Tresham College

Most people know the history of this place: been around since the 40’s, student population of 8,500, abandoned in 2007 when they built themselves a nice new college just up the road, etc.

The campus buildings are huge. Stretching for hundred of meters along the main road.


A typical scene inside one of the colleges corridors:


The end of this room contained blue tinted windows, which looked ominously like TV screens on standby:


Let’s go upstairs to Science room 13:






Endless corridors in this state give the college its nick name among explorers of “Trash ‘em college”


Although it’s not all vandalism. Occasionally whole ceilings would collapse and drop from above:


There’s always time for a quick mirror shot:
Em_UX and I:


There are literally hundreds of lecture rooms to serve the thousands of students, covering a wide range of subjects:






Murials, and tags left by students on the last day:


We decided to leave via the beauty therapy suite:










Our entry and exit point was in direct view of a CCTV camera claiming to be installed and monitored by Chubb, which we took with a pinch of salt.


Although you can imagine my surprise when we stopped for a sandwich and came back to find this fella parked next to my car… :p