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My original old school is burning down tonight

Lonemagpie

Lonemagpie

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My dad called to say East Plean Primary is in flames, and the roof has collapsed. (Hm, and the night after Bonfire night... coincidence? And a saturday when nobody's working there to leave something turned on? Apparently there's a crime unit there so we can probably call it neds + fireworks)

I have no real feelings about it as an alma mater, but I do hope the structure is reparable purely on the grounds that it's a historic 1874 building - it'd be a fucking crime to burn it down. I mean, beyond arson generally being against the law... You know what I mean, right?
 
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Someone set one of our school blocks on fire when I was in grade 7. We were told not to turn up to school the following day. The school block that burnt contained 6 classrooms, the gym, the main office, the principal's office, and the book sales room.
 
I know what you mean. They demolished my high school (which, dating from the 1930s, was pretty historic in my hometown) to make way for a casino parking lot. It was a real shame.

I feel its absence every time I go back.
 
join the club lol. i've gone to four different schools in my life, three of the have burned down. and no, not by me and not when i went there.
 
Several people actually tried to burn my high school down, and that's just during the four years I went there. But it was so solidly-built that there was no serious damage. My sophomore year the English office caught on fire. The next day the only evidence (besides the office being trashed) was some charring on the walls outside the doors.

That place could have survived a hydrogen bomb.
 
It’s a shame when that happens to a building of cultural or historic value. None of my schools ever had a fire, but one night a restaurant in my neighborhood burned to the ground. I don't know if there was an investigation or if any criminal charges were brought, but it could well have been a bit of “Italian lightning.”
 
I know how you feel. Both of my elementary schools, of which I have voluminous memories and milestones, were razed to make room for, well, nothing. It's just empty space in both, and both were less than 50 years old. They were torn down because they were apparently "too expensive for upkeep" even though the city spends money like a drunken sailor on city buildings and downtown renovations where very few businesses exist.
 
My high school hasn't been torn down, but they just finished a new high school that students started going to this semester. So now the old high school I went to sits empty. It'll probably be torn down or turned into something else. Oh the mamories.
 
I live near a city where the "people" like starting fires. It's an old run down building that will make way for a new up to date one that will better suite the area. I have watched 150 year old mills burn down. Oh well, it's just a building. My grandparents wedding church burnt to the ground, along with a city block. It sucks, but it's just a shitty biulding.

I funny story. A coach at my high school burnt down the brand new locker room after he lite a candle to cover the smell of pot and sex.
 
bigdaddy said:
. . .I funny story. A coach at my high school burnt down the brand new locker room after he lite a candle to cover the smell of pot and sex.
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Overkill much? Reminds me of Charles Lamb's “A Dissertation on Roast Pig.”

A stick of incense would have been safer.
 
scotpens said:
bigdaddy said:
. . .I funny story. A coach at my high school burnt down the brand new locker room after he lite a candle to cover the smell of pot and sex.
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Overkill much? Reminds me of Charles Lamb's “A Dissertation on Roast Pig.”

A stick of incense would have been safer.
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True, but candles burn longer and he smokers a pot of pot and fucked a lot of students.

He was the wrestling coach and he used it to "wrestle" students. He was also fucking some important people because within two years of burning part of the school down he became vp of a high school one town over


What makes this biulding historic? What happened that makes the biulding special?
 
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Lonemagpie said:
There's a news story with a picture here:
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/207299-east-plean-primary-badly-damaged-by-fire/

Roof collapsed, inside just a shell... So much for a historic building put up in 1874...
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Just read it was one of the schools that managed, to get refurbished,Hope the council had the place properly insured and that they rebuild it properly.
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Yep, it *was* neds that did it- Three of them, shoving straw through any openings first, to make sure the fire really took. One's been arrested so far.

Of course the question now is whether the building's reparable, whether repairing or replacing it is affordable, or whether it'll just be "fuck it, we'll bus them all to Bannockburn from now on."
 
Lonemagpie said:
Serial thread killer said:
Lonemagpie said:
There's a news story with a picture here:
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/207299-east-plean-primary-badly-damaged-by-fire/

Roof collapsed, inside just a shell... So much for a historic building put up in 1874...
Click to expand...

Just read it was one of the schools that managed, to get refurbished,Hope the council had the place properly insured and that they rebuild it properly.
Click to expand...

Yep, it *was* neds that did it- Three of them, shoving straw through any openings first, to make sure the fire really took. One's been arrested so far.

Of course the question now is whether the building's reparable, whether repairing or replacing it is affordable, or whether it'll just be "fuck it, we'll bus them all to Bannockburn from now on."
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Does neds mean yob?
How old where the wankers who set fire to the school?
 
My elementary school got turned into an Office Building. It's almost a fate worse than destruction. That's at least dramatic. It now just seems dead and lifeless.

Of course, it was a 1914 stone building that far outgrew its original intended use. I'm pretty sure the gym was a glorified walk-in closet. So I guess it no longer makes sense to have it as a school.
 
None of my schools have burned down, but a place of work did a few years ago. I worked for a small company doing plastic fabrication. They also made log-style furniture. I showed up for work one morning and the whole warehouse was burned down. It was some problem with the furnace. It took them a while to get the gas main shut off and the building was full of lumber, so you can imagine how big the fire was. My bosses father, a dermatologist, also has his office in the building, and all of his patients medical records were stored in a large wooden filing cabinet. Amazingly, it was only scorched and all the records were fine.
 
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