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Abbotts Cliff Sound Mirror

Part of the UK Sonic Landscape, these listening stations were used as an acoustic early warning system during the Second World War. Unlike so much of the UK's second...

Bletchley Park Trust

Historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during WWII and birthplace of the modern computer. Currently run as a heritage centre.

Chilbolton Observatory

Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research is one of the worlds most advanced meteorological radar experimental facilities, and is home to the worlds...

Denge Sound Mirror

The acoustic mirrors, known colloquially as 'listening ears', at Denge are located between Greatstone-on-Sea and Lydd airfield, on the banks of a now disused gravel...

Diamond Light Source

The Diamond Synchotron - this is not a building, but a giant machine, called a synchrotron. A synchrotron is a huge scientific machine designed to produce very...

Dungeness Nuclear Power Station

Dungeness A Power Station

Flat Time House- former base of The Office of Experiments

Flat Time House, Former home of John Latham, Peckham , London. (2006 -9 )

The Office of Experiments [OOE] is an experimental institution. It has been...

GCHQ

GCHQ is one of the three UK Intelligence Agencies and a part of the UK's National Intelligence Machinery. GCHQ works in partnership with the Security Service (also...

Greenham Common

Greenham Common airfield was one of several wartime airfields in the Salisbury Plain area and was originally intended for use as an RAF Bomber Command Operational...

Hengistbury Head - Lookout Station
HPA Radiation Protection Division, Chilton

The Health Protection Agency is an independent UK organisation that was set up by the government in 2003 to protect the public from threats to their health from...

John Hansard Gallery

"Dark Places uncovers sites of secrecy and technology across Britain presenting a range of new works by artists that explore spaces and institutions below...

Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker

A cold war bunker museum in-situ organized and maintained by the land owners. When the government established the need for an emergency bunker in the event of a...

NERC Airborne Research & Survey Facility

NERC is the Natural Environment Research Council. The site on a small business park is part of Glouseatershipe Airport, and describes its function in terms of its...

Old Prison - Cotswolds
Oxford Science Park

The Oxford Science Park is a joint venture between Magdalen College, Oxford and Prudential. It is proposed as a centre for innovation and excellence in science...

Pfizer Research Europe

Pfizer Research at Sandwich. This 390–acre site has 2.2 million–square–feet of facility space–the largest pharmaceutical research center outside the U.S. affiliated...

RAF Fairford

RAF Fairford is the European forward operating location for USAF and NATO contingencies and exercises. While the base has no permanently assigned aircraft it's...

Richborough Power Station - Decommissioned

Richborough Power Station was built in the late 50's and from 1962 - 1971 Richborough burned over 3 million tonnes of coal, most of which came from the nearby kent...

Royal Signals Museum Blandford Camp
Samphire Hoe

This stretch of the coast in Kent is the by-product of the most visible public engineering transport infrastructure project to be carried out in recent years. In this...

Swanage Radar Museum

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The Autonomous Researcher Collection

The Mike Kenner Archive

Following research into Dark Places, we met with the extraordinary researcher Mike Kenner. His archive was donated to the Office of...

The Land Systems Reference Centre

The Land Systems Reference Centre (LSRC) is located at Blandford Camp in Dorset. It is a state of the art test and reference facility which conducts interoperability...

Winfrith - formerly Experimental Nuclear Research

Winfrith Science and Technology Park is on the former site of an Experimental Nuclear Facility.

A number of companies are now occupying the site, and some...

Worth Matravers Radar Site

In the early 1990s the Purbeck Radar Museum Trust was formed to raise public awareness of the radar work that went on at Worth Matravers during World War 2. Worth was...