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I have good memories of going swimming here, and using the slides. Also went to computer fairs in the indoor football courts. The council shut it because the energy bills were out of control. I go to Sedbergh a few times a week to swim, and while there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, it has no character like Richard Dunn (and no waterslides - which were really fun!!)

Spent nearly every day here in the summer holidays as a child. A session swimming followed by chips in a cone for the walk back home. It was a fantastic sports centre, accessed by the windowed walkway overlooking the pool on the left & the sports hall on the right. As I remember it, the place was always busy with so much stuff going on all the time. Aerobics & step classes, squash courts etc. We couldn’t always afford a swim so we’d just go anyway and ‘lake’ about with friends but we’d always end up being kicked out. Fun times & it was just up the road from where I lived. Sad to see it’s in this state now.

So much effort must go into these. The content and post production is excellent. Again, like the way you try to leave it as you found it. Yes, your diagnosis of the TV was pretty accurate. 😂

Another great video. I need to remember to thumbs up. I have subscribed. Not sure you have posted in a while but I like the way you try and not damage anything. I cannot believe properties are just left like this.

So many questions. Those grapes? Where did they come from and how on earth could BA just abandon this place. Absolutely crazy and so wasteful. Great watch however.

Great video. Can I ask what drone you use and camera when walking around. The footage is excellent. So sad to see such a once beautiful building left to rot. The fountain just sitting there like that. 😢 Wonder why it’s full of gas cylinders and skips.

Hated my time at this school, Kempston, Bedford. Headed to London and never been back.

Some are converted into flats and apartments as they are listed I think parts of this one might be. Wales and Scotland still have few I think. High Royds was in several films and in several songs and was where the water tower plan was anounced closing these places as the became too big Whittingham Hospital opened in 1873 had over 3,000 patients I think high royds has over 1,000. These two even had there own train stations and engine sheds

All those cables and bits of copper would be coming with me

Such a shame. This building used to be a beautiful landmark back in my youth. 1970’s/80’s.

That’s an amazing place, what a waste to be left to rot, maybe family squabbles have left it in the lurch, so it sits there waiting for a new life! 😯

I left in 1985.didnt enjoy it but met some good lads(and lasses)

Place was huge that is a big operation from some group running scale!! In and out by looks of it maybe a couple of runs and then probably found by people braking in and then they left! If police raid it they normally leave it a lot different to this! Like they left with what they needed carefully take lights and bit with them

Intresting video.. great explore thankyou .

is it still there i might go soon

I wonder how long it took to set up

This place is quite interesting I passed this place all time when I go to Shell Island Camping but someone told me that big Tower used to be a dorm or something quite interesting video thanks I got this building on my phone screen on my phones because my mate said there was many people sleeping there that's why it's called a dorm that's why the that big Tower thing is actually a dorm I didn't know that at first

Algo tango brought me here😎

Holy f#%k, how does peops b gettin that amount of gear in ther without been spotted, it's insane 😮

Sad to see this, I was a student in that very block from 1991-1993. Have so many happy memories of Coleg Harlech and Harlech itself.

I’m late to this video but yeah.. I thought police stations had CCTV??

They pulled it down now

I went to this school and have great memories of my time there - it's all just a pile of rubble now. I remember caring for some ducklings in the central little gardeny bit!

Is it still got active security in planing to go soon

Love this, but shame to see it decaying, I wonder if it ever belonged to distant relatives of my family.

£4.5m now. Jacob Rees Mogg grew up here.

if I remember rightly this place was used in the BBC adaptation of decline and fall which is a 1920s evelyn waugh novel. such a shame to see it in this condition I would've thought the locals would've taken care of it!.

Is this in bovingdon?

What's the hotel called please?

tried going here with my friend today, was literally no possible way in, every reachable window was boarded with metal and literally no way in.

They need to open them places back up A.S.A.P. Especially in Wales. Full of nutters.

I lived at the Brudahof in ashton keynes when i was a kid. You should see the cemetery in the top field. From what i remember. They are around WW2 Or before. Got a couple Polaroid pics of me in and around, what was the cottage ,and the cow sheds. The row of houses on the right as you go up the drive were all the staffs houses. The big house after those was called larkrise. Which was for the older lads to lead a less staff controlled life before they leave the care system. The main square of old buildings were the offices and the polytechnic school. The last building you went upstairs in video i think was called longbarn. Which runs parallel to the dairy. And from there heading away from main buildings theres a farm track leading uphill to get to cemetery looks like a clump of trees if you didnt know it was there

Would you be willing to try and get in again with me? I tried today and was unable too.

Wow, shocking to see this. I grew up here. It was my late grandparents hotel and then left to family who let it go to hell. My grandparents would be devastated at what it's become 💔

33:24 are the stripping units blow towers where the treated seawater has the bromine blown out.

great video. and authentic in history....

Good Drone work 👍 looks like a good place for a couple of hours exploring 😎

Every thing english is being distroyed😮😢😢😢

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

I was thrown out of there after a single term, then went and camped in the sand dunes for a couple of months. That was 2006 and I went on to sober up and did my degree at Aberystwyth Uni. I can’t say I enjoyed it much at Coleg Harlech, mainly because I don’t remember a great deal of it!

A Most Excellent Video

I used to go down there every year with my dad’s side of the family. Shame it has been abandoned for a while. I think I read somewhere that it is going to be renovated at some point and will hopefully reopen someday

Thank you !

That first building wasn’t an office. It was a 33,000v Scottish power substation that was decommissioned as it was stripped live. I do building maintenance for them and was called out to the octel substation

On fire as I write this.

Memories.... I used to work there in 91 - 93

I stayed there the last year it was opened, it was a shame u can see it used to be nice but the hotel room was damp, and very little money had been spent in years. The food was nice and the pool ok. My daughter was about 5 so closed 6 years ago 2018 I think.

Holy shit indeed

And at 16:00 the pets ashes “Oscar” was the house dog when I worked there - brown dog, he was amazing!

Some lnside knowledge about this place, I worked there about 10 years ago, kitchen work, it was owned by an Andrew Davies who owned Von Essen, it was running out of money fast when I was there, we had meetings with Andrew Davies explaining we had to push on yet payday got later and later. He was often coming too Ston with an Italian toy boy - Andrew was a deranged coke head. The manager when I left was called mark, he was cheating on his wife, at the time, with a fat old worker there. He never paid me my final check. I’ll be honest the place deserved to fail, they screwed me over. I didn’t see you go down to the basement or to the outhouse. When you went out the back kitchen door the outhouse is past the steps on the right - the smoking area was the old stables to the left. I’m glad the place failed, it deserved it, most the workers were liars. I should probably go and have all them copper pans in the basement “old kitchen” unless someone else has had them away. If you go out the gates, turn left and follow the road, there’s a church, then a turning left, go past that and the first house on your left is the staff house - been fucked up many a time in these two locations 😂