I've been meaning to get myself down to here for a while now, glad I finally did as it's a great mooch, but a total maze!
History
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.
The Explore
I can't take too much credit for this as @Brewtal and Prettyvacent71 did most the legwork of researching our way into here. However what I thought would be a nice short easy morning mooch turned out to be almost 4 hours of navigating a confusing maze of corridors, labs and offices. The site is pretty large, and although it's been quite stripped out, still made for a brilliant explore as It's very clean, with barely a sign of vandalism to be seen.
I've been struggling a bit recently with local explores, so was very glad to finally get sometime decent done!
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History
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.
The Explore
I can't take too much credit for this as @Brewtal and Prettyvacent71 did most the legwork of researching our way into here. However what I thought would be a nice short easy morning mooch turned out to be almost 4 hours of navigating a confusing maze of corridors, labs and offices. The site is pretty large, and although it's been quite stripped out, still made for a brilliant explore as It's very clean, with barely a sign of vandalism to be seen.
I've been struggling a bit recently with local explores, so was very glad to finally get sometime decent done!
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