Post by Tomspy77 on Apr 29, 2013 15:16:58 GMT -6
www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/schools/8603283/Abandoned-schools-tell-a-tale
"They sit forlorn and abandoned; windows boarded up with plywood. Once they hummed with humanity.Pathways to edification at places such as Hawthorndale School.
Tractors recently mowed the school's field of dreams that now produces hay.
And Hawthorndale is far from the exception. Several abandoned schools sit likes stains on Invercargill's landscape.
Weeds grow over fences, slowly claiming concrete courts.
Faded "for sale" signs sit in futile hope.
Some of the disused school buildings have been gradually removed over the years, after many were subjected to vandalism, graffiti and arson despite Ministry of Education prevention.
However, not all the former schools have ended up in this state. Some have been converted into alternative education facilities and some developed for housing.
Patricia Mesman, who lives across the road from the former Rockdale Park School, has watched the school succumb to arsonists since it was closed in 2005. Buildings have gradually been removed and only the old school fence and overgrown weeds remain. "
"They sit forlorn and abandoned; windows boarded up with plywood. Once they hummed with humanity.Pathways to edification at places such as Hawthorndale School.
Tractors recently mowed the school's field of dreams that now produces hay.
And Hawthorndale is far from the exception. Several abandoned schools sit likes stains on Invercargill's landscape.
Weeds grow over fences, slowly claiming concrete courts.
Faded "for sale" signs sit in futile hope.
Some of the disused school buildings have been gradually removed over the years, after many were subjected to vandalism, graffiti and arson despite Ministry of Education prevention.
However, not all the former schools have ended up in this state. Some have been converted into alternative education facilities and some developed for housing.
Patricia Mesman, who lives across the road from the former Rockdale Park School, has watched the school succumb to arsonists since it was closed in 2005. Buildings have gradually been removed and only the old school fence and overgrown weeds remain. "