“Children at a preparatory school in Kent have been left without places for September after the school suddenly announced its closure. Parent Sarah Whiten said letters about the closure of Westbrook House Preparatory School in Folkestone, were sent out after the end of term.
The school has blamed a shortage of pupils and financial losses.”
- BBC News, 18th July 2008
“**** The Police are here!” - UrbanX, January 2013
Theres loads of history on this place online so I wont bore you with the details. I’ve seen some reports from Nelly & SK from around June 2011, and it looks like a different place, it’s seriously gone downhill.
The first classroom we came to had a lot of old resources boxed up ready to be moved, but obviously never were.
There were still a lot of piano’s about, I passed at least 4, this one still perfectly in tune!
Attendance register from 1969, note how each childs religious denomination has been written next to their name:
It’s a sign of the times, but coloured children would be marked with a “B” and mixed race children marked with “WB”:
Main hall:
The whole school is accessible bar the chapel, which has been locked down.
We wandered the corridors and classrooms for a while, they were pretty much all stripped, only the odd text book here and there.
But the art room was still quite fun. Vandals had thrown the powder paint about, creating a patchwork of colours on the floor:
I looked out the window to find the police waiting right by our access point. Bugger!
Time to play the waiting game, so I settled down with a few students sketch books and started thumbing through.
Eventually, he got called to something more urgent than us and went away, so we decided to leave right behind him.
The site is on the market for £2m, with permission to build 28 houses. They’re planning on demolishing the whole of the school, including the chapel:
This is the only bit they’re planning to retain:
Cheers for looking.
The school has blamed a shortage of pupils and financial losses.”
- BBC News, 18th July 2008
“**** The Police are here!” - UrbanX, January 2013
Theres loads of history on this place online so I wont bore you with the details. I’ve seen some reports from Nelly & SK from around June 2011, and it looks like a different place, it’s seriously gone downhill.
The first classroom we came to had a lot of old resources boxed up ready to be moved, but obviously never were.
There were still a lot of piano’s about, I passed at least 4, this one still perfectly in tune!
Attendance register from 1969, note how each childs religious denomination has been written next to their name:
It’s a sign of the times, but coloured children would be marked with a “B” and mixed race children marked with “WB”:
Main hall:
The whole school is accessible bar the chapel, which has been locked down.
We wandered the corridors and classrooms for a while, they were pretty much all stripped, only the odd text book here and there.
But the art room was still quite fun. Vandals had thrown the powder paint about, creating a patchwork of colours on the floor:
I looked out the window to find the police waiting right by our access point. Bugger!
Time to play the waiting game, so I settled down with a few students sketch books and started thumbing through.
Eventually, he got called to something more urgent than us and went away, so we decided to leave right behind him.
The site is on the market for £2m, with permission to build 28 houses. They’re planning on demolishing the whole of the school, including the chapel:
This is the only bit they’re planning to retain:
Cheers for looking.
