Nortel Telecommunications - infiltration

So, Nelly and Skeleton Key, had conquered half of this massive complex to make this thread here:
http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=19836&highlight=nortel

Nelly’s done his homework, and give a nice brief history:
“Harlow laboratories, originally Standard Telecommunications Laboratories, in 1991 and continued to use the site for research and development in wireless telecommunication technologies. It was the site of Charles Kao's research in fibre optic communications - Charles Kao was known as "The Godfather of Broadband" and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009.
The inventions and technology invented by Nortel include

1882 manufactures the first telephone switchboard

1922 Invented the vacuum repeater tube without which, long distance telephone calls would not have been possible

2001 Installing the world's first commercial 3G (UMTS) wireless network

Nortel started shedding jobs in 2002 and have now moved out of town.

Half of this massive site is now taken over by various companies that lease floorspace but a huge chunk of it sits derelict” - Nelly

Being proper explorers they wanted to finish the job off and cover the remaining half, they offered me a chance to join them. I already had an explore planned for that day - a good 5 hour drive away. The time slot They gave me was exactly 5 hours after I was due to finish.

It was on.

I had no idea where to go I was just told to drive to Harlow. On the actual day I received a text, merely containing a postcode, and a time so I headed there to meet this “stranger off the internet”.

The postcode turned out to be of the local police station. I knew I was going to love being out with these guys already.

It’s such an epic site, it has everything you need, from basements to rooftops, from the most derelict to freshly-hovered-lights-still-on live bits. I’m going to cover rooftopping in a separate thread, for neatness as the others will hopefully add to this thread, and to me it was a different exploring experience completely.

Looking back at the fence.


The Complex is massive, a lot of it offices, and endless scrummy open corridors:


Always a good idea to know where security is:


Reflection of a large corporate hospitality suite:




Nelly even had time for a sit down:


The remainder of the buildings are generally labs:




Self Portrait:


Obligatory Chair shot:


Obligatory toilet shot, how special are these?


Recording Studio Sound insulation, so funky!




Old Training vid:


Teleportation pod:


We left the part with the lights still on until last as we knew it would be the riskiest area. It started with areas like this, still messy:


Which we followed until the carpets became hoovered and clean. We could hear voices, and we decided this was our queue to leave.



It was lovely to put faces to three online members, and I’d recommend anyone on here to meet with other explorers. My massive thanks to Nelly an SK for getting us in and out in one piece.