Sometimes abandoned buildings are left as if they are still used every day.
This derelict university in the centre of a city is a great example of this because it was untouched with working power. Even the lifts still functioned.
Structures of education that are abandoned are our favourite types of places to explore and this one is the best we have seen yet.
So come along with us as we take a look inside the property to see what remains.
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It is an important fact that this is the only disused structure in the entire university, although some wouldn't notice due to the lack of vandalism
or damage on the giant building. Promising signs such as lights turned on inside made
us know we were looking at a special site. Once we gained access, our beliefs about the
building came true. Everything was left inside here - all the furniture, classwork and more
from a bygone era. It is strange that equipment wasn't moved to the rest of the university
when this building closed down. However, maybe it stayed due to it being outdated. The specific
building we are looking at was the zoology portion of the university. Therefore it made
sense that we found animal bones and other biological equipment gathering dust. The university
opened in the 1880s and took in students from the city it is based in. It seems that the
knowing of the zoology building's closure was almost kept secret so we are unsure when
this building exactly shut. Due to the items we found inside however, we can estimate around
a decade ago, but perhaps it closed in sections with different parts closing whilst others
remained in use. There was actually too much stuff to look at and we could've spent hours
looking through it all. As we moved around the large structure we found lots of papers,
some being reports of students, some being the student's classwork whilst some being
pages from science books. We also found many flasks of chemicals so we made sure we didn't
touch anything potentially hazardous. If you didn't already realise, the structure is very
large. There was 5 storeys of completely untouched education and we wanted to look at everything.
Larger classrooms like these would've hosted many students, perhaps to do group experiments
like dissections. You can clearly see the age of the university from the chalkboards
which are rarely seen in current buildings of education. All the classrooms were very
unique like this one with a spiral staircase leading up to seats that would look down onto
the teacher. One thing we didn't expect from the building's decently-maintained exterior
was decay internally, but the university had some surprises for us as we explored it. We
enjoyed seeing more relics of the recent past, particularly this computer. Amidst the decay,
there was also sections of the building that didn't even look abandoned, where power roamed.
In one part, we were amazed to find out that the lifts still functioned perfectly, so I
decided to test one out. 'As if I'm in a lift in an abandoned building!' 'Oh my god!' 'Hey
guys' The university's stunning lecture theatres was a great room to see, as in the current
day they are made to function, but not to look nice. This building consisted of two.
It is weird that while we were exploring this abandoned site, surrounding us was a live
university where students head through every week day. We reckon about 200 students minimum
could fit inside the lecture theatres to view lectures on their biology themed topic. More
details in here linked to the site's aged facilities, like the old televisions at the
side of the theatre and the projector placed at the top. This part of the campus may have
closed for many different reasons. We believe either the building was outdated itself, as
well as it's equipment, or perhaps there wasn't enough students enrolling for the zoology
subject, so the university didn't need such a large building. At one stage of the exploration,
we were able to venture out onto the roof to see the surrounding city on a moody day.
The final bit we had missed was the lower levels of the structure, where it appeared
a lot of the old furniture and equipment was being stored. All of the remaining chairs
were down here, stacked up in many different rooms, another odd factor. Why couldn't they
have moved across the road to an active part of the university? Following our exploration,
which was 3 or 4 months ago, the site has been stripped of all the items so it appears
that some work is going on into the building's maintenance. Perhaps it will be used again
as a space for education, or maybe as flats for the students to live in while they learn
here. Knowing this information, we were very content that we were able to see an insight
into education from the past decade because it shows how much the system has changed to
now.