Gloscat College, Gloucester - March 2011

Went here with DHL and VW! Had a great day! Unfortunately I think we missed this place at its best. A little history:

The Gloucestershire College of Art and Technology, known as Gloscat was originally located on Brunswick Road. It was actually on two sites, with the main site on the north-west of Brunswick Road and the media site on the south-east side, opposite the library.

The front part of the Gloscat building was built between 1938 and 1941 in an art deco style. Today it is in a sad state of decay as in 2007 Gloscat moved to a modern new building on the docks. The Brunswick campus (both sites) is now part of the Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Project's (GHURC) Greyfriars redevelopment.

A major feature of the modern site is a much unloved nine-storey tower block to the rear of the original college building. This was built in 1974, a time when scant regard was paid to whether new buildings were sympathetic to their surroundings.
History courtesy of http://www.darrelkirby.com/storyofgloucester/extra_sites/gloscat.htm

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Gloscat's Redwood Tree under threat





















Views from the tower:










The site is huge and unfortunately we didnt get time to see everything. The rest of the images from the day are here

Good photos, but what the hell has happened to the door at the front entrance? It was there in December?

I like the photo of the enclosed redwood tree by the way.

Lady Grey said:

Good photos, but what the hell has happened to the door at the front entrance? It was there in December?

I like the photo of the enclosed redwood tree by the way.

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Im not sure what happened to the door, I was hoping to see that as it looked really nice. They are having a lot of trouble with kids and pikeys, so I assumed they have done it to prevent that. We bumped into some dodgy people when we were in there

Had my eye on this for a while now - just not been active enough lately - need to get out again.
Good to see inside though - nice pics

An interesting day by the look of it. All that equipment going to waste. Criminal

Yeah its a good explore, although slightly trashed in places. We only had about 3 hours but the place is massive if anyone gets the chance to have a look!

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=sn...loucester&q=greyfriars gloucester&FORM=LMLTCC

Nice photos, it looks like theres plenty left inside to see and not over chaved!!!

Good shots.

Looks like there's still some interesting bits to see.

Thanks

i missssssssssssssssss youuuuuuuuuu and i mis exploring done nothing this year and you keep seeing good places dam you.

burb147 said:

i missssssssssssssssss youuuuuuuuuu and i mis exploring done nothing this year and you keep seeing good places dam you.

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You need to find a baby sitter lol!!