Municipal Secondary School for Girls (Greek Street Annexe)
Visited with @UrbandonedTeam and @huyt.urb
History from HistoricEngland
Built in 1909 as a secondary school, the Greek Street Annexe later became a Girls' Grammar School and finally an annexe of Stockport College. The Grade II listing describes it as "Council secondary school, by Cheers & Smith of Blackburn and Twickenham, consisting of Red brick, stone dressings and banding, terracotta mouldings, Westmoorland graduated slate roofs, red terracotta ridge tiles. Tall brick stacks. Cast-iron railings."
In 1970 the school merged with the Technical School, situated to its immediate east, which subsequently became Stockport College of Further and Higher Education. The two buildings are linked by a modern corridor.
External nabbed from geograph.org.uk
We had seen this posted on YouTube before our visit and it was from the video that we decided to put it on our list with the idea of checking it out when we had a spare afternoon. It was when @Esoteric Eric succeeded that we decided to head back to have a wander around. The building has some nice features alongside working power in the older section of the school and it was worthwhile taking some photos with it being relatively close to us all. The red-brick section is alarmed and they’re practically impossible to miss if you wish to see anything of interest. We watched security walk around inside, turning on and off lights as he completed his checks before heading out undetected.
This lovely, tiled stairwell linked the updated college block to the dated one. It was here we began to encounter the first sensors.
As previously mentioned, the power worked throughout which was an added bonus in addition to the wood panelling lining the corridors and rooms.
It appears that at one point, this hall was much more substantial in size, but the school seems to have put some partitioning in place to better purpose the space.
A shot from above the hall.
We continued upstairs and the rest of the explore consisted of empty but equally intriguing rooms due to the architecture.
Once we had finished here, we quickly made our way over to the modern block which had no security measures. This way we could spend as much time as we wanted looking around if/when security arrived.
A view of the large, modern section that was last used by Stockport College.
The new development linked to the old annexe was stripped and vandalised in points so didn’t take long to get around.
The main entrance.
Corridor.
The gym.
The lecture theatres were surprisingly still intact; all the seats were still in situ.
To finish off we meandered around the expansive roof. Up here there were 3 or 4 separate industrial esque blocks housing multiple fans designed to a bright colour scheme.
Roof shots:
Thanks for looking!
Visited with @UrbandonedTeam and @huyt.urb
History from HistoricEngland
Built in 1909 as a secondary school, the Greek Street Annexe later became a Girls' Grammar School and finally an annexe of Stockport College. The Grade II listing describes it as "Council secondary school, by Cheers & Smith of Blackburn and Twickenham, consisting of Red brick, stone dressings and banding, terracotta mouldings, Westmoorland graduated slate roofs, red terracotta ridge tiles. Tall brick stacks. Cast-iron railings."
In 1970 the school merged with the Technical School, situated to its immediate east, which subsequently became Stockport College of Further and Higher Education. The two buildings are linked by a modern corridor.
External nabbed from geograph.org.uk
We had seen this posted on YouTube before our visit and it was from the video that we decided to put it on our list with the idea of checking it out when we had a spare afternoon. It was when @Esoteric Eric succeeded that we decided to head back to have a wander around. The building has some nice features alongside working power in the older section of the school and it was worthwhile taking some photos with it being relatively close to us all. The red-brick section is alarmed and they’re practically impossible to miss if you wish to see anything of interest. We watched security walk around inside, turning on and off lights as he completed his checks before heading out undetected.
This lovely, tiled stairwell linked the updated college block to the dated one. It was here we began to encounter the first sensors.
As previously mentioned, the power worked throughout which was an added bonus in addition to the wood panelling lining the corridors and rooms.
It appears that at one point, this hall was much more substantial in size, but the school seems to have put some partitioning in place to better purpose the space.
A shot from above the hall.
We continued upstairs and the rest of the explore consisted of empty but equally intriguing rooms due to the architecture.
Once we had finished here, we quickly made our way over to the modern block which had no security measures. This way we could spend as much time as we wanted looking around if/when security arrived.
A view of the large, modern section that was last used by Stockport College.
The new development linked to the old annexe was stripped and vandalised in points so didn’t take long to get around.
The main entrance.
Corridor.
The gym.
The lecture theatres were surprisingly still intact; all the seats were still in situ.
To finish off we meandered around the expansive roof. Up here there were 3 or 4 separate industrial esque blocks housing multiple fans designed to a bright colour scheme.
Roof shots:
Thanks for looking!
