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Report - Chaucer Tech College, Canterbury - September 2019

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Dragon_Urbex

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NOTE: THIS SITE IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING DEMOLITION AND ASBESTOS REMOVAL.

Literally within two days of me arriving at university for my first year, I caught wind of a derelict secondary school not too far from the actual main campus of my uni. So within five minutes of locating it, I was pelting off towards it on my bicycle! Upon arriving I could see it was beside a fairly busy road which made things slightly more difficult than they had to be, but hey ho. Such is the nature of urbex!

The Explore:

After scouting for about ten minutes, I clocked a security cabin in the main car park area. The guy was on his phone with headphones on so I snuck past him stealthily and managed to get into the school site. Definitely one of the more atmospheric places I've been to. 2,000 pupils used to attend here right up until 2015 when it closed down for good. Now the corridors are dark and dank. When I got into the building, that really musty sort of school smell hit me. I explored the place almost fully and spent at least three hours there. It's mostly empty but some cool features still survived.

Here are the photos, taken on two different occasions:

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*Snrk* :^)

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I like this pic if I might say so myself. The keys look like teeth!

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Thanks for readin'! :^)
 

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rebmeM LD82
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5 years on from the closure of Chaucer there is there's now a shortage of secondary school places in Canterbury and the surrounding area. Go figure on KCC's wonderful decision making deciding to close it.
 

Airfix

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
Nice report and photographs, not seen this one before since it closed.
 

8mm

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28DL Full Member
Can'r believe it was about to be demo'd and there was a grand piano sitting on the stage! FFS, what a waste, councils are just plain dumb. Now we need more schools and the ones we have can't expand because they sold off their playing fields too!
 

mookster

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Can'r believe it was about to be demo'd and there was a grand piano sitting on the stage! FFS, what a waste, councils are just plain dumb. Now we need more schools and the ones we have can't expand because they sold off their playing fields too!

Pianos are usually more of a hassle to move than they are worth hence why there are so many sitting in abandoned buildings, plus if the damp has gotten into it you may as well go and find a new one.
 

8mm

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Yes, certainly true for old uprights that languish in peoples houses, but grands are bleeding expensive and less common, even crappy ones, so to leave it in situ was mad. I've had people drive halfway across the country to pickup scabby pianos and that one looked pretty good.
 

Five.Claws

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Reminds me so much of my old high school that it's unreal. Very nostalgic!
Great photos, surprised to see the place in such good nick.
 

vushtrri

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I can recall....which shows my age,
many many years ago when on the site of the college were allotments and the sports/ playing field adjacent to it were plum orchards all the way up to Mounts Farm...had an endless supply of plums each summer. ..and the ‘road’ from St Martins Hill up Spring lane ,was a narrow lane with hedge up the centre. Down in the town itself there were still a few war damaged buildings propped up ..always worth a good explore especially one up Burgate lane that had a double depth cellar underneath. It must have been a grain merchants or such like, on the top floor was a beam and pulley sticking out into the street still with rope attached..very inviting to a 5 yr old!
 

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