This was another milestone explore for me as my 18 and 15 year old sons came with me on their first Urbex ;)
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 employees sports and social club
This is their employees sports and social club
Amazing. I live in Harlow and pictures of the old industry here are very poignant, and pics like this of where the people used to gather. When there were jobs and prosperity and hope...
ReplyDeleteWow.... proper blast from the past this! My Dad worked at STL and Nortel for 25 years until about 2002. I spent many happy hours playing tennis, pool, snooker and darts here. Plus the local U-18's disco was held at BNR once a month! Great times, thanks for the post :-)
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