seamusuk
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Taken from a UK Urban Exploration website- they are in a derelict former school in Devon 
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Sorry I just had to share the pain !!!!!!
Seamus
.Sorry I just had to share the pain !!!!!!
Seamus
A couple of VERY painful to look at pics.........
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seamusuk
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And if you thought that was painful.........
Look at what is in front of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Look at what is in front of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cfz2882
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a little surface rust,but appear totally intact-might be some
good fix up projects for someone.
hotpoint even still has the sticker in place.
good fix up projects for someone.
hotpoint even still has the sticker in place.
matchboxpaul
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OMFG!
THATS MY MOTHERS MACHINE.
A red 3236H!!!!!!!
Jeepers I feel sick to the core!!!
We have lids and replacement doors, access to rechroming facilities, as well as respraying experts.
What to do! What to do! argggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Paul :-(
THATS MY MOTHERS MACHINE.
A red 3236H!!!!!!!
Jeepers I feel sick to the core!!!
We have lids and replacement doors, access to rechroming facilities, as well as respraying experts.
What to do! What to do! argggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Paul :-(
OUCH!!!!
What To Do!!!
Uggghhh, get that van out & start driving!!!!!
Sad and sorry state but well worth restoration, at least we have the Hotpoint toploaders sorted, but Ohh that poor Matchbox, have the matching dryer but no washer..Hmmm
Uggghhh, get that van out & start driving!!!!!
Sad and sorry state but well worth restoration, at least we have the Hotpoint toploaders sorted, but Ohh that poor Matchbox, have the matching dryer but no washer..Hmmm
electron1100
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DEVON school
Seamus which one?............
Seamus which one?............
electron1100
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school
Ah its Stoke Damerel High School i know where that is dunnow about getting in there though plus trying to remove appliances might be hard, they will end up at plymouth city dump ;-(
Ah its Stoke Damerel High School i know where that is dunnow about getting in there though plus trying to remove appliances might be hard, they will end up at plymouth city dump ;-(
geextrarinse
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I LOVE IT!
ChesterMike - I LOVE your hotpoint collection - any american Filter Flo lover would fall to their knees! - I'd love to see these in person - they look like such neat machines!
are they similar to our GE's inside?
Matt
ChesterMike - I LOVE your hotpoint collection - any american Filter Flo lover would fall to their knees! - I'd love to see these in person - they look like such neat machines!
are they similar to our GE's inside?
Matt
laundromat
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ChesterMike
You seam to be a bit agitated!
You seam to be a bit agitated!
Shriek!
I hope they can be saved! Looks like the school closed around 1989, so I guess they've sat there ever since, remarkably unvandalised too! I wonder if the council still owns the place, I'm sure they'd be happy to take scrap value! Also, the place looks good structurally and one would expect stuff like this to be on the ground floor.
Gary, any chance of going on a reconnaisance mission?!?!
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I hope they can be saved! Looks like the school closed around 1989, so I guess they've sat there ever since, remarkably unvandalised too! I wonder if the council still owns the place, I'm sure they'd be happy to take scrap value! Also, the place looks good structurally and one would expect stuff like this to be on the ground floor.
Gary, any chance of going on a reconnaisance mission?!?!
Stoke Damerel High School For Girls, Plymouth
The Stoke Damerel Secondary School for Girls was founded in August 1926, when the Plymouth Local Education Authority transferred the girls from Regent Street Central School to join the girls at Kep…
servisslimline
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brings back bad memories
reminds me of this a few years ago.
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reminds me of this a few years ago.
Beware - not for the faint hearted - this is painful viewing!
Was doing a trawl on Flickr to day, seeing what washery and dryery piccies people had posted, when i stumbled across pictures taken at an abandonned mine (Groverake Mine) near Rookhope in Weardale, UK. As is said by one of the photographers, it is amazing what gets left behind at industrial...
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liberator1509
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How sad...
What a shame to see two great machines in forgotten decay! I remember that Hoover so well - my Mum's best friend had one til the late 1980s - I'm sure Mathew would love to see it rescued! As for the 1509/05 (or maybe it is a 1509/01 without the interlock!) - I'd love to rescue it....
Gary - any idea of who would own the building now? I'm tempted to try a speculative email, but have no idea who to contact.
D
What a shame to see two great machines in forgotten decay! I remember that Hoover so well - my Mum's best friend had one til the late 1980s - I'm sure Mathew would love to see it rescued! As for the 1509/05 (or maybe it is a 1509/01 without the interlock!) - I'd love to rescue it....
Gary - any idea of who would own the building now? I'm tempted to try a speculative email, but have no idea who to contact.
D
Hello..
I came here after seeing the links on my site. I took one or two pictures of the hotpoint machine you are talking about.
I can confirm it's located on the 2nd or 3rd floor from memory. It was in a room titled 'Home Management' which always made me chuckle from a slightly sexist point of view when knowing this was a girls school. The school closed in 89 but was used by the art college into the 90's I believe. It's current owner is/was getting all sorts of trouble from the council over work that required doing to the building. I believe the council were taking him to court as they will foot the bill. Recently it's suffered further arson attacks and Vodafone removed their transmitters from the roof.
