Secondary school, Highlands

Visited with Lost and Zimbob!

Real ace place! The academy is a 30's art-deco style school that over the years has seen loads of kids come and go, including a few of my pals from my uni course. Now though, it has a swanky new replacement sitting just opposite in the playing fields, and now the original school is getting demolished.

It's a big place, a lot bigger than I expected. Due to extreme exposedness round the outside and also the fact demolition folk stayed a lot longer than we'd hoped, it was hard to stay discrete and with the usual curtain twitchers out on force, it was quite tough. Once in, we were immediately faced with police / security walking up the path, so it was a 15 minute sit down in the bushes, before finally getting in to the school! :thumb

pictures...
science lab


fume cupboard with chemicals in it


science lecture theatre




coat area








the main hall from the projector room


in the kitchens


the assembly hall


photos in the entrance hall






staff photo


business management














mr harris!


inside the darkroom for photography


another games hall


changing rooms


typical...



Thanks to Zimbob for all his help!

Nice work Ali, it would have been a lot less tense an explore if we hadn't nearly bumped into those security/police-looking bods.

Very good condition place. Groovy.

lost said:

Nice work Ali, it would have been a lot less tense an explore if we hadn't nearly bumped into those security/police-looking bods.

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Indeed

Well spotted though

Pics are looking good!

Really great report, I find these pictures very eerie. A building that should be full of life to be so quiet and still, doesn't seem right.

Thanks for posting. Will email this link to Lifeline, will love this.

crumbler said:

Really great report, I find these pictures very eerie. A building that should be full of life to be so quiet and still, doesn't seem right.

Thanks for posting. Will email this link to Lifeline, will love this.

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If you like this place, there's more of it here :

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=6207&highlight=secondary

And here :

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=6211&highlight=secondary

A trifle 'pic-heavy' .....

They had a darkroom? Lucky gits.

Any idea why there's a wine glass in the hall?

huggles said:

Any idea why there's a wine glass in the hall?

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There were 3 lids from beer kegs there too, and the remains of a crate of Miller......

really nice pics

zimbob said:

There were 3 lids from beer kegs there too, and the remains of a crate of Miller......

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Staff leaving party!!

huggles said:

They had a darkroom? Lucky gits.

Any idea why there's a wine glass in the hall?

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Yeah I noticed the enlarger too! Lucky sods, there was nowt like that at my school!

Very interesting place to report on, and well done for sticking with it even under the threat of the law, hardcore!

I like it interesting place