First ever report! Here goes....
Just so happened to be visiting a friend who works in Hawkhurst and passed this place and had to have a quick look round.
I first walked round the side to the main doors and couldn't believe the amount of land spanning out in front of the building. I didn't venture beyond the main doors towards the green porta-cabin style classroom, but from the road it looked like there was more to explore. The place seemed empty, we were parked out by the main road at the back of the building and saw no one, didn't venture out into the grounds or up the massive drive way I'm assuming leads to the road somewhere. It was clear from bottles and burnt grass that it'd be visited fairly recently, that and the bizarre but arty builders helmet on a pole with a VHS player wrapped around it (didn't get a pix grrr!).
After a quick look at the front I walked back round to the road and had a look in the red gated yard where the clock tower is. Judging by the piles of crap people had been stripping the place as it was obviously placed outside fairly recently, that or fly tipping but a lot of it was books, papers and other school type things.
The only boarded window to be disturbed was in the yard and you could just about see inside but I didn't have time to look for entry points. I'm assuming there's some sort of underground tunnel or basement as there were steps leading to a door below the unboarded window but it looked far too creepy and unsafe!
Sorry the pics are a bit crap but only had my phone to hand!
Main doors round the front.
The front again.
Beautiful old door, I try to flip it over but it weighed a friggin ton
Part of the burnt outbuilding taken from the side looking into the courtyard.
Directly to the right of the above shot was this toilet full of burnt roof.
Entering the yard from the gate
Taken from the gate, the steps going down below the exposed window are just behind the red gas bottle
Directly below the window, the steps leading down under the ground floor
There's more pics, of varying quality here
http://s1306.photobucket.com/albums/s574/mardy_bum87/Lillesden - March 2013 (you have to copy and paste the whole thing including the gaps, bloody photobucket!)
And a brief history of the place here http://www.doctorwholocations.net/locations/lillesdenschool
Babies Castle report to follow.
Just so happened to be visiting a friend who works in Hawkhurst and passed this place and had to have a quick look round.
I first walked round the side to the main doors and couldn't believe the amount of land spanning out in front of the building. I didn't venture beyond the main doors towards the green porta-cabin style classroom, but from the road it looked like there was more to explore. The place seemed empty, we were parked out by the main road at the back of the building and saw no one, didn't venture out into the grounds or up the massive drive way I'm assuming leads to the road somewhere. It was clear from bottles and burnt grass that it'd be visited fairly recently, that and the bizarre but arty builders helmet on a pole with a VHS player wrapped around it (didn't get a pix grrr!).
After a quick look at the front I walked back round to the road and had a look in the red gated yard where the clock tower is. Judging by the piles of crap people had been stripping the place as it was obviously placed outside fairly recently, that or fly tipping but a lot of it was books, papers and other school type things.
The only boarded window to be disturbed was in the yard and you could just about see inside but I didn't have time to look for entry points. I'm assuming there's some sort of underground tunnel or basement as there were steps leading to a door below the unboarded window but it looked far too creepy and unsafe!
Sorry the pics are a bit crap but only had my phone to hand!
Main doors round the front.
The front again.
Beautiful old door, I try to flip it over but it weighed a friggin ton
Part of the burnt outbuilding taken from the side looking into the courtyard.
Directly to the right of the above shot was this toilet full of burnt roof.
Entering the yard from the gate
Taken from the gate, the steps going down below the exposed window are just behind the red gas bottle
Directly below the window, the steps leading down under the ground floor
There's more pics, of varying quality here
http://s1306.photobucket.com/albums/s574/mardy_bum87/Lillesden - March 2013 (you have to copy and paste the whole thing including the gaps, bloody photobucket!)
And a brief history of the place here http://www.doctorwholocations.net/locations/lillesdenschool
Babies Castle report to follow.
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