Been pondering whether to bother posting this report, but thought i'd share it anyway, some might find it interesting!
This little'ish primary school opened in 1873 with a considerable contribution from a local business man who donated £1400 towards the construction. As the population grew in...
A superb place.. It is a school and features beautiful gardens, ruined church, derelict labs, art classroom, an old manor house, amphitheatre, canteen, swimming pool, music room. e.t.c It's got a lot!
I have been here many times now,(without permission haha) and have shot it professionally for...
Another one from our trip down South.
More goodness revealed by SK!
Here's some history.
In 1864, Fr Herbert Vaughan, the later Cardinal Vaughan, gained approval to build a missionary seminary in England. On the 28th February 1871, after considerable difficulties had been overcome, the new...
Right people, it's back to school for you lot! luckily for the guy's it's a girls school!! :D
The school was designed by J. M. Bottomley and G. T. Wellburn of Leeds and built in 1910. It was built in an Edwardian Baroque style, in an English cross bond utilising red brick and with white...
Moving on from my previous post here's another school :)
Following the 1870 Education Act, the newly elected Sheffield School Board constructed 39 new schools in the city. Pye Bank School being one of them, designed by the architects Innocent and Brown and constructed in the 'English domestic...
Okay, here we go with my first post here, hope its okay and will get round to posting more, let me know if i've missed something bit rusty at this. :D
The School was opened in August 1857, it was designed by Decimus Burton, famous for building parts of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and...
An old classic but well worth a look in but beware of the floors, oh and the falling masonry
Splored with SK, Tommo and Klempner
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Lillesden School for Girls occupies what used to be the Lillesden Estate Mansion, built at the estate (south of Hawkhurst)...
After visiting this place on various occasional visits school parent evenings ,sports day and the odd time my son had rebelled :) it was finally time to have an explore round at my own leisure :grin: the school is due to be pulled down in two weeks allegedly to make way for another...
This building was up until 1998 The Holy Cross Roman Catholic school a voluntary aided school for boys and girls.
It closed its doors in 1998 and about a year later Hereson school for boys took over the premises and there very old school along with its ww2 shelter was demolished to make way for...
The school started as Westbrook House School Shorncliffe Road in about 1947 as a boys only preparatory school under the headmastership of Kenneth Foster.
Without doubt the best prep school for boys in Folkestone. In the 1970's it became Dover College Junior School, before returning to Westbrook...
Westbrook House was a Preparatory School based in folkestone for 2-11 year olds. It was established on the site in Folkestone after the second world war by K.N.G. Foster, and existed in one form or other right up until 2008 when it closed its doors with just 119 pupils on role - it's capacity...
History of this place has been covered many times all over the internet. The school occupies what used to be the Lillesden Estate Mansion, built at the estate (south of Hawkhurst) in 1855 by the banker Edward Loyd, who moved there after marrying. The house and estate remained in the family until...
The school occupies what used to be the Lillesden Estate Mansion, built at the estate (south of Hawkhurst) in 1855 by the banker Edward Loyd, who moved there after marrying. The house and estate remained in the family until just after the First World War, when it was then sold and eventually...
Right this is local to me so after a call from Space invader saying did i fancy a drive round off we went..As the last person who posted pointed out we just cant find any history on the place..plenty for the Deaf school which is still in use just none for the chapel which..well isnt in use!
So...
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...
This all started with a text message from Obscurity/Desertion on Thursday about a new explore we'd recced a couple of weeks before. So at midnight on Friday night, Obscurity, Frosty and Fat James roll up at my house and before we know it it's 2:30am. I'm still not sure who suggested it first...