Report - High School For Girls, Chichester - November 2010

[AnotherMansCause]

Hi,
Visited with Chris86, the whole place is pretty trashed, but there are still some nice features and equipment left for our enjoyment .

The tramp's den was a little spooky, thankfully there was no tramp, but a nice touch was finding a clump of toilet roll covered in his mouldy faeces ...yum!

History has been done before, but here is a general overview, (taken from - The Derelict Miscellany :: Chichester High School for Girls):

The school opened in 1909 in purpose-built premises in the Stockbridge area of the city with twenty girls on roll and a staff of four. The school took on many evacuees during the Second World War from Portsmouth and London, although air raid practice was common here too. By the 1990s the school was exceeding capacity and, seeking ways to expand, it was proposed that the school move to a site next to the Chichester High School for Boys. The buildings occupying the site currently were used by the Council as a Professional Centre for teacher training and conferences until October 2007 but have since become derelict and vandalised

Had planned to do Graylingwell afterwards...however, security had other ideas

Anyway, onto the pictures!

Some weird fungal growth stuff!

Pudsey!

Obligatory picture-through-broken-glass

A previous meal for Mr Tramp?

Chris86 playing teacher

 

[chrisr86]

Time to add my pics!

Round this bit stinks to high heaven.

What will have been the canteen... once upon a time.

Walk-in fridge/freezer.

This shot reminded me of War of the Worlds

Mmmmm, pigeon.

There were a couple of fireplaces like this around.

This room was empty except for some newspapers the pupils had written up on the wall in one corner. The squatter lived nearby. That was a creepy discovery.

Sliiiiiiiiiiime.

Muahaha, I caught you off guard too.

Everybody milling about outside, oblivious