first post here go easy lol
The visit
First came across this place after a rumour from someone my friend was talking too. Whilst my friends did an initial visit, not yet every building and area of the site got explored. I will try my best to cover every area of this site, but its large so be warned there will be a lot of iPhone taken pictures
The more we explored this place, the more destruction and decay we found, with signs of heavy scrapping attempts to remove any wires in sight! Hanging from the ceiling and all. From what I've scoured around on the internet for, there seems to be no urbex or exploring documentation of this place until this post.
Please do give me feedback
@A-DOG loves his "What" signs
The history
Mynyddbach County Secondary School for Girls was built to the designs of H. T. Wykes and opened in June 1959. The school was designed as an upper and lower school, inked by a main entrance hall and large and small halls. The two halls were separated by a sliding folding partition an were capable of being thrown into one to provide a large meeting area. The middle school was later added, and linked with the existing buildings. The school was constructed with a steel frame and castellated beams carrying the floor loads. Windows and quickly-erected wall cladding, therefore, replaced load-bearing walls. In addition to being functional, this system gave the feeling of lightness associated with contemporary designs. Reflecting the new education system propelled by the 1944 Butler Education Act, Mynyddbach School included 19 classrooms, 5 laboratories, 4 domestic science rooms, 2 needlework rooms, 2 craft rooms, 2 art rooms, 2 libraries, and 2 gymnasia, together with an admin section and medical inspection room. Playing fields were sited to the north and west sides of the building, adjoining the common.
The all girls school (Mynyddbach) was closed in 2001 and was reformed into mixed-sex Daniel James Community School before being closed in 2012. The welsh section was named Tirdeunaw (occuiying the western part of the site until relocation into a new site, next to Ysgol Gyfun Bryntawe (November 2021)
The images
1. Main hallway of one of the big buildings
2. Another hall way
3. An old science room sitting, collecting dust.
4. A good view of how much the greenery has taken over (featuring smashed windows)
5. My friend climbing out of the pool after signing the wall
6. A front view of 2 of the big buildings (can you spot the alarms?)
7. A creepy looking hall
8. An upstairs view
9. Strolling threw more halls
10. The hanging wires and lack of roof tiles
11. Another creepy hall
12. Pool buildings canteen room, looking down a hall
13. The upstairs poolroom building halls
14. Room leading to the pool
15. Below is the view down from a water tower? its the tall metal box looking thing you can see from the road.
16. The pool itself
17. @A-DOG posting for the camera 18. Clambering around to another building
Hope you all enjoyed the terrible iPhone pictures
The visit
First came across this place after a rumour from someone my friend was talking too. Whilst my friends did an initial visit, not yet every building and area of the site got explored. I will try my best to cover every area of this site, but its large so be warned there will be a lot of iPhone taken pictures
The more we explored this place, the more destruction and decay we found, with signs of heavy scrapping attempts to remove any wires in sight! Hanging from the ceiling and all. From what I've scoured around on the internet for, there seems to be no urbex or exploring documentation of this place until this post.
Please do give me feedback
@A-DOG loves his "What" signs
The history
Mynyddbach County Secondary School for Girls was built to the designs of H. T. Wykes and opened in June 1959. The school was designed as an upper and lower school, inked by a main entrance hall and large and small halls. The two halls were separated by a sliding folding partition an were capable of being thrown into one to provide a large meeting area. The middle school was later added, and linked with the existing buildings. The school was constructed with a steel frame and castellated beams carrying the floor loads. Windows and quickly-erected wall cladding, therefore, replaced load-bearing walls. In addition to being functional, this system gave the feeling of lightness associated with contemporary designs. Reflecting the new education system propelled by the 1944 Butler Education Act, Mynyddbach School included 19 classrooms, 5 laboratories, 4 domestic science rooms, 2 needlework rooms, 2 craft rooms, 2 art rooms, 2 libraries, and 2 gymnasia, together with an admin section and medical inspection room. Playing fields were sited to the north and west sides of the building, adjoining the common.
The all girls school (Mynyddbach) was closed in 2001 and was reformed into mixed-sex Daniel James Community School before being closed in 2012. The welsh section was named Tirdeunaw (occuiying the western part of the site until relocation into a new site, next to Ysgol Gyfun Bryntawe (November 2021)
The images
1. Main hallway of one of the big buildings
2. Another hall way
3. An old science room sitting, collecting dust.
4. A good view of how much the greenery has taken over (featuring smashed windows)
5. My friend climbing out of the pool after signing the wall
6. A front view of 2 of the big buildings (can you spot the alarms?)
7. A creepy looking hall
8. An upstairs view
9. Strolling threw more halls
10. The hanging wires and lack of roof tiles
11. Another creepy hall
12. Pool buildings canteen room, looking down a hall
13. The upstairs poolroom building halls
14. Room leading to the pool
15. Below is the view down from a water tower? its the tall metal box looking thing you can see from the road.
17. @A-DOG posting for the camera 18. Clambering around to another building
Hope you all enjoyed the terrible iPhone pictures
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