This building has been covered elsewhere however as the place is so huge i've done several visits to cover the entire site. I kept discovering new rooms the more I visited and hope my photos do it justice [it's not easy to choose a mere few from a couple of hundred!] A truly magnificent place well worth anyone's time and effort with quite a lot of items still left inside especially the children's school books and written work. Alarmingly there are also a lot of reports with personal information of the children still scattered around the building and in metal filing cabinets. Some history and current info.
T.L was built in 1904 and was the home of Lt .Col. H. Jodrell who subsequently passed away in 1950. The Lodge was then turned into a special school in various guises for children for the Local Education Authority. This Lodge replaced an earlier T. Lodge originally built further up the valley. It was a mixed boys/girls school for disruptive or emotionally disturbed children who stayed at the school during the week and were allowed home at the weekend (if they had one). The children with no home usually went to Taxal Edge which was more of a borstal near by.
The Lodge closed it's doors finally in 2005 and was secured but obviously 'people' have been in - as is the norm - and taken out the fire places and other things. However there is still a personal sense to the building especially in the games room which has items still on the wall to do with depression etc...and also the wonderfully brightly painted bedrooms upstairs.
Sadly there was a fire in 2012 which damaged a large portion of the outbuildings....including the gymnasium but the majority of the site is still in good shape albeit vandalised.
On with the photographs....
The black gates infront of the grounds leading to the site
The front of the main building with discarded typewrite [one of many]
Again, the front exterior along with a part of the burnt out outer buildings
The rear of the main building
Exterior of one of the annexes which housed a kitchen and classrooms
Staircase in the above annexe which still has the best retro wallpaper!
The retro wallpaper
Annexe kitchen area
Annexe upstairs - filing cabinet still with some documents of the pupils
Educational papers, there are stacks of these on an adjacent shelf [personal details erased in ps]
A lone hanger in the annexe
Upstairs in the anexxe, looks as though this is now a drugs den, the only fire place left in the whole site though
Upstairs in the annnexe, the computer learning room
On to the main building, the staircase along with random typewrite again!
Inside the games room, a reminder of the troubles of some of the children at the school..none of these telephone numbers exist anymore, hence not being edited
The games and activites room sadly vandalised now
A typical incident report form, many of these are kay scattered on the floor downstairs, all personal details again erased
A cupboard in the main kitchen area, some remaining kitchenware
On to the upstairs rooms.....
The green bedroom - you'll see the individuality of the pupils with their different colored rooms!
The pale yellow bedroom
The bright yellow bedroom with magnificent ivy
The bright yellow bedroom again, fullview
The magnificent orange corridor between the bedrooms, and to think I actually desaturate 20% on all photos!
The pink and white bedroom with fabulous curtains! [i love retro curtains in a room!]
From the corridor into the pink and white bedroom
View into the 2 orange bedrooms through the yellow corridor
The green bedroom
The yellow bathroom with wonderful net curtains....frozen in time....
Up to the second floor.....
The yellow corridor
Some outer buildings again...
Hidden away behind a metal sheet [security] is an art and woodwork room with the equipment still in fairly nice condition. The children's artwork still on the walls
The small gymnasium sadly caught in the fire in 2012
Storage room for P.E equipment next to the tennis court
Finally the rear staircase of the main building....the cracks are beginning to show....
A lot of photos but this building really is amazing, I'd love to see it restored. Planning applications have been submitted but generally any building plans have been rejected as they don't want increaed volumes in traffic arounf=d the area and also due to the wildlife which is in the immediate area, so it remains a ghost.....
Thanks for looking
T.L was built in 1904 and was the home of Lt .Col. H. Jodrell who subsequently passed away in 1950. The Lodge was then turned into a special school in various guises for children for the Local Education Authority. This Lodge replaced an earlier T. Lodge originally built further up the valley. It was a mixed boys/girls school for disruptive or emotionally disturbed children who stayed at the school during the week and were allowed home at the weekend (if they had one). The children with no home usually went to Taxal Edge which was more of a borstal near by.
The Lodge closed it's doors finally in 2005 and was secured but obviously 'people' have been in - as is the norm - and taken out the fire places and other things. However there is still a personal sense to the building especially in the games room which has items still on the wall to do with depression etc...and also the wonderfully brightly painted bedrooms upstairs.
Sadly there was a fire in 2012 which damaged a large portion of the outbuildings....including the gymnasium but the majority of the site is still in good shape albeit vandalised.
On with the photographs....
The black gates infront of the grounds leading to the site
The front of the main building with discarded typewrite [one of many]
Again, the front exterior along with a part of the burnt out outer buildings
The rear of the main building
Exterior of one of the annexes which housed a kitchen and classrooms
Staircase in the above annexe which still has the best retro wallpaper!
The retro wallpaper
Annexe kitchen area
Annexe upstairs - filing cabinet still with some documents of the pupils
Educational papers, there are stacks of these on an adjacent shelf [personal details erased in ps]
A lone hanger in the annexe
Upstairs in the anexxe, looks as though this is now a drugs den, the only fire place left in the whole site though
Upstairs in the annnexe, the computer learning room
On to the main building, the staircase along with random typewrite again!
Inside the games room, a reminder of the troubles of some of the children at the school..none of these telephone numbers exist anymore, hence not being edited
The games and activites room sadly vandalised now
A typical incident report form, many of these are kay scattered on the floor downstairs, all personal details again erased
A cupboard in the main kitchen area, some remaining kitchenware
On to the upstairs rooms.....
The green bedroom - you'll see the individuality of the pupils with their different colored rooms!
The pale yellow bedroom
The bright yellow bedroom with magnificent ivy
The bright yellow bedroom again, fullview
The magnificent orange corridor between the bedrooms, and to think I actually desaturate 20% on all photos!
The pink and white bedroom with fabulous curtains! [i love retro curtains in a room!]
From the corridor into the pink and white bedroom
View into the 2 orange bedrooms through the yellow corridor
The green bedroom
The yellow bathroom with wonderful net curtains....frozen in time....
Up to the second floor.....
The yellow corridor
Some outer buildings again...
Hidden away behind a metal sheet [security] is an art and woodwork room with the equipment still in fairly nice condition. The children's artwork still on the walls
The small gymnasium sadly caught in the fire in 2012
Storage room for P.E equipment next to the tennis court
Finally the rear staircase of the main building....the cracks are beginning to show....
A lot of photos but this building really is amazing, I'd love to see it restored. Planning applications have been submitted but generally any building plans have been rejected as they don't want increaed volumes in traffic arounf=d the area and also due to the wildlife which is in the immediate area, so it remains a ghost.....
Thanks for looking
