New Parks Boys School, Leicester - April 2013

[Goldie87]

New Parks Boys school was built sometime around the early 1950's, to serve the newly built New Parks Estate and surrounding area. It was joined to the girls school, which was a mirror image of the boys school buildings. The boys and girls schools merged in 1981 to become New Parks Secondary School, which was later renamed New Parks Community College. In 1999 Leicester City Council closed a load of schools in the city, they also merged my school and another with New Parks. We were moved from our fairly decent old school to the dingy buildings of New Parks, which although they had been refurbished were still pretty horrible. A year or two before I left the old boys buildings ended up being abandoned and boarded off from the former girls school which remained in use. This year the buildings have finally started to be demolished, unfortunately they had already been mostly stripped out by the time we got there. Bit of a shame as it had been boarded up with the contents left exactly as I remember it, did manage to find a massive stash of 1950's/60's/70's paperwork though!


Main Staircase by Goldie87, on Flickr


Yr 9 Form by Goldie87, on Flickr


Photo by Goldie87, on Flickr


Maths Corridor by Goldie87, on Flickr


Science Room by Goldie87, on Flickr


Register by Goldie87, on Flickr


Library by Goldie87, on Flickr


Round by Goldie87, on Flickr


Hall by Goldie87, on Flickr


Side Stairs by Goldie87, on Flickr


Stripping Out by Goldie87, on Flickr


Music Room by Goldie87, on Flickr


Cones by Goldie87, on Flickr


Evening Insitute by Goldie87, on Flickr


Hooks by Goldie87, on Flickr


Gym by Goldie87, on Flickr


Report by Goldie87, on Flickr


skylight by Goldie87, on Flickr

 

[UE-OMJ]

Looks a good place. Not enough old schools imo.

 

[flyboys90]

Very interesting site looks like there is still lots to see.

 

[Goldie87]

Cheers, just pretty gutted I hadn't bothered checking the place out sooner cos I know it would have been much more intact a few weeks earlier!

 

[mrtoby]

First picture is a belter

 

[KevOvo]

Great pics mate. Might pop over and see if anything is left of it!

 

[Stealthstar79]

Great report!
Wondered what it looked liked inside, played squash over the road.
Thanks!