Report - New College Durham 24th July & 2nd Oct 2007

[Northern Exposure]

New College Durham was closed in roughly 2004 and is in the process of conversion to..... new apartments

The college has relocated to new premises and the existing site has been developed to the point it is now a lived in housing estate with only the two remaining buildings awaiting work.

I visited this place initially back in July and managed the smaller of the two buildings with XM657 and came back tonight after a recce and managed the main building. Access was ridiculous, getting out after even worse!!!

Anyway, on with the pic's

First Building;

This place was used as lecture theatres, but most of the stuff has been removed.

Old spiral staircase

Library

The main building and tonight's explore;

This building was used as dorms on the upper floors and had one or two lecture theatres on the ground floor, and a kitchen area'
Most of the rooms are empty, which was a shame, but there were still one or two interesting rooms.

Nature reclaims

WC's

An old winch in the eve's for lifting the rafters when the place was built

View toward the smaller building

Main stairwell

Storage Attic

Other random shots

From the outside

Was a good explore, thanks for looking.

 

[xm657]

Re: New College Durham 24th July & 2nd Oct 2007 * Report*

Ok heres some more pics from me, quality not quite up to Northern Exposure's standard but hopefully you'll let me off as most were with a camera phone!

The main larger building

Remember these?!?

The roof top

This bird came down the chinmey but couldn't get out, must of had a long wait to die.

In the loft, but not much up there

The smaller building and note the CCTV

This one is the same shot as Northern Ex took, but I'm posting it up just as I'm chuffed how well it came out - taken with a little Nokia E50 mobile phone! This is taken from the smaller building looking towards the larger building and is basically the opposite shot to above - which is taken from the larger building