Me and man gone wrong and janovitch tried here about six years ago and lasted about half an hour without getting in a single building. So we decided to give it another crack again in the summer. So we made two trips over a few weeks to cover the site the best we could. We had two lovely days here uninterrupted which was nice. I have seen recent pics from here and it seems like its getting a bit of a battering from the locals now.
HMS Ganges was a training school for new recruits off the royal navy, it was known to be a hard and harsh place to be posted. built in 1905 it grew in size over the years training thousands of new recruits. All had to go up the mast in the middle of the parade ground. The mast is listed and quite a feature, sadly we could not get near it as security was parked right near it. The training school closed in the 1980's and was used right up until 1999 as a police training college. Rumours of it being knocked down and built into a new housing development have been going around for years, but still no work there yet.
The Pool
The swimming pool at Ganges is quite stunning. The pool is of Olympic style proportions, its built in an art deco style with lots off lovely white tiles everywhere.
To the side is the old boiler and pump rooms. This was one of my favourite parts and seems not many bother looking at them as they just want the pool.
BUNKER
There are a few bunkers on the site. They stretch quite a way underground. I passed several rooms of the same design before it got too flooded. It's the same way going the other way from the entrance hatch. I can imagine they could fit in quite a few people.
To be continued..
HMS Ganges was a training school for new recruits off the royal navy, it was known to be a hard and harsh place to be posted. built in 1905 it grew in size over the years training thousands of new recruits. All had to go up the mast in the middle of the parade ground. The mast is listed and quite a feature, sadly we could not get near it as security was parked right near it. The training school closed in the 1980's and was used right up until 1999 as a police training college. Rumours of it being knocked down and built into a new housing development have been going around for years, but still no work there yet.
The Pool
The swimming pool at Ganges is quite stunning. The pool is of Olympic style proportions, its built in an art deco style with lots off lovely white tiles everywhere.
To the side is the old boiler and pump rooms. This was one of my favourite parts and seems not many bother looking at them as they just want the pool.
BUNKER
There are a few bunkers on the site. They stretch quite a way underground. I passed several rooms of the same design before it got too flooded. It's the same way going the other way from the entrance hatch. I can imagine they could fit in quite a few people.
To be continued..
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