This School Has Been Abandoned & Left With Absolutely Everything Inside.. But Why? 

Keep hearing education authorities have no money but we leave buildings and equipment to rot like this and the power on to boot , good video Colin 👍🏻

Just found a BBC report about this school after a large fire engulfed about 25% of the 3 story building on 6th October 2022. The school was closed when the authority changed from a three-tier educational system (infant or junior, middle and upper) to a two-tier system (primary and secondary) in 2015. Earlier in 2022, the local Council announced plans to build a new 200-place school for children aged two to 19, with special educational needs on the site. Great video though, Colin... Keep up the great work! :)

Ooh school definitely wasn't my best years, i was bullied mercilessly 😅 that sick sunday feeling.. *shudders* Great video! Crazy how much has been left behind, such a sad waste of equipment. Vandalism is very sad.

It’s nice to see something different in your explored. The school reminds me of my daughters old school before knocking it down. Some of the stuff left behind could have been donated to another school or given to charity before being smash up. another great video Colin.

I live in kempston literally 5 mins away they are suppose to be turning it into a special needs school but all work has stopped recently for some reason,it's cool to see one of my favourite explorers in my home town awesome vid as usual 👍👍

I think a night visit would be properly scary, but make a wicked video. Something about abandoned schools, once full of laughter now falling silent. Amazing find and as you say, it is like they had to drop everything and leave. Unusual. People really need to stop vandalising and thrashing, I mean have some respect. Great video.

Your video just about sums up the neglect and decay of not only the UK’s education system but the country as a whole!

This is Robert Bruce school in Kempston. You must of filmed this quite a while ago coz I was down there last week. The place is completely unrecognizable now, due to building work going on. So sad to see that poor old owl 🦉 😢. I would of taken it away and buried it. Broke my heart ❤ seeing that.

What a waste of a school building. Looks relatively modern as well.

My old middle school. There between September 1981 and July 1985. Looks a little different in this video! Mr Selby was the headmaster in my time.

Always sad to see an abandoned school. Stupid vandals, idiots. Ben scared me too Colin, glad you got your own back on him. I think its haunted or could be the wind. Who knows? Great explore. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Hi Colin another great video,what a shame and a waste.All that equipment which could have been saved and used in other schools.Just seems crazy in this day and age when money is so short. But apart from that your usual great video with good humour and commentary.Still cannot understand the idiots who go around vandalizing these places. Already looking forward to next weeks.Take care.😀

No it wasn't a safe it was a kiln used in pottery classes. Good video brought back happy days. Thank You beverley .

This was a fun video. You two guys are much braver than me. I would have ran out as soon as I heard any noise. 😂 I can’t believe they leave so much behind. It seems like they could sell or donate so much. I love when y’all go exploring together. You both have great channels. 👍

Great video of you guys exploring Robert Bruce Middle School. Not to long ago some people set part of the school on fire, alot of teenagers have tried to explore it from what Ive heard (hence the state of it). (Note for anyone wanting to explore this school) Not sure when this was recorded, but the police sometimes come to this school with police dogs and stop people exploring because its "too dangerous".

Can't believe why many youths or anyone think its good to trash good stuff, I know it sounds bad but"! if I found an abandoned property I'd be taking the good stuff just to stop this kind of thing happing to good items that is worth saving..

Good walk around Colin ,weird what happened to your phone and something seems to remain there ,creepy in that the whole place has been left as if all the kids just left ....will you look at going back night time walk ? ...👍

School falling apart that’s probably where the noises are coming from, very good explore Colin not for poor Ben though with you jumping out on him hahahaha x would be good for a revisit on a night x stay safe x

The school was closed when the authority changed from a three-tier educational system (infant or junior, middle and upper) to a two-tier system (primary and secondary) in 2015

11:14 that owl was a Tawny owl. I rescue owls. Great video, thanks guys!,😊

Loved this Colin, looks like you and Ben were back at school wiv the fun you was having, school was amazing to see and the paranormal goings-on it's mad 🙏❤️👻l

What a bloody waste !!!!

Robert Bruce middle school in Kempston was there the year it shut !!!!

I believe the work / planning permissions have stopped since the RAAC enquiry was released, it's not safe and the government/ council would be wasting money. If they demolish the site they might want to build more houses due to the housing crisis.

