I Love Old Buildings
There is something about entering an old house ,especially a derelict one ...you can see how they used to live and find clues to their way of life and it takes you back to that time...it's fascinating
56-60, M
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
My upper school used to occupy buildings on totally separate sites well over a mile apart, and one was a strange, rambling old place, probably 19C, perhaps 18C.
It was called Connaught House but I have no idea if was built as a school or as a house.
It was not derelict of course, as we were using it, and a few rooms on the first floor were occupied separately as a flat; but it had a lot of unused rooms plus corridors and staircases leading... somewhere. ("Just for fun"?) There was even a disused bathroom just outside my class-room.
I'd love to have been able to explore it, and know a bit more about it.
Ours was the last generation to use it as we moved to brand-new, purpose-built, superbly-equipped school buildings - of which half were recently demolished! Connaught House is all gone now, I believe, swept away to make room for yet another clone housing-estate. Maybe next time I drive past, I will take a little detour.
It was called Connaught House but I have no idea if was built as a school or as a house.
It was not derelict of course, as we were using it, and a few rooms on the first floor were occupied separately as a flat; but it had a lot of unused rooms plus corridors and staircases leading... somewhere. ("Just for fun"?) There was even a disused bathroom just outside my class-room.
I'd love to have been able to explore it, and know a bit more about it.
Ours was the last generation to use it as we moved to brand-new, purpose-built, superbly-equipped school buildings - of which half were recently demolished! Connaught House is all gone now, I believe, swept away to make room for yet another clone housing-estate. Maybe next time I drive past, I will take a little detour.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
Thank-you for the heart - usually I use a message for thanks but you request no PMs.