In the last photo of the previous post we saw the side staircase. For some reason the following picture comes after it. Holiday ads made by cutting from newspapers. My personal favorite is the hotel-restaurant Mamma Mia. Back in my secondary school days we had a stupid inside joke called Pizzeria Magnifico. I did theContinue reading “Swiping My Way In Part III”
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Swiping My Way In Part II
First insights of the ground floor of the school: student art. The ground floor corridor. Or at least a part of it. This is what looks like another former music classroom. Something here didn’t quite add up. The portraits of three former presidents of Finland, posters about the national epic of Finland. And these areContinue reading “Swiping My Way In Part II”
Swiping My Way In Part I
Welcome to an all too familiar story. This beauty here is the former secondary school of a small town. It was originally built in 1950 and enlarged already back in 1959. It was a private secondary school, which was run by an association. For a long time they tried to get the permission to arrangeContinue reading “Swiping My Way In Part I”
Cut Short By Bankrupcy Part III
Being on the sawmill area outside working hours is forbidden, the sign says. Too bad I don’t believe in signs. There was a huge field next to the sawmill. On the other side of the field were several storage buildings. The storage buildings were just metal sheds. There was not much to see here. ThereContinue reading “Cut Short By Bankrupcy Part III”
Cut Short By Bankrupcy Part II
So we are back in the production area again. The machinery used in sawing the logs was still in place. This is the part of the building made out of concrete seen through the break room windows. It turned out to be some kind of a storage. Now that on the floor is most likelyContinue reading “Cut Short By Bankrupcy Part II”
Cut Short By Bankrupcy Part I
On my earlier tours I had spotted a rather large sawmill, which didn’t have any lumber piles on its yard. Instead the yard was slowly turning into a forest. I didn’t have time to go check out the place back then, but as my tour of all Finnish municipalities took me to the neighbouring oneContinue reading “Cut Short By Bankrupcy Part I”
Around We Go
Already tired of my never ending stories about bizarre and failed business ideas and real estate businesses? No? Good! Here’s another one. This here is a former nursing home. It was originally built in the 1940’s as a municipal home and enlarged in the 1960’s to a new use. The building visible in this pictureContinue reading “Around We Go”
Bringing Wisdom To The Countryside Part III
I next started exploring the wing behind the large doors in the lobby. It was in a better shape than the gym, but decay had started to find its way here, too. The radiators had been removed here. The school no more had a functioning heating system. Hadn’t probably had one for years. The doorContinue reading “Bringing Wisdom To The Countryside Part III”
Bringing Wisdom To The Countryside Part II
A small room with a double entrance. Not much of it is left. What followed was a small room, which resembled a lobby. In addition to the walls, the pupils have also decorated paper bags. Save nature, buy a new car, this one says. I don’t think that’s a universally accepted way of saving natureContinue reading “Bringing Wisdom To The Countryside Part II”
Bringing Wisdom To The Countryside Part I
Driving closer to yet another centre of a small municipality, which had lost more than half of its inhabitants in the past 50 years I spotted an old school. At first I thought it was just another old village school, but something made me turn around and have a second look. I really can’t tellContinue reading “Bringing Wisdom To The Countryside Part I”