The thing you misidentified as a safe is in fact, a kiln for baking pottery.

I hated school and couldn’t wait to leave, never once have I wished I was back there, getting near to retiring age I now teach new plumbers, so I suppose I am back in a way.

The labour cost of removing the stuff is probably too similar to the value of the stuff? And as you allude to there are safeguarding issues with named photographs?

My little fellow, recently joined A middle school ( public school)AND many Children were in waiting list , because of shortage of Schools? AND here we see- A full fledged School ,going waste( turning into ruins )??😠

Lol….Scooby Doo, back to the Mystery Machine!🤣🤣🤣🤔Or it wasn’t fixed in both sides properly hence catapulted out cos of the spring load…..?….🤣🤣🤪. Madness how they left so much that could have helped other schools too….sad. Great stuff gents!

The way nature reclaims land is incredible

Funny 😂 Colin playing tricks on your buddy ben 😂 im sure he will get his comins back on you Colin , another great video 😎👍

A great video as always. It was unreal how much stuff was left there. It was eerie. But I loved the way you made Ben jump. Several times 😂

I don’t know if you notice it but when you left the room with the thing that you thought was a safe which was a heater or warmer I am sure there was a sound that sounded like a woman saying mark, what made me hear was she was calling my name which is Mark, go back and have a listen. 👍

Tell you what that school looks in better shape compared to my school which has been closed since 2015

Hi Colin and Ben, hope your doing good. That was a cool video. I can't believe all that band equipment is just going to waste, along with all that furniture they could donate to other schools in need. Such a shame. Take care and stay safe.

I went to this school from 86-90, and was able to visit as part of an organised group back in 2017. This is exactly as it was then - books, ties, artwork and wall displays all left exactly where they were on the last day the school was open. All very eerie. It has been used by the police for training purposes since it closed, but they have left it 'as is'. From what I recall more recently the school was not maintained and was falling into disrepair while it was still open to pupils resulting in it being closed. As an ex-pupil, it's very sad to see that it that it has been abandoned. As a parent to 2 children at a nearby secondary which is proposed to be closed and merged with another local school to save money, it annoys me that this school was closed back in the day during Bedfordshire's transition from a 3 tier to 2 tier education system. P.S. The camera flying off the tripod in the science room might have been Mr Kramer's ghost - he taught in there back in the day...

That school might have spirits of past teachers who have past away before it shut down that still room the halls on the way back to class from some where and it sucks seeing a old usable building left to rot away like that with all the stuff left and it seems like they whould sell some of that stuff to make some of their money back

The noises i think are birds flying inside the building and not being able to find the way out. The barn owl is proof of that.

More information about this school for anyone is interested. The school is called Robert Bruce Middle School which is in Bedford, they closed and abandoned it in 2016 and the council were supposed to be demolishing it or something to create a SEN school on the land instead but don’t seem like they hadn’t gotten round to it. From the video

Built in the late 60s to 1970s it it will have asbestos materials and maybe a RAAC roof. It looks like a very similar school building I went to that was demolished. I bet this one had the same smell as well.

According to the news, Robert Bruce Middle School in Kempston, Bedfordshire, UK was closed in 2017 and has been derelict since then 1. However, on October 6th, 2022, a fierce fire broke out in the derelict school 12. The fire engulfed about 25% of the three-story building 2. Nine crews were called to the scene to tackle the blaze 2. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Robert Bruce Middle School in Bedford closed down due to financial viability of its future.

It’s impressive that the power is still working in that place. Also I wonder how much the bill would cost 😂

18:13 I have that same exact yamaha keyboard at my house. The one above the other

Bet this was an overreaction to Asbestos .. There is a Peacocks on my Highstreet that still has the Christmas windows and all the old stock from December 2021 because everyone had to leave and the building sealed

RIP Owl! Must of been a recent death as didn't see any sign of decomposition, also great video!

Thank you for you're great explores,binge watch them sometimes as well.👌👍

Power kept on for safety?

