borstal

The history of this place is a little difficult to ascertain as the Lisnevin Training School appears to have moved premises. The first school opened in October 1973, at a premises known as Kiltonga House near Newtownards. It then moved to Bangor, before moving again to this site at Millisle in...

Decaying But Not Forgotten Institutionalized Solitude Situated not far from the rather sleepy seaside town of Millisle in Co. Down, a place seemingly so normal at first glance, a grand yet empty white building one of exquisite architecture known as "Woburn House" built in the 1800s owned by...

St Peters Orphanage - originally built in 1899, once a orphanage, transformed to a borstal and then a care home. the place closed its doors in 1998 and has been left to rot since. Abit of an old explore but definitely one worth writing about. I was lucky enough to visit this place about a...

This very burnt building was orginally built in the 1880's. The building was linked to the Citadel Prison. The Bortsal Club was opened on 30th November 1956 by Lady Fox. The prison officers of the Citadel, used this building as a social club. The canteen of which the prison officers ate was...

History: St Matthew’s was a voluntary controlled Church of England school, and therefore part of the land, and all of the permanent buildings are owned by the dia-sus. The Church of England’s Director of Education had given an undertaking to the Council that the proceeds from sale of the school...

External reccie complete only 8 x heads away from entry; was there an hour on way out security arrived so probs cctv still working;  Found some graffitti carved in the brickwork by some of those incarcerated hope to be in next week

This place is not too far from where I live. i have heard all about it's history and decided to have a look inside and get some photos of the building itself. The place is an absolute death trap, ceiling's fallen through, water ingress all over etc. It started early life in 1900 as a roman...

Seen this one a lot as I drive past it all the time however, I got the chance to stop and have a look around. Talk about dangerous buildings, this was a death trap! Floors caving in, wires hanging was like a horror movie setup! Here are the photos, enjoy!

This is a reasonably large site (43 acres) with numerous buildings (27 residential, a school building, outbuildings and Woburn House). Woburn House was once a private summer mansion to John Gilmore Dunbar, a wealthy Belfast mill owner. The 1800 Italianate, B2 listed property, remained in the...

really enjoyed this explore, the building is in a really bad way with the staircases collapsing and pulling the exterior walls with them. Sad-fully there has been plenty of fires set here and has completely destroyed everything. for more pictures of this explore and others feel free to check our...

Fort Borstal was built 1875 - 1883 using convict labour frrom the nearby prison.It formed part of the outer ring of defences protecting Chatham Dockyard. As with the other forts in the ring it is largely constructed of concrete, polygonal in shape and surrounded by a deep ditch part of which is...

Eastmoor School - May 2013 Evening folks, not done a report for a few months, so I thought I'd pop this one up of our recent explore of Eastmoor Secure Unit, Leeds. Quite a nice, chilled out explore this one, and a bit to see even though the place is pretty trashed! As this is quite a well...