Well this one got fucked pretty quickly. Within a week of me first setting foot inside secca and police were all over it and signs up warning 'urban explorers' to keep out. I could slap whoever it was that was stupid enough to describe themselves as that when they got busted.
I'd done a few recce trips up here in the middle of the night and had the place sussed out. I just hadn't made the effort as I didn't have high hopes for it. At the tail end of a week with no plans for the weekend I text prettyvacant71 to see if she fancied a wander around here and she was up for it. We met up before sunrise and she helped me in via a pretty awkward access point, I had a quick scout and was happy there were nothing to worry about inside, then held my breath as I opened a fire escape expecting alarms to go off... silence! Right fuck this lets grab a coffee.
After a caffeine boost we had a wander around and started getting our shots, the early morning light was lovely in the labs. I then gave @Grom the heads up we were in and he later joined us. A nice chilled out day, and it sounds like we were the only ones to have such an easy time there!
History blagged from Grom's report:
Since being Founded in 1919, Leatherhead Research has been working with food companies to research into many aspects of food products including Quality & safety, regulatory, nutrition, product development and sensory & consumer insight to the food and beverage sector.
Their wide range of work ranges from simple consumer testing and sampling to volunteers, to laboratory testing in near clean room conditions.
The Leatherhead research company was acquired by Science Group in September of 2015 and only two months later in November it was announced that they were moving to a new site just outside Epsom.
The now disused site in Leatherhead has been empty since early 2016 and is awaiting re-development, with all the usual talk of it being flattened and turned into housing.
Thanks for looking!
I'd done a few recce trips up here in the middle of the night and had the place sussed out. I just hadn't made the effort as I didn't have high hopes for it. At the tail end of a week with no plans for the weekend I text prettyvacant71 to see if she fancied a wander around here and she was up for it. We met up before sunrise and she helped me in via a pretty awkward access point, I had a quick scout and was happy there were nothing to worry about inside, then held my breath as I opened a fire escape expecting alarms to go off... silence! Right fuck this lets grab a coffee.
After a caffeine boost we had a wander around and started getting our shots, the early morning light was lovely in the labs. I then gave @Grom the heads up we were in and he later joined us. A nice chilled out day, and it sounds like we were the only ones to have such an easy time there!
History blagged from Grom's report:
Since being Founded in 1919, Leatherhead Research has been working with food companies to research into many aspects of food products including Quality & safety, regulatory, nutrition, product development and sensory & consumer insight to the food and beverage sector.
Their wide range of work ranges from simple consumer testing and sampling to volunteers, to laboratory testing in near clean room conditions.
The Leatherhead research company was acquired by Science Group in September of 2015 and only two months later in November it was announced that they were moving to a new site just outside Epsom.
The now disused site in Leatherhead has been empty since early 2016 and is awaiting re-development, with all the usual talk of it being flattened and turned into housing.
Thanks for looking!
Great pics by the way and I just wish I had big enough balls to try a place like that!
