as big as a housebrick

The airhouse

The stores

The Plane

Second mock plane

What did this do?

More controls

Lost in Space control panels

Busby

Like they just got up and left

For the rest of my huge album click below
http://news.webshots.com/album/558463684SVXXyU

 

[krela]

Nice photos chelle

It's a great site and it has some fantastic heritage

 

[King Al]

Great pictures chelle i've been looking through all your tour and now I am dieing to see the place for my self

 

[Foxylady]

I've seen quite a few pics of this amazing place before but I've never seen any of the mock planes, plus a few other areas that you've documented. Thanks for that, Chelle, I enjoyed seeing those.
Cheers
Foxy

 

[Simon]

It is a truly amazing, world class, unique site.

Don't believe anyone who says they've explored it all. I've made four trips, taken 930 pictures, and I still have a long list of buildings which I still need to set foot in, let alone explore properly.

For example, it's only been in the last couple of weeks that I've seen pictures of the interior of Battle House; and I don't think anyone's been in the Admirality Test Cell yet. (Not that you can tell, because most pictures published don't give any context).

I think I'll need three more trips to cover it all.

Unfortunately there appears to be activity going on. The latest planning application was turned down ealier this year, and a new one has just been submitted. As for the site, a new interior wire-mesh panelled fence has been erected around the buildings. My only conclusions is that this is the redeveloper separating the old buildings from those in use (Sigma and Qinetic) before redevelopment starts.

All the best,
Simon

 

[King Al]

Could some one put this on the location map or or pm me please

I have got to go for a visit!

 

[Lightbuoy]

Excellentay pics Chelle!

As said before by others, it's good to see some pictures from different parts of the place.

Lb

 

[krela]

Could some one put this on the location map or or pm me please

I have got to go for a visit!

Google really is a wonderful thing.

 

[King Al]

I was just wondering… what’s the security like? I mean it looks like a moderately secretive site, the engine testing thing and that, so I figure it must have some really mean fences etc… please pm me if you have any information

 

[krela]

I was just wondering… what’s the security like? I mean it looks like a moderately secretive site, the engine testing thing and that, so I figure it must have some really mean fences etc…

You know the rules, no talking about access on the open forums, keep it to private messages please.

 

[Simon]

If you do visit Pyestock, then be aware that some parts of the site are still in use, and therefore out-of-bounds.

Sigma and Quinetic occupy buildings to the north of the site, whilst another building in the south west corner is still in use.

These buildings are clearly marked on the developer's plans for the site in orange crosshatching:

All the best,
Simon