When I moved to the capital region around one and a half years earlier, it became quite an adventure involving lots of sparkling wine and a children’s adventure park. Back then it was my friends driving me, this time around I was to be the chauffeur.
My friend, whom I actually had moved to the Southwestern part of Finland some 2,5 years earlier, was moving back to the North to do her practical training. She had no driver’s licence, so I agreed to rent a van in the capital region on a Friday evening, drive to the West, spend a night on her couch and drive her up North the following day. We’d then unload the van, go to our joint favorite restaurant, have a few beers and then I’d drive straight home and return the car on Sunday. Her parents would cover the costs.
But just a week before the move was to take place, I read a news article about a former school being demolished. Built in 1937 and enlarged in the 1960’s, it had been educating Swedish speaking pupils until 2014, when it was abandoned because of bad condition. Now they wanted to build a private daycare center to replace it.
Of course my friend agreed. After all we had been urbexing together before.
Here it is. I’m not sure, if the entire facade visible is the original 1937 school, or is it just the grey part to the center and right of the photo. The local museum authorities wanted to protect the oldest part of the school, but the city really didn’t greet this with enthusiasm.
As you can see, the name of the school has been in two languages, Swedish and Finnish.
There was an annex on the back side, and this one was definitely from the 1960’s or 1970’s. Surely nobody would miss that.
But there was no entry. As the plans for the daycare center were progressing, I thought this school would be a lost case, which I never got the chance to enter.