Delamere Forest School is an almost century old institution near Manchester. It was set up in 1921 by Margaret Langdon, a prominent Jewish philanthropist, as a 'Fresh Air Home & School for Delicate Jewish Children' located deep in the Cheshire countryside. By the 1960s, as the need for that type of school fell out of favour it became a school dedicated to boarding and educating Jewish children with learning difficulties.
The school closed in 2011 after the old buildings became financially unsustainable, and the organisation moved into a wing of a specially constructed independent school where it stays to this day as a charitable trust.
I don't know what it was about this place but I really struggled to get any decent photos - a lot of the rooms were on the small side and sadly the original school assembly hall had been split up into smaller rooms at some stage, plus the synagogue was more just an empty room with a couple of framed photos on the wall and dedications engraved on the windows. It's a strange rabbit warren of a school, with separate buildings connected by wooden outdoor corridors which reminded me very much of the ones at West Park, albeit it on a much smaller scale. Metal thieves and local idiot kids have done their work leaving parts of it in a very messy state too. Despite that it's a pretty good explore and one I'm surprised hasn't had more attention from explorers.
Thanks for looking, more photos can be found here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mookie427/albums/72157683830728412
The school closed in 2011 after the old buildings became financially unsustainable, and the organisation moved into a wing of a specially constructed independent school where it stays to this day as a charitable trust.
I don't know what it was about this place but I really struggled to get any decent photos - a lot of the rooms were on the small side and sadly the original school assembly hall had been split up into smaller rooms at some stage, plus the synagogue was more just an empty room with a couple of framed photos on the wall and dedications engraved on the windows. It's a strange rabbit warren of a school, with separate buildings connected by wooden outdoor corridors which reminded me very much of the ones at West Park, albeit it on a much smaller scale. Metal thieves and local idiot kids have done their work leaving parts of it in a very messy state too. Despite that it's a pretty good explore and one I'm surprised hasn't had more attention from explorers.
Thanks for looking, more photos can be found here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mookie427/albums/72157683830728412
