A deserted village?
WITH boarded up windows, empty streets and derelict houses, this abandoned village looks like something from a ghost story....and it's certainly caused quite a stir. The spooky settlement is actually the site of the old Eastmoor school in Adel, Leeds, which first opened in 1857 as the Leeds Reformatory for Boys, later becoming Eastmoor Approved School. Ghosts are believed to haunt the settlement, which lies next to the new Eastmoor Secure Unit, and the village is plagued by vandals, burglars and arsonists.
Things that have been said?
"In the 19th century, a child under 14 could be sent to a place like Eastmoor for begging, wandering, consorting with thieves and prostitution. In more modern times it became the Eastmoor approved school and housed more dangerous criminals. One of Jamie Bulger's killers, Jon Venables, apparently spent time there in the 1990s. As time went on, the site grew, and became a self-contained village. Some of the buildings are still littered with clothes and toys, which gives the whole place a really eerie feel.”
“The story goes that there was a teacher there when Ii was a private school and he murdered students by drowning them in the swimming pool, no idea if it’s true...”
The other buildings include staff housing and a laundry, as well as residential and education blocks, one of which was used to film a fire scene for ITV1 hospital drama The Royal. (Part of the education block was mocked up to look like a factory. The episode featured a major fire and the burnt out buildings were a useful backdrop.)
The "ghost town" is owned by Leeds City Council, who intend to sell the site to make way for a new housing development although the chapel, which was used as a gym, will remain.
A Leeds City Council spokeswoman said: "We have agreed a sale of the land to Barratts, subject to the granting of planning consent, which has been approved in principle by the council, and subject to numerous conditions and the signing of a section 106 agreement."
6th September 2007. Application 07/03001/FU - Laying out of Access Road and the erection of 68 Houses with Landscaping, former Eastmoor School, Tile Lane, Adel.
On 21 February 2008, following the comments made by the Panel of the Adel Association, revisions had been made to the scheme which included an amended layout, revisions to siting and design of the affordable housing, retention of the chapel building, reuse of materials within the site, the removal of railings from the edge of the village green and the retention of the Blue Cedar tree on Tile Lane. To address the noise issues from the air extraction/ventilation of the neighbouring secure unit, a 2m high acoustic fence was being proposed, with details of the boundary treatment being conditioned.
http://workhouses.org.uk/IS-Leeds/
http://wikimapia.org/4991174/Adel-Abandoned-Haunted-Village
Let's keep an eye on the Adel Association for developments:
http://adelassociation.org.uk/joomla16/
Things that have been said?
"In the 19th century, a child under 14 could be sent to a place like Eastmoor for begging, wandering, consorting with thieves and prostitution. In more modern times it became the Eastmoor approved school and housed more dangerous criminals. One of Jamie Bulger's killers, Jon Venables, apparently spent time there in the 1990s. As time went on, the site grew, and became a self-contained village. Some of the buildings are still littered with clothes and toys, which gives the whole place a really eerie feel.”
“The story goes that there was a teacher there when Ii was a private school and he murdered students by drowning them in the swimming pool, no idea if it’s true...”
The other buildings include staff housing and a laundry, as well as residential and education blocks, one of which was used to film a fire scene for ITV1 hospital drama The Royal. (Part of the education block was mocked up to look like a factory. The episode featured a major fire and the burnt out buildings were a useful backdrop.)
The "ghost town" is owned by Leeds City Council, who intend to sell the site to make way for a new housing development although the chapel, which was used as a gym, will remain.
A Leeds City Council spokeswoman said: "We have agreed a sale of the land to Barratts, subject to the granting of planning consent, which has been approved in principle by the council, and subject to numerous conditions and the signing of a section 106 agreement."
6th September 2007. Application 07/03001/FU - Laying out of Access Road and the erection of 68 Houses with Landscaping, former Eastmoor School, Tile Lane, Adel.
On 21 February 2008, following the comments made by the Panel of the Adel Association, revisions had been made to the scheme which included an amended layout, revisions to siting and design of the affordable housing, retention of the chapel building, reuse of materials within the site, the removal of railings from the edge of the village green and the retention of the Blue Cedar tree on Tile Lane. To address the noise issues from the air extraction/ventilation of the neighbouring secure unit, a 2m high acoustic fence was being proposed, with details of the boundary treatment being conditioned.
http://workhouses.org.uk/IS-Leeds/
http://wikimapia.org/4991174/Adel-Abandoned-Haunted-Village
Let's keep an eye on the Adel Association for developments:
http://adelassociation.org.uk/joomla16/
Deserted village in Leeds....
Our original visit 7th November 2010...
my photos are mixed in with some borrowed from Google Earth/Street Google
for comparison of how much has already been pulled down.
my photos are mixed in with some borrowed from Google Earth/Street Google
for comparison of how much has already been pulled down.
Updated photos!
Visited on 15th July 2012. The barricade fencing has now been removed allowing people to wander freely around and take photos, no harm in that. All the windows and doors have been made secure with steel sheets bolted to the walls with rivets. The only current damage now seems to be graffiti which is a shame. In general though, not looking too shabby considering..
(Unfortunately the windows have had to be secured so much due to smack heads, arsonists and tile/lead/copper thieves, one of which tried to run down my friend's dad (still a resident) in a van and then succeeded to knock over an elderly lady when escaping the police.)
Visited on 15th July 2012. The barricade fencing has now been removed allowing people to wander freely around and take photos, no harm in that. All the windows and doors have been made secure with steel sheets bolted to the walls with rivets. The only current damage now seems to be graffiti which is a shame. In general though, not looking too shabby considering..
(Unfortunately the windows have had to be secured so much due to smack heads, arsonists and tile/lead/copper thieves, one of which tried to run down my friend's dad (still a resident) in a van and then succeeded to knock over an elderly lady when escaping the police.)