Visit 1:
Wasn't too sure what to expect at this place, it was nothing like i'd been in before. I had seen reports from it but had no idea of the layout, I like to know my way around before going in normally! Luckily Flasher had been before, and was armed with maps and bubblehead on speed dial.
Due to its location, it hadn't been attacked by pikeys or chavs. There was damage to the building, but it was from the demo crews who were slowly tearing the place apart. In the office sections there were piles of rubble and other debris were collected in lobby areas.
Nothing to show where we were until, we found a perspex map of the region up on the wall. Sadly it had been damaged.
It didn't take long for me to loose my bearings, a lot of the corridoors looked the same, and with no windows I couldn't even work out which side of the building we were at. We headed into the news studio. The acoustics were different in that room, deadened. There were banks of cables running up the walls, and round the edges were junction boxes with various connectors, lights and buttons on them. I went through into the control room of the studio, onto the other side of the tinted glass. Bits of equipment scattered around the room, huge cable runs coming up out the floor and what looked the remains of a very large rack collapsed on the floor. No equipment in it, just the patch panels and all the cabling.
A Brief trip up to the roof, saw some massive aerials up there - kinda useful for a television studio. Quick look round the ham radio shed that's up there and then back down again.