Visited yesterday, a nice easy place to get to and the place is huge and very much like a maze. There’s not a great deal of items left behind unless you go into the huts outside that seem to have become a dumping ground for all sorts of things that you wouldn’t expect to find there.
Mooched around for a bit grabbing pics, who knew I would be spoilt with so many long corridors and the wheelchair in one was just great, except the photo came out pretty bad lol. After a look at the outside hut things we went back in and we’re on the top floor and hear someone outside then a while later the door on this floor open and male voices and stomping. thought it was security or something so we cowered in the corner of a room until they went. as we moved on they suddenly came back (door at the end was blocked we discovered), thought they were explorers, rude ones not acknowledging us they went off another way and then started smashing thingsup.
we decided to quit our explore and get out quick except the door was blocked so had to go back. as we were walking away all we could hear was glass etc being smashed sounded like they had a hammer. we saw 2 but there might have been others.
not had to deal with anything like this beforehand so quite scary and needed to get out quick.
HistoryThe Fernhurst Research Station was a plant protection (weed killer) research institute in West Sussex, mainly run by ICI, for the fruit industry.
Plant Protection Limited moved to this site in 1945 and opened a research institute on the estate of Sir Felix Schuster(1854-1936). The research institute was to investigate pest and disease control, and was also known as a horticultural research station. In June 1951 an international conference, with scientists from 39 countries, took place at the site on food scarcity. On 10 May 1955, the site was visited by the Duke of Edinburgh. Another international conference took place at the site in June 1956.
ICI Plant Protection had its international headquarters at the site in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1986 a new international conference centre was opened on the site by the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. ICI Public Health was formed in 1989 and situated at the site.
In April 1990, the site won a Queen's Award for Technological Achievement for herbicides, fungicides and pesticides.
It became part of Zeneca in 1994.
It became part of Syngenta. It became the headquarters of Syngenta Europe Ltd. Syngenta left the site in December 2001
Mooched around for a bit grabbing pics, who knew I would be spoilt with so many long corridors and the wheelchair in one was just great, except the photo came out pretty bad lol. After a look at the outside hut things we went back in and we’re on the top floor and hear someone outside then a while later the door on this floor open and male voices and stomping. thought it was security or something so we cowered in the corner of a room until they went. as we moved on they suddenly came back (door at the end was blocked we discovered), thought they were explorers, rude ones not acknowledging us they went off another way and then started smashing thingsup.
we decided to quit our explore and get out quick except the door was blocked so had to go back. as we were walking away all we could hear was glass etc being smashed sounded like they had a hammer. we saw 2 but there might have been others.
not had to deal with anything like this beforehand so quite scary and needed to get out quick.
HistoryThe Fernhurst Research Station was a plant protection (weed killer) research institute in West Sussex, mainly run by ICI, for the fruit industry.
Plant Protection Limited moved to this site in 1945 and opened a research institute on the estate of Sir Felix Schuster(1854-1936). The research institute was to investigate pest and disease control, and was also known as a horticultural research station. In June 1951 an international conference, with scientists from 39 countries, took place at the site on food scarcity. On 10 May 1955, the site was visited by the Duke of Edinburgh. Another international conference took place at the site in June 1956.
ICI Plant Protection had its international headquarters at the site in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1986 a new international conference centre was opened on the site by the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. ICI Public Health was formed in 1989 and situated at the site.
In April 1990, the site won a Queen's Award for Technological Achievement for herbicides, fungicides and pesticides.
It became part of Zeneca in 1994.
It became part of Syngenta. It became the headquarters of Syngenta Europe Ltd. Syngenta left the site in December 2001
Regardless hope you enjoyed!
