St Peter's School, Gainford - Dec 2011

[mrdistopia]

Decided to use my final day off of the year for a urbex daytrip with MrEx who I know through Dissimulate. This was awesome because a) It's always nice to meet new fellow explorers and b) MrEx drives and I don't meaning I am usually only able to reach localish places via bicycle.

We started by taking a look at Windlestone - 3 cars parked at the front was not a good sign and neither was the security guard and his suggestion that we may wish to leave before we are savaged by dogs. Turns out the place has been bought now and is being done up although the guard was not exactly falling over himself to dish out info.

We than had a drive down to St Peter's School in Gainford just outside of Darlington. Disapointingly we were not able to enter the main area of the school buildings (this time!) so settled for some shots of the sports hall and adjoining rooms followed by building shots to give you an idea of the place's potential had we got further. The gym has fire damage and has most definately seen better days but I like decay - it's why I do this stuff so out came the camera.

Hope you like...

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MrEx was kind enough to let me borrow his ultra-wide Sigma 10-20mm lens...Amazing - Expensive but I seriously NEED one of these things - awesome!

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You get used to stepping over rubbish in these places. It was only once I got back and went through the photos that I realised how person-shaped all these bags look! http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/images/smilies/eek.gif

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Little bit of light painting fun.

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I was very tempted to reduce marks and correct this explaining that the correct term, in this context, should be hanged. :p

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Preparations being made for Jack Stoat?

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A crack of light

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Narrowly avoided a close encounter with the constabulary and, on leaving we bumped into 5 student types with a camcorder. Either a porno or a zombie flick i'm guessing. :)

Afterwards we went to a few other places but more on that in a later post...

Cheers for reading.

MrD