www.citadelmonkey-urbex.com Pyestock NGTE

Pyestock National Gas
Turbine Establishment

For well over sixty
years, Pyestock NGTE
was home to the
designers and engineers
who created, developed
and tested gas turbine
engines. This was the
place where the jet era
began in earnest and
where the engines for
the Vulcan bomber and
Concorde were put
through their paces.
From the start of the cold
war through to the 1970s,
it was the largest site of
its type in the world.

Pyestock also tested
almost every other jet
engine that was
developed in the UK as
well as the gas turbines
which were installed in
all the Royal Navy's
vessels.

As improvements in gas
turbine development
advanced, and computer
simulations took over,
work at Pyestock was
gradually run down.
Eurofighter was the last
project at the site and
the site finally closed in
the Spring of 2002. It now
stands derelict and
abandoned.

Plans are currently afoot
for the area to be turned
into a vast distribution
centre for the
supermarket giant Tesco
but local opposition is
strong and it is hoped
that a preservation order
of some kind will be
placed on Pyestock.