spooksprings
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Coed Y Lan Comprehensive School, Pontypridd
Built 1895 as a county grammar boys school. Extended 1939. Founded as a comprehensive 1973. It appears
to have closed in 1999 following a meningitis outbreak, followed by a boycott by parents at the 'insanitary
Victoriana'. Situated on a hill with rolling views over Pontypridd and a thick woodland behind. According to
the Wiki, it has a long list of professional graduates. Motto: Ymdrech a Lwydda ; Effort and Success.
Abandoned since around 2000 it is in a delicious paint peeling stage of deterioration. Features the original
school with new additions of a Greek style gymnasium, huge stage and a breeze block block. To avoid the
responsibility of renewing an aesthetically pleasing school, the council finds it easier and cheaper to let it rot
to the point where it is granted an immediate demolition order to the prospective client. It is currently for
sale/auction under Savill.
Some blurry shots from 2011
http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=21031#.UIMPrW_A_jI
You Tube before and after video
youtube.com/watch?v=Ccwt7G6Hx0c
Meningitis Outbreak At School 1999
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/1999/feb/11/features11.g23
As I started on my survey, the site was invaded by a gang of teens! But luckily they were the right sort and
I offered them some gym and french lessons. Mind you they could have been ghosts of the school past for I
know, never can tell what is real. They came from the new version of this school and said they would prefer
this one.
Plaque on the new large block
Todays letter is a big W
Refrectory
I was confronted by this disfynctional oven robot in the kitchen.
Greek style gymnasium 1939.
Guaranteed rope friction burns and cold shower.
The 1939 main hall and stage. Is the show starting soon?
Victorian school
Chemistry drawers
Hi I need some Deflagrating Spoons, 4 x Bent Adaptors, a T-Piece U-Tube, and a load of Combustion Boats, don't forget the four candles.
A floating piece of paper with a sigil of death near Haloween? ...!
These bolts were the size of men, maybe they had a Frankenstein project?
Dangerous ceiling held up by splinters
Stairway to heaven? No, straight to the headmasters office.
Todays Lesson...don't arrive 10 years late for school.
The old Victorian hall
Two knobs
Ancient thermostat
The pool of melting despair
This is the last reserve of rough waxed toilet paper in the world, for John Wayne fans.
Thanks for coming on the adventure! Spooks
Built 1895 as a county grammar boys school. Extended 1939. Founded as a comprehensive 1973. It appears
to have closed in 1999 following a meningitis outbreak, followed by a boycott by parents at the 'insanitary
Victoriana'. Situated on a hill with rolling views over Pontypridd and a thick woodland behind. According to
the Wiki, it has a long list of professional graduates. Motto: Ymdrech a Lwydda ; Effort and Success.
Abandoned since around 2000 it is in a delicious paint peeling stage of deterioration. Features the original
school with new additions of a Greek style gymnasium, huge stage and a breeze block block. To avoid the
responsibility of renewing an aesthetically pleasing school, the council finds it easier and cheaper to let it rot
to the point where it is granted an immediate demolition order to the prospective client. It is currently for
sale/auction under Savill.
Some blurry shots from 2011
http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=21031#.UIMPrW_A_jI
You Tube before and after video
youtube.com/watch?v=Ccwt7G6Hx0c
Meningitis Outbreak At School 1999
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/1999/feb/11/features11.g23
As I started on my survey, the site was invaded by a gang of teens! But luckily they were the right sort and
I offered them some gym and french lessons. Mind you they could have been ghosts of the school past for I
know, never can tell what is real. They came from the new version of this school and said they would prefer
this one.
Plaque on the new large block
Todays letter is a big W
Refrectory
I was confronted by this disfynctional oven robot in the kitchen.
Greek style gymnasium 1939.
Guaranteed rope friction burns and cold shower.
The 1939 main hall and stage. Is the show starting soon?
Victorian school
Chemistry drawers
Hi I need some Deflagrating Spoons, 4 x Bent Adaptors, a T-Piece U-Tube, and a load of Combustion Boats, don't forget the four candles.
A floating piece of paper with a sigil of death near Haloween? ...!
These bolts were the size of men, maybe they had a Frankenstein project?
Dangerous ceiling held up by splinters
Stairway to heaven? No, straight to the headmasters office.
Todays Lesson...don't arrive 10 years late for school.
The old Victorian hall
Two knobs
Ancient thermostat
The pool of melting despair
This is the last reserve of rough waxed toilet paper in the world, for John Wayne fans.
Thanks for coming on the adventure! Spooks