Back at yet another familiar location. This old elementary school for Swedish speaking kids had stood empty since 2014 waiting for demolition and replacement with a kindergarten. I’ve been looking for a way in twice in 2011 and once in 2022. This is already my fourth attempt. For some strange reason there was a carContinue reading “Caught In Crossfire Part I”
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Status Unchanged
And yet another check up on a familiar location. This here is the 1920’s built teacher apartment building featured earlier here. A year has passed, but the building seems as closed as it was the previous year, when I found it. So let’s just go around and photograph it. Nothing new to discover here, itContinue reading “Status Unchanged”
Looks Like They Started
Once again my ferocious Googling revealed a location, which soon would be gone. The former elementary school of Finland’s smallest town, Kaskinen, built in 1978, had been abandoned for years because of moisture damage. It was set to be demolished. There it is, and it looks like at least some preparations have started. Although theContinue reading “Looks Like They Started”
Seeing The Birches Grow
Continuing my yearly check ups on places I’ve visited the previous summer, here’s the village school I randomly discovered back in 2022. Back then I encountered a neighbour, who told me, that somebody had transformed it into a home, but nobody lived there. First he encouraged me to buy it, then he encouraged me toContinue reading “Seeing The Birches Grow”
Some Towns Are More Effective Than Others
I told you earlier about finding the list of property strategies of municipalities and towns and using them to find abandoned properties destined for demolition. Well, I had again encountered the list of a small regional town, which was losing people fast. I could determine, that some of the buildings had already been demolished, butContinue reading “Some Towns Are More Effective Than Others”
Too Guarded For Me
And here we have the first glimpses of what I really was looking for when entering the transformation station. This here is a former school of some kind. Back in the days when I first visited the place, I had no clue what it was. I’ve since figured it out, though. But figuring out orContinue reading “Too Guarded For Me”
It’s An Epidemic
For years now I’ve been complaining about old, 1930’s to 1950’s built school buildings being demolished around the country. Well, I’m going to keep on complaining, because here we go again. This is the former elementary school of Peipohja in Kokemäki, the very village, where I bought my dear summer car Alice. It was builtContinue reading “It’s An Epidemic”
Another School Gone To Waste
And so my journeys in the world of to be demolished municipal buildings continue. This time it was to be a former school closed just that very spring. Already it had been reported, that people had broken into the school, climbed to the roof, removed tiles and thrown them all around the yard. Built inContinue reading “Another School Gone To Waste”
Exploring With A Landlady Part II
So, my first location of the day. This is the former sailor school featured previously in photos from 2021, pretty much nothing had changed since then. It was coupled up in the same detail plan suggestion as the previously featured school, and despite again being considered regionally important, was also destined for demolition. Not forContinue reading “Exploring With A Landlady Part II”
Exploring With A Landlady Part I
All the way until the previous spring I had still visited my old home town weekly, although I had moved away for almost four years ago. For the first few years I slept mainly on trains travelling back and forth, the pandemic also caused some loger times, during which I didn’t travel at all. ButContinue reading “Exploring With A Landlady Part I”