Priority 7

The site closed a while ago after it moved to its new campus. Some further info shamelessly stolen from another intrepid explorers notes: A little background history.. Mid 1940s – The St Mary’s Road site is acquired by the Kettering Technical College. During the Second World War it had been used as a hostel by … Read more

Originally a private residence built in 1855 by the banker Edward Lloyd, it was sold after The Great War and turned into Bedgebury Girls Public School where it played host to myriad games of pattycake and hopscotch until finally closing in 1999 and reopening seconds later as a joyous little deathtrap for explorers like Mookster … Read more

Sir Malcolm Stewart bought the London Brick Company in the town in the 1920s. The site is due to close in 2008 as the owners, Hanson, cannot meet UK limits for sulphur dioxide emissions.[2] The four chimneys remaining were due to be demolished upon closure but these have since been listed for preservation of Bedfordshire’s … Read more

Brigstock Camp built 1925 and over the years was used for an Emigration Camp, an Army Camp, ATS and Land Army Camp, US Army Training School, and in 1960 Stewarts & Lloyds Steelworks purchased Brigstock Camp for £23,000 at an auction. One hundred people moved from Scotland to work at the Steelworks and used Brigstock … Read more