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Explore #201: Rooftop CW, London -April 2017

January 4, 2018

High Stuff, Industrial & Commercial Sites, United Kingdom

After our brief stopover at a military vehicles graveyard James, Jade and I met up with some other friends for a night of rooftopping down in London… Our Explore It had been quite some time since I’d been out rooftopping, and this proved to be a very enjoyable and adrenaline-filled explore – not to mention physically exhausting! Our target was a huge 60-storey tower block, deep in the heart of London’s business district. Accessing such a site wasn’t easy given…

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Explore #187: Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge – June 2016

July 4, 2017

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Industrial & Commercial Sites, Recommended Reports - some selected highlights, United Kingdom

History The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory(MRAO) is home to a number of large aperture synthesis radio telescopes, including the One-Mile Telescope, 5-km Ryle Telescope, and the Arcminute Micro kelvin Imager. Radio interferometry started in the mid-1940s on the outskirts of Cambridge, and with funding from the Science Research Council and a donation of £100,000 from Mullard Limited, construction of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory was completed and opened by Sir Edward Victor Appleton on 25 July 1957. The site is…

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Explore #186: King’s Hall Cinema and Methodist Church, Southall, London – June 2016

July 1, 2017

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Churches and religious, United Kingdom

After our nocturnal adventures rooftopping in central London, we headed to Southall to explore this beautiful derelict church… unfortunately I only managed to take one shot before things went rather wrong! History (rewritten from here) The 3-storey King’s Hall was built in 1916 with a stone and brick facade, designed by architect Sir Alfred Gelder of Hull. It was operated by the Uxbridge and Southall Wesleyan Mission, and screened religious films. By 1926 it was operating as a regular cinema,…