Seaton Heights Hotel - Dec 08

[Foxylady]

The comms towers belong to Orange and 3 according to current records............ great post Foxy!

Blimey, how did you find that out? Cheers, holymole.

 

[miss survey]

This looks like the place that Bicton College used to house some of their students in 1994/6!

 

[Foxylady]

This looks like the place that Bicton College used to house some of their students in 1996/7!

They did! You're right...I'd forgotten about that. I once knew or met someone who was billeted there round about then.
Do you know Bicton College, Miss S?

 

[miss survey]

Our son was there 1994-6 doing BTec Outdoor Leisure!

 

[kite flyer]

It's obvious that my son is a bit of a Jonah. He's lived both here and at Haddon Hall in Buxton, which has been derelict since he left, and has just been burned.

 

[Foxylady]

Our son was there 1994-6 doing BTec Outdoor Leisure!

Oh, excellent. I've only been around Bicton College once, with some friends, as I don't drive and there's no public transport there...which is a shame as it's a lovely place, and there's a church ruin there that I'd love to have a look at.

It's obvious that my son is a bit of a Jonah. He's lived both here and at Haddon Hall in Buxton, which has been derelict since he left, and has just been burned.

 

[OSPA]

I know this is an old thread, but I just came aross it and I have to say it looks amazing! Is it still around?

 

[Foxylady]

Cheers, OSPA. It's still there, AFAIK. The last time I saw it was last November, going past on a bus, and I haven't heard any different.
It's a great place for a good leisurely wander, and lots of nooks and crannies still to be looked into.
Oddly enough, I've only just recently started putting the pics up on my website...not all uploaded yet, but there'll be almost 50 when done...and that's not counting those from a previous visit. I'm yearning to make another visit there now!

 

[Monkey Boy]

It's obvious that my son is a bit of a Jonah. He's lived both here and at Haddon Hall in Buxton, which has been derelict since he left, and has just been burned.

[nomedia]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek78wXD5nyA[/nomedia]

Prime redevelopment site I would have thought

 

[leo]

funny looking through this website so many years later and looking at the photos previously and comapring it to now. have explored this place many times with friends in the past 3-4 years on and off. it's amazing to see how clean and how little overgrowth there was before. almost looks salvageable and like with a bit of work it could be opened again. also loved looking at it being scheduled to be demolished knowing that it hasn't been still so many years later. massive shame about the fire as the building held many documents that could have been used to help the history of the place. the place is absolutley wrecked and looks like soon the only remaining things will be the sports hall and the hotel part which may not even stay as the top floor roof is so close to collapsing. anyone with documents or info on the history would be widely appreciated as am trying to make a bit of a timeline.

 

[BikinGlynn]

funny looking through this website so many years later and looking at the photos previously and comapring it to now. have explored this place many times with friends in the past 3-4 years on and off. it's amazing to see how clean and how little overgrowth there was before. almost looks salvageable and like with a bit of work it could be opened again. also loved looking at it being scheduled to be demolished knowing that it hasn't been still so many years later. massive shame about the fire as the building held many documents that could have been used to help the history of the place. the place is absolutley wrecked and looks like soon the only remaining things will be the sports hall and the hotel part which may not even stay as the top floor roof is so close to collapsing. anyone with documents or info on the history would be widely appreciated as am trying to make a bit of a timeline.

Sounds pretty typical, any long standing abandoned places just detiriate to nothingness given time

 

[Hayman]

Oh, excellent. I've only been around Bicton College once, with some friends, as I don't drive and there's no public transport there...which is a shame as it's a lovely place, and there's a church ruin there that I'd love to have a look at.

"has just been burned". If there is one act that is wicked it is arson. Sentences for those caught and convicted are derisory.

 

[Sarah Waldock]

"has just been burned". If there is one act that is wicked it is arson. Sentences for those caught and convicted are derisory.

tempting to throw them on the blaze, isn't it? genuine fire-raisers are mentally ill, but most arson is about insurance or getting rid of inconvenient listed buildings.

 

[Hayman]

tempting to throw them on the blaze, isn't it? genuine fire-raisers are mentally ill, but most arson is about insurance or getting rid of inconvenient listed buildings.

Surely setting fire to a perfectly sound building for insurance or listed buildings reasons also indicates mental abnormality, if not illness. Last Saturday I went to Ringwood's 999 Day in the Hampshire town. I was talking to a fireman about barn fires - usually barns filled with hay which, I know, can spontaneously combust, although there are plenty of examples of such fires being deliberate. He said he had attended barn fires where farmers had asked the fire crews to let the fires burn themselves out. It was cheaper to deal with a completely burned down barn than one half burnt. And that was down to the insurance claims.