Saturday, May 23, 2009

Preston School of Industry - Part II




Fire hose reels hung from the walls near the ceilings.







X-Ray machine. How safe would you feel with this?


Towering ceiling of the boy's dormitory room. There was a nice view from their window too.



Fuse box?


Did I say serious decay?











The infirmary also served the local community, as they had no local hospital. The few beds on display in the "castle" are original equipment.


I would have loved to tour this facility before it was stripped of all it's glory and left to rot away. It was a beautiful building, beautiful setting and seemed to have turned out some boys with hope for a good future.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wasn't that our old bath tub from the house on 20 ?
Interesting that they would still leave a place like that standing. Things were somewhat more down to earth in those days.
Abu Jessie