The first room downstairs was fairly dark.
This area was clearly related to the previous room.
I think this is the former woodworking class of the school.
And this must be the low wing built in the 1970’s. Thanks to its roof I managed to get in.
And here we have the school kitchen. Maybe I should visit basements more often, after all.
Well, well, well, what do we have behind the kitchen?
Only in Finland: saunas in schools.
A dressing room with lockers. Sirkka has occupied this one.
Instructions on preparing different dishes.
This probably is the school canteen.
This is obviously a dressing room.
Because the showers are right behind it.
A small lobby with a few toilets and a drinking fountain.
The basement corridor was in two levels.
A look inside one of the toilets. The manufacturer of these hexagonal tiles really must have had a monopoly on the market.
The only classroom was the school’s gym. It is probably the smallest one I have seen since the small, rural village school in 2021. That summer I also looked through the now shut window on the right.
Old school boards. These are valued by collectors nowadays.
It seems that I could have climbed inside and back up through that thing. I don’t know its name, but I know it’s used in gymnastics.
The portrait of former president Martti Ahtisaari can be seen in the lower left corner of the picture.
There was a small hatch below the stairway. Maybe the pupils have run a kiosk here.
The other staircase of the school was full of thrash.
So I decided to go back to the main staircase. Both of them featured similar paintings.
And here I am climbing back to the roof of the woodworking classroom.
The door to the side stairway. The gym is behind the basement window.
The former teacher apartment wing.
The main entrance. And the balcony. That concludes this exploration.
I haven’t returned since. But according to maps and aerial photos, the school still stands.