The Baverstock Academy is a large mixed secondary school and sixth form college located at the southern edge of Birmingham. The current school buildings can be traced back to 1969 when they were constructed as the ‘Maypole School’ and eventually became Baverstock in the early 80’s after several mergers. Due to its ‘outstanding’ sports facilities, it became one of the first schools to be granted ‘Specialist Sports College’ status in 2002 and gained ‘Academy’ status in 2013. The school eventually closed in August 2017 after poor Ofsted reports, money issues and dwindling pupil numbers – by the end there were less than 500 students, a far cry from its capacity of 1,330.
This one was brought to my attention by @Gsxrwayne so credit to him, certainly one I’d never heard of before. We were in the area so thought we’d swing by and see what happened. It’s a big place and took us a couple of hours to get around it, just a real shame it’s been smashed and tagged to shit by the local talent!
Before closure
And currently
Cafeteria
The 'Great Hall'
The light was weird in here as it was smashing it down with rain and really sunny at the same time
Ground floor gym
With another gym upstairs for good measure. Was hoping for a swimming pool somewhere but apparently not!
Science block
All the science classrooms were pretty stripped unfortunately
Science storerooms had plenty of stuff left behind, 99% of it smashed over the floor sadly
Fume cupboard
Art
And that was about it, thanks for looking.
This one was brought to my attention by @Gsxrwayne so credit to him, certainly one I’d never heard of before. We were in the area so thought we’d swing by and see what happened. It’s a big place and took us a couple of hours to get around it, just a real shame it’s been smashed and tagged to shit by the local talent!
Before closure
And currently
Cafeteria
The 'Great Hall'
The light was weird in here as it was smashing it down with rain and really sunny at the same time
Ground floor gym
With another gym upstairs for good measure. Was hoping for a swimming pool somewhere but apparently not!
Science block
All the science classrooms were pretty stripped unfortunately
Science storerooms had plenty of stuff left behind, 99% of it smashed over the floor sadly
Fume cupboard
Art
And that was about it, thanks for looking.
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