Wouldn't like to say how easy it would be to salvage it, but I reckon you could if you wanted to. I did have contact with someone who established contact with the current owner if it's of any use to you. (drop me an email)
I see quite a few old unloved machines doing what I do. Missed out on the ones at merthyr factory. Does anyone know what happened to them? I went to there a few days after the inital pictures and got caught! I went back earlier this year and they'd all gone.(I presume you probably saw them if not I'll dig out some pictures)
www.whateversleft.co.uk
I came here after seeing the links on my site. I took one or two pictures of the hotpoint machine you are talking about.
I can confirm it's located on the 2nd or 3rd floor from memory. It was in a room titled 'Home Management' which always made me chuckle from a slightly sexist point of view when knowing this was a girls school. The school closed in 89 but was used by the art college into the 90's I believe. It's current owner is/was getting all sorts of trouble from the council over work that required doing to the building. I believe the council were taking him to court as they will foot the bill. Recently it's suffered further arson attacks and Vodafone removed their transmitters from the roof.
Wouldn't like to say how easy it would be to salvage it, but I reckon you could if you wanted to. I did have contact with someone who established contact with the current owner if it's of any use to you. (drop me an email)
I see quite a few old unloved machines doing what I do. Missed out on the ones at merthyr factory. Does anyone know what happened to them? I went to there a few days after the inital pictures and got caught! I went back earlier this year and they'd all gone.(I presume you probably saw them if not I'll dig out some pictures)
Whatevers Left
Hotpoints
Hi Matt, will start a new thread about them then others can build on it for reference especially with the new Super Searchalator!!!
Morning Laundromat, certainly lots of agi`s and only the Hotpoints with the Spiralator
Hi Favorit, yes the 3kw heater is just whats needed to boilwash, although with Hot & Cold fill I never knew anyone that used them from cold, and most homes would dial the hot water in and just use the heater to do a hot whites programme, raising the temp from 60d to nr boiling...
Hi Matt, will start a new thread about them then others can build on it for reference especially with the new Super Searchalator!!!
Morning Laundromat, certainly lots of agi`s and only the Hotpoints with the Spiralator
Hi Favorit, yes the 3kw heater is just whats needed to boilwash, although with Hot & Cold fill I never knew anyone that used them from cold, and most homes would dial the hot water in and just use the heater to do a hot whites programme, raising the temp from 60d to nr boiling...
Washers Left behind
Hi Tumbles and welcome to our bit of cyberspace, bet you wondered what had happened when you saw all the links!!! me thinks the bandwidth went up overnight...the pic you posted was it before or after the first one in the thread?? was trying to establish from the urban pic if its all still there....nasty load of rubble all over it, and three storys up ugghhh, gonna need at least two men with trusses on that removal day!!
It would be great (or perhaps not for us preservers..LOL) to see any other appliance pics you have /or will come across and hear your experiences of the sites visited, in relation to Hoover the Merthyr machines are all safe together in storage awaiting a display feature.
Looking forward to seeing the pics, cheers, Mike
Hi Tumbles and welcome to our bit of cyberspace, bet you wondered what had happened when you saw all the links!!! me thinks the bandwidth went up overnight...the pic you posted was it before or after the first one in the thread?? was trying to establish from the urban pic if its all still there....nasty load of rubble all over it, and three storys up ugghhh, gonna need at least two men with trusses on that removal day!!
It would be great (or perhaps not for us preservers..LOL) to see any other appliance pics you have /or will come across and hear your experiences of the sites visited, in relation to Hoover the Merthyr machines are all safe together in storage awaiting a display feature.
Looking forward to seeing the pics, cheers, Mike
Washers
Thanks for the kind welcome. It's always interesting to follow the links back. Usually it's some metal band looking for an empty asylum to do a music video in so makes a change!
The pictures at the top of this thread were taken by another explorer. I believe they visited around mid January this year. So they are very much on site. I have looked through my original photos and can confirm it's on the second floor, room 203. I found one more picture of the hotpoint machine, in more recent pictures it looks like the rubble has been swept off it. It's a bit out of focus, I think I was going for the arty farty shot.
I'm sure I have lots of other pictures of machines, it's the sort of thing that typically gets left behind because they are so heavy! Plenty of commercial ones in hospitals but don't know if you'll find those so interesting?
Cheers, Tom
Thanks for the kind welcome. It's always interesting to follow the links back. Usually it's some metal band looking for an empty asylum to do a music video in so makes a change!
The pictures at the top of this thread were taken by another explorer. I believe they visited around mid January this year. So they are very much on site. I have looked through my original photos and can confirm it's on the second floor, room 203. I found one more picture of the hotpoint machine, in more recent pictures it looks like the rubble has been swept off it. It's a bit out of focus, I think I was going for the arty farty shot.
I'm sure I have lots of other pictures of machines, it's the sort of thing that typically gets left behind because they are so heavy! Plenty of commercial ones in hospitals but don't know if you'll find those so interesting?
Cheers, Tom
matchboxpaul
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Hi Tom
Thanks for your help and hopefully something will come of our enquiries. Fingers crossed!
At least, by knowing the room number, should anything come to fruition we wont need to waste too much time hunting room to room. Subject that is to them not being moved around the building!
Heres hoping and welcome to the site.
Cheers
paul
p.s below is what rustless 3236H version 1 machines look like
Thanks for your help and hopefully something will come of our enquiries. Fingers crossed!
At least, by knowing the room number, should anything come to fruition we wont need to waste too much time hunting room to room. Subject that is to them not being moved around the building!
Heres hoping and welcome to the site.
Cheers
paul
p.s below is what rustless 3236H version 1 machines look like
