We next moved towards the early 1960’s school building also abandoned. A sports hall had been built behind it not too long ago. The oldest part looks like it was connected to the second part, but it wasn’t. The newer part consisted of two pretty different looking wings. The entrance was straight to a stairway.Continue reading “Swiping My Way In Part IV”
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Swiping My Way In Part III
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”
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”
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”
The Fish Finger School Part X (With Some Extra Fish Fingers)
As our previous adventure with the Vantaankoski school ended so abruptly, we agreed to meet again and go finish our exploration with my friend. And soon enough, less than a month later, we were back at the scene. Things, however, had changed. There was a large truck bed with stuff on it. It looked likeContinue reading “The Fish Finger School Part X (With Some Extra Fish Fingers)”
Two Schools In One Shot
Every once in a while you spot something interesting while driving. This time it was this. A beautiful old school building, which had definitely seen better days. Like the older building of the mental asylum I covered in my previous post, even this beauty had been built in the 1920’s as a school for kidsContinue reading “Two Schools In One Shot”
The Fish Finger School Part IX
As we reached the basement, we had gone through the whole building accessible from the main entrance. In addition to the school and the stairway with the former teachers’ apartments, there was another stairway, which was only accessible from the outside. The door to it is the one on right. The balconies featured some ofContinue reading “The Fish Finger School Part IX”