Lillesden Girls' Public School, Kent, March 2010 (35mm)

[tom46]

After discarding the light-leaky and slightly out-of-focus ones, here's some of my favourite shots taken at Lillesden on my Praktica film SLR. These are the first shots I've had developed and they're far from perfect (need a wide angle lens!) but I think they have a certain charm...

It sounds like this place was a bit of a supermarket the day we were there, didn't see Chubs or any other urbexers mind, just some people out walking.

Visited with Kent-urbex. The building was originally a stately home, built by a wealthy banker in the 1850s I believe, sold off for use as a school and the closing date seems to have been around 1988. It was also used as a location for Dr Who. On with the pictures:

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Cheers for looking

 

[mr_bones]

Nice work Tom46. Good colours from that camera, shame the upper levels of this place are getting a bit dodgy.

 

[King Al]

Like the sky light and the shot across grounds Its a lovely building that, I wish they would sort the roof out.

Out of interest, how did the pool look?

 

[tom46]

Like the sky light and the shot across grounds Its a lovely building that, I wish they would sort the roof out.

Out of interest, how did the pool look?

Isn't it just, one the nicest I've seen, architecturally speaking.

The pool looks as any outside pool would look normally, except with 20-odd years worth of stagnation In the sun, the pool area is actually really nice. There's still a cover and some floaty bits left over, it's in pretty good shape.

 

[mr_bones]

Out of interest, how did the pool look?

LOL it's not quite warm enough yet!

 

[Pincheck]

really like the pictures even though the sun is out still looks cold

 

[chubs]

nice one mate, we saw acouple people too

 

[lost]

I love photos taken on old 35mm cameras, they have such warmth and depth to them. I just wish I had the patience to footer about with them.