Tales of the Urban Explorer: Shevington Community Primary School

“Even if we get past those pointy metal fences, I don’t see a way inside?”

The disparaging attitude was a combination of my distaste for exploring abandoned schools, the weather which while was fine looked to be threatening, as well as my stomach which was crammed with fried potatoes courtesy of the local ‘chippy’.

So I was feeling a little lethargic...

Explores were thin on the ground, and this was going to be a fence perimeter hike, in search of a small breach. The grass was long meaning my feet were going to be cold, and numb soon.

It was November and I should have been at home, hibernating from this shitty weather and freezing conditions.

A ‘Time Capsule’ had weaned me out (not published yet), and me being me I needed more than a single explore for the trip to be worthwhile.

Angling to the back of the school, yet another building with an identity crisis we followed a long fence down to the far corner hoping for a break.

A hole beckoned and things were looking up. Nobody appeared to notice us scrambling through the gap, hastily making out way to the safety of the closest building, and through a window that someone had dragged the 'tin covering' from, revealing a dark hole.

The ‘Head Teacher’s office behind the predictably left behind massive photocopier was bare, we plodded on looking for more.

I wasn’t hungry and the food likely is not rated at ‘FIVE’ anymore.

The school looked in decent condition and supposedly has been closed since 2017, to be replaced by another school.

I would say, what’s wrong with this one, besides all the smashed glass, holes in the wall, the odd slab of concrete looking to tip the unwary and possibly some piles of human shit if you look closely enough.

…’there’s always some joker who thinks it’s cool to take a dump in the middle of the floor and hope the next explorer stands in it’…

The sinks at ‘Shevington Community Primary School’ have been purposely designed to face away from the students. It could be considered innovative but looks quite shit.

The water would all dribble the other way, I suppose creating less ‘water’ accidents.

Projectors are almost in the same league as photocopiers, in that they tend to get left behind. Fuck the cost, it’s too bloody heavy to move.

…we will buy a new one when we reach the new place, they are only a few grand…

At times I thought I was in jail, or maybe a chicken coup.

What is ‘COSSH’, not more bad spelling retards, surely?

A not very interesting list, including more ‘COSSH’.

I still want to know where the homeless get this unlimited amount of disposable sleeping bags from. Maybe it’s some government concession?

An original Xbox Football game, that’s’ circa 2002 or so. The kids would be complaining about ancient technology, I am sure.

…and a few more. Why would the supplier of these games buy ‘Big Motha Truckers’ knowing full well the small kids would have another similar phrase going through their heads.

I was starting to think this was a games store, not a school. ‘The Legend of Zelda’ is classic, but very involving, and not a great choice to pick up, have a go and then discard.

Various pieces of old hardware, a game controller but no sign of the vintage consoles they used to run on.

‘TheTics’ is short for ‘Latics’, which is short for ‘Athletic’, the local team being Wigan Athletics. We do have some strange customs.

Having extinguished this building, we had to climb back out to get in one of the others. Thankfully, if you looked hard enough there were just enough holes to manage at least all of the bigger sections.

It was a primary school after all. Some teenagers need this type of education, but I can’t criticise them too much as I was complete dumbass at school.

We were far from the first unwanted visitors to ‘Shevington Community Primary School’, but it has remained relatively free of the Urbex radar.

The Science cupboards were remarkably low on resources, unless you count dust, grime, dirt, and several spiders who were less than happy at our presence.

I can’t remember swinging on this large gym contraption, though I am sure @anidiotexplores likely did.

This section of the school was looking more derelict than previous parts.

The fireplace surround has to be pulled off, there could be bags of money behind there, what other reason would someone do that?

Most of the mess it what used to be in the ceiling, pulled down and strewn about.

The ICT Suite should been brimming with the latest cutting technology, such as Sony PS2, and Xbox 1’s, but all we found was piles of crap and plenty of places to piss in the corner.

My writing used to be as bad as this, actually it’s reverting to be like this again due to lack of practice.

‘The Sunflower Room’ was anything but, with little or no light and more piles of junk everywhere we looked.

This was all making little sense to me, I should have read though the checklist.

Down the corridor was light and an escape from the gloom and all things trying to trip me up.

‘Shevington Community Primary School’ initially looked sealed, but on closer inspection yielded gaps in the form of windows and even doors that while appeared locked, were actually open.

Sometimes you need to try the doors, they can surprise you.

The clouds were looming and one of our explores would be done in the pissing rain. It was November, and that means almost constant wetness.

Oh the joy…

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