Report - Langleybury School - Hertfordshire - February 2013

[bhg]

History (borrowed) - In 1947 the estate was sold to Hertfordshire County Council who converted the house and grounds into a secondary school, named Langleybury School, which opened in 1949.[9] In the late 1950s a modern school building was built to the south of the mansion which remained in use as part of the school and as teacher accommodation.

Langleybury School closed in 1996 and for a time partly housed Hertfordshire County Council Social Services offices. The empty modern school became a favoured film location site, notably for the Hope and Glory TV series of 1999.

It is also used as a CCB (close combat battle) area for people who play Airsoft (an outdoor combat game) in the buildings which are still safe to enter.

Visited with PCWOX. The main building is still in the pretty good condition inside. Lots of blue paint in there

Pics here:

and some cute sheep

 

[Freddie Valentine]

Any idea if this is still standing?

 

[Yorrick]

Red1 Airsoft website says they use it every other Sunday so my guess would be yes, it's still there.

 

[paulgranston]

Heck that was eerie! Just stumbled upon this. I went to that school in 1968. It was a horrible place then and doesn't look much better now, ha,ha. Anyone there around that time? We did cookery classes that "film" building.