St Matthew Infant School - borstal

St Matthew Infant School - borstal

Date:   Jan 2023

Location:  Bostal Medway

Public or Abandoned:  Abandoned

Demolished:  No

2014 report

Back in 2014, I visited the primary school but it was sealed apart from the hall across the Road, I finally got around to getting into the main building in 2023

The exploration was pretty simple and easy with no issue at all, Knowing the school and area pretty well makes things a lot easier, I drive past this prob a few times a month and have pretty much watched the school decline

Funny enough the side I did back in 2016 had no access but I'm glad I finally managed to see it all

History:

it is said that in 2005 the school closed down due to it merging with another school near. it was also said in 2007 the building was put up for auction.

North Weald Redoubt - Epping

 North Weald Readout 

Date: Jan 2023

Location: Epping, Essex

Public or Abandoned: Abandoned

Demolished:  No

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I wanted to do north weald Bassett for a while now but for some reason just never got around to exploring the fort, Well to kick off the 2023 travels, we picked up friends ( one who is local to me.) And another friend who was staying near the fort and headed to the fort, we got to the fort around 1pm and it was pretty simple ( just very muddy), we made our way in and started to look around, halfway through our visit there was another bunch of people who was looking around the fort, we kept looking around and we were able to get into some parts of the fort, my mate who been before said it was flooded and showed me photos from when she went, but this time round it was still pretty dry ( knowing fact we had hella lot rain ) as we coming out the fort a family was coming into the fort

So it said that the fort is a rare survivor off London mobilization centers to help protect London, it also said it is a victorian fort and it was built on top the hill, it said it was late victorian

the site was used in ww1,and by 1919 it said the site was brought by a telegraphy company who bult a radio station, the site was also used in ww2 , It said in the 1950s the site was taken over by GPO but was decommissioned in 1990s

Cobham Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery ( TS15 Anti Aircraft Battery) - gaurdhouse

 

Cobham HAA battery Gaurdhouse

Date: December 2022

Location: Cobham Kent

Public or Abandoned: Abandoned

Demolished:  No

This was a pretty simple explore - we was walking to go visit the battery but for some resaon we didnt go to the battery and gonna go back at a later date , i had a quick look around to see what was left of the building but there was not much left - so was only there for about 10/15 mins getting photos and footage.

i cant seem to find much history about this site online.

Berengrave Nature Reserve - Rainham Kent

 Berengrave Nature Reserve

Date: December 2022

Location: Rainham kent

Public or Abandoned: Public

Demolished:  No

i took a visit here back in ( 2017 ) but since they have redone I thought ill go and have a look, but I was a little bit disappointed as it seems like they have ruined the mills a bit with the pavement they have put through, but as we were there for about 10 mins taking photos, the site is now pram and wheelchair friendly though.

so it said that the mills was used back in 1912 to 1920 to grind chalk, which was then pumped to the British standard cement plant at Montney hill, it

said that the mills was abandoned after WW1sh .