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History: The German Ruhr valley is widely known for its heavy industry like steel and manufacturing. What laid central in this industry was the availability of coal stored deep underground. Coal mining became a common practice since the beginning of the 1800s, which kickstarted the German...

The historic Sir Gilbert Claughton School Sir Gilbert Claughton School in Dudley was an Upper Standard School that opened in June 1904 for 12 to 18-year-olds. Originally it was called The Dudley Upper Standard School but in 1907 it became the Higher Elementary School and in1929 changed again to...

Originally built in 1904 as a boys boarding school it was taken over in 1948 by the Liverpool School for the Deaf. The name was later changed to the Birkdale School for the Hearing Impared Children. It was eventually closed in 2003 and has been empty since. One end of the building was partially...

Brief History The official opening in February 1909 marked the start of eight decades for this school but was forced to close in 1990, the site lay empty and neglected for two years until the Kings school foundation bought it for its new girls division. The King's schools 2020 development plans...

April 2021- Maltby Grammar School is a stone built former secondary school which dates back to the 1930s. Known for its impressive clock tower, the school had a reputation for authoritarian discipline and conduct among its faculty. After years of unsatisfactory and inadequate Ofsted reviews...

This was the day which teachers were allowed in to collect their stuff before the school was demolished. I was teaching a photography class nightschool on this particular evening and as I was early I had a look around. It was particularly poignant for me because I attended this very school as a...

Hi, I’m Chloe and I’m 24 and want to begin exploring and have been directed to this website. I’m from Eastbourne East Sussex and have access to a car, would anybody be able to point me in the direction of some good places to explore? Thank you :)

So this was my first time exploring and I was super nervous about being caught on site. Luckily I saw nobody and no-one saw me. As you can see from my pics the building is tightly boarded and fenced, but it was still cool to be there. I've been to a few other places since this explore and will...

First Post not much to it I know but got to start somewhere... Went to the old site of Cheswyck school was not aware the building had been totally burnt down but was a few toys and signage and signs of the old pool and tennis courts.

Easington colliery school opened in the early 1900's and closed its doors in 1997. I visited here yesterday (8/20) I don't know too much on the history of this place other than it being a primary school but it's 20+ year abandoned, Got to be one of the most saturated soggy explores I've done...

After seeing some pictures online of this derelict school from other explorers, I just had to find this school and give it an explore myself and after much research I found it thankfully. This explore was over two visits over the course of June. This place was a small but still a fantastic...

Very brief history - The derby and Hartley buildings located on the Liverpool university campus previously used for engineering,biology and archeology all of which have been moved out between 2005 - 2010. The explore - this is a location I have previously explored a couple of times using the...

Hi fellow explorers, Before I actually start describing the experience itself, I've got to say if it wasn't for this forum I would've never gotten into urban exploration. I and my friend have been doing urbex since late December, either looking through satellite view on Google or looking through...

Balrossie School was originally built as an orphanage by The Sailors Orphans Society of Scotland. It was designed by Glasgow Architect, David Barclay and built in 1898-1899. Money to build the orphanage was raised by various donors and was designed to home 82 boys and 32 girls. It remained an...

SPRINGWELL LEEDS ACADEMY - Leeds, England - June 2020 HISTORY Springwell Leeds is an educational facility part of the Springwell School group. They were established in September 2016, and originally had 6 sites which served the whole of Leeds. They specialise in the education of children and...

the exploreSt Joseph’s college is probably one of my favourite and I steer sting explores to date.i have visited this place a few times in the day and night.these pictures are from my first explore here in the day back in April 2019. So me and a couple of friends arrived here one weekday morning...

Malsis School, a grade II listed property, was located at a mansion known as Malsis Hall on a 13-hectare site. It was founded in 1920 ans was a co-educational independent pre-prep and preparatory school for pupils aged 3 to 13. The school closed on 10 December 2014 due to a decline in pupil...

History: Somewhere in a small village in one of the former mining regions of Belgium, a new rather small monastery was created. Just a couple of years later though, the function of this monastery changed into a school. This went on without any changes into the 90s, this was also the time when...

March 2020 I visited this on on my own one weekday afternoon, I've not seen much from this place and only really became aware of it when I saw the below article appear on Facebook. The school was constructed in 1964 and was subsequently added to over the years with additional buildings, in 2011...

Ysgol Cae Top - Upper Bangor - March 2020 This is my first report! Dating back to 1871, the old site of Ysgol Cae Top has been abandoned in the middle of Upper Bangor since the school moved to new premises in 2009. At the time of closure there were plans to turn the site into residences but...