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History The Odeon Cinema in Harlow, designed by T. P. Bennett & Son, was constructed in 1959. It opened on 1st February 1960 and in doing so became the first cinema to be built for the Rank Organisation (a British entertainment conglomerate) after the Second World War. The cinema...

This was my 1st ever explore. Not sure what the history of the building is or anything unfortunately as it was my wife that suggested going here together (she is so romantic lol). I'm sure this has been done soooooo many times by anyone that lives in the area but I'm really pleased at the...

Found a hole in the ground in Harlow!! Local rumors say that there was a Cold War bunker under the town and there is even a small mention on Subbrit "As well as county and county borough controls, counties could establish county sub-controls as a level between the districts and county to...

Parndon Hall is a LIVE non public site and currently houses the Princess Alexandra Hospital medical library for student medical staff, doctors and consultants. _______________________________________________ In the North West corner of the Princess Alexandra Hospital site in Harlow, amongst...

Well, I'm not ACTUALLY grounded, she's just said "Stay near to home, with the new baby and all", so I went back to Nortel AGAIN!!!, but I did do the 50% of this massive site that I missed before!!! Splored with Skeleton Key, UrbanX and Mad Axe Listening Rooms - The triangular...

I had visited this site a week earlier but was thwarted in our attempt to do the roof by a persistent sec in a white van viewtopic.php?t=1877&f=9 So it was a revisit, this time there were four of us, Myself, Skeleton Key, UrbanX and Mad Axe, a great explore rounded off with a nice pint...

Nortel acquired the 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...

Kingsmoor House is a Grade II* listed 18th century coach house with 19th century additions In 2006 planning permission was granted to convert the building into 9 apartments, but this has never happened and now the place is slowly decaying Taken from "The History of Harlow (H.D.C. 1969) It was...

Cold War AA Gun Emplacements Just outside Harlow on the Herts/Essex border sits this Anti Aircraft gun emplacement, this was the second trip out this weekend with the kids and their Grandad :) The site consists of four 3.7 inch AA gun emplacements each with ammunition recesses and integral...

Gilbeys have been making spirits in Harlow since the 1960's at one time all the Malibu in the world was made in Harlow. The company have closed bit by bit over the years and this was their offices in Harlow.

Nortel acquired the 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. This is their...

This is the construction of the NEW Passmores School in Harlow The old Passmores school still sits on a completely different site about 2 miles away. This new school was built on the site of the demolished Brays Grove School, so why didn't they just call the new school Brays Grove? Who knows...

Fancied an explore today, but had so little time. So it was an express 45 minute visit to a site just across town. Hanson Aggregates supplied ready mixed concrete and closed it's gates only last year. Can you guess what's in the secret store???? No site canteen...

Joseph Rank House is the tallest building in Harlow at a height of 151 ft (46m) Once a headquarters for Rank, Hovis Mc Dougal (The bread makers) it is under now construction to turn it into 132 flats This was my first ever roof and I chose the windiest night of the year so far to visit, the...

Have been meaning to go and have a look at these houses for quite a while now and today I could put it off no longer There are 3 derelict houses on this plot of land, Fair Croft and two smaller houses called Little Bays and West View Fair Croft got its name from the site of an annual...

This was the first new cinema to be built by Rank after WW II It opened on 1st February 1960 with the film "Follow A Star" starring Norman wisdom and John Le Mesurier. Designed by T.P.Bennet, it had 1244 seats on a single floor in a sloping stadium style and the projector was suspended above...

Now I do like derelict Cinemas, no idea why but they're always one of my favourite explores and this one was no exception. Visited this with Kent_urbex - cheers for driving, made a nice change :thumb After a couple of other fails, and a rather expensive food stop (don't ask) we decided to...