458 Comments for Belchertown State School

Aren't these antiques? Why do they let these things just sit around and decay like this?

Still such a shame to let a building just waste away like this.

Everybody says beautiful, beautiful when I feel, such a waste. But I know what they mean; Motts has a wonderful photography talent!

Why oh why do they let these buildings sit vacant to the point of no return ? What a waste!

earlswood would have been a blinder too, i went there in 97\98 to an auction and it was well grim, it had its own full operating theatres and eveything, they turned it into 400,000 pound flats with a big centeral swimming pool and called royal earslwood park as oppossed to royal earlswood mental hospital. i wonder if the tenants of today now the history, quite weird to live in old asylum......

If anyone would mind bringing that out, I've got a lot of really old (circa mid 1960s) home movies I'd like to watch. It seems the only place you can get a film projector is in abandoned schools for the mentally disabled.

Kind of gives new meaning to the term "Green Room"

Yay!

Urm, no idea where you are planning to go in Engerland, but if you find yourself in South East London, there's a great photo-worthy place in a town called Coulsdon. The place is called Cane Hill Asylum.

nice chairs

its a british victorian prison....how could you keep fragile kiddys in here man..

its almost like an arena, who would sit and watch.... and what would you watch....

motts youve just missed the most spectacular sports center being bashed in crawley west sussex...... and rakes of schools...

This looks like a former swimming pool. Turn of the century Gymnasiums had these upper balconies inside. Maybe bad fill is why the floor is so unstable.

I'll be in England next week! ;-)

It is my wet dream to visit an abandoned theatre.

But I wouldn't go without somebody like Motts (or Motts himself) to take the pictures.

Motts, you still need to get to the UK fella!