Great Britain Westmount College, Dover 2011

[Obscurity]

After a quick trip around a few sites with VWDirtBoy, UJ, Frosty, Maniac and Wevsky. We saw this charming little gem. Im suprised this place hasn't had more attention by local explorers. Although the building has suffered fire damage and has clearly seen its fair share of damage over the years it still has a nice, photogenic feel. Very relaxed explore to end the day, no security on site and access found quite easy. This was wesatmount college which originally had an entrance into the also explored winchelsea tunnels located in the nearby quarry. I'll let the photos do the talking...

Thanks for looking.

 

[Ramsgatonion]

Lovely pics. I remember seeing this place from the car park at St Martins.

 

[superwide]

Nice, i keep driving past this place but never stopped lol

 

[Nelly]

Nice, what is it that makes stairs so good??

 

[Maniac]

Nice one obscurity, wish I'd taken my camera now.

I visited this place 2 or 3 years back when it was a lot more complete and found it fairly bland and un-interesting. The years of decay since then make it look a lot better in some ways from a photography point of view, but it's sad to see the place in such a state.

It was origenally a manor house, but became a school later in its life apparently, and according to what I've read there's 19 acres of land with the place.

There's planning permission granted for re-development of the land and the origenal building. Details here

http://www.dover.gov.uk/planning/Applic ... key=209496

Decision notice here if anyone's interested.

http://www.secure.dover.gov.uk/planning ... 7971_1.pdf

 

[Wevsky]

Nice one obs..cant see the point in doing a seperate report so heres a few of mine mate..

Was a good dayout cheers guys

 

[Maniac]

Good photos with your new lens there Wevsky. Where the Corridor shot thou? :unfair:

 

[Wevsky]

Good photos with your new lens there Wevsky. Where the Corridor shot thou? :unfair:

Just looked strange ..no corridor shot...closest i got to it was this