Brilliant school. Big up the RB massive. Some good some bad memories. I was a pupil from 81. Was a middle school then so aged 9-13

My daughter left at the end of Yr6 to go to a different school, Robert Bruce Middle School was closed down the year after so must have been about 8 years ago or so. The head got into all sorts of trouble for fudging exam results, they failed an Ofsted inspection, the buildings themselves were in very poor condition whilst it was still open and as Bedfordshire Borough Council were moving to the two tier education system it was deemed that it would be too costly to refurbish it and rebrand it. There were/are plans for it to be turned into a SEND school but during the years since its closure its mostly been used for training police dogs

I'm a die hard music fan and now musician. It pains me to see drums and keyboards like that. I was going to say someone should take them and donate them to a school or high school bcs we never had anything like that at the schools I attended due to lack of funds. But, reading some of these comments it seems someone's going to come back to this building and redo it. I hope they do the right thing by those instruments though.

Hi mate, please keep doing what you do. You along with Danny Dyer are my heroes. Bx

This reminds of the school they used in the black mirror episode with the pig, wonder if their the same?

Been watching your video clips for a while now, love them , keep them coming 👍👍👍

Also they left it open in the hope's someone would burn it down and trash it saving them money by demoliishing it anyway hope you popped to Sainsbury's after lol 😂😂

Great video , sad to see its abandoned as it could be turned into a college or apartments

looks like an oven for clay pottery

My blood boils at the damage some little shits have done to this place 🤬 scandalous that this place has been left to rot like this. It looks like this school could still be open really really sad and I hope it gets sorted fast 🙏🙏🙏

Doesn’t quite make sense… surely the light bulbs/LEDs would of packed in after being left switched on for a long period of time….

I believe it closed in 2007 when it became an academy and had a fresh start in new buildings

Another great upload, Colin. So sad to see the Buildings/Grounds in that condition, and all that Equipment left behind, too.

Such senseless destruction

Thanks for awesome video I enjoyed watching

Bad what’s left behind it will get get vandalised or set on fire and could equip another school that needs it

They could revamp that into a homeless centre

Neat to watch these videos from the U.K.

Really enjoyed this

I went to school here! Robert Bruce Middle School in Kempston, Bedford.

After working for local authorities for many years they will never take anything from a building just up sticks and move on they dont want to spend money clearing building and sell as good video look forward to the next one

Wow! Such an amazing explore. Its crazy how all these things are left. Really enjoyed watching. 😮😊👍

Can you come to bidford on Avon and explore the Never lived in mouldy houses I can meet u there on weekends

Makes you think who's paying for the electricity. Another great video

If this was in Finland I could guess the story... Something was noticed in the air after student's and teachers start to have respiratory symptoms (mold, fine particles, asbestos) so they are quickly moved to temporary space taking just bare minimum essentials. But then when the investigation for the problem continues it turns out that it's too expensive to fix and the school is left completely as is as the stuff cannot even be sold as it's contaminated with whatever was in the air in the first place....

This is nice change of building to your usual explores. Did that drop get Colin on the way in and Ben on the way out? If the building could, it must have been laughing at you both! 😂

Well, you asked why... "On 1st April 2009 Bedfordshire County Council was abolished. Its functions in the north of the county were taken over by Bedford Borough Council. This was a district, or second tier, authority which was upgraded to a unitary council with both first and second tier responsibilities - a county and district council rolled into one. It this became Kempston’s local education authority. At the time of writing [2013] there is a debate about the future of middle schools and whether they should continue or whether schools should revert to the pre-1970s model of just two types of school - primary and secondary." The school was closed on August 31, 2016 and the GOV.UK site lists the reason as "merger", which means that middle schools are no longer a thing in Kempston.

Mold? RAAC? Fire safety issues?

You are deffo from Portsmouth i see your stickers everywhere and had a look in the barclays bank lol😊

Great video. Anyone know the story behind the abandonment?

18:11 sad to see they destroyed those. Both that one and the one above the other on the left side are the same disgusting why they would destroy them. Absolutely sickening too bad you couldn't take them and get them restored by someone instead of leaving them there to fully be nothing

It is always a pleasure to watch these but there's also a sadness to them as well. I'm very pleased to see you walk around this school it's a very similar architecture to mine which was very sadly demolished

Have you any idea when it was abandoned, it's something that I find to get my head around why do they just walk out and leave so much stuff behind, was it primary or high school

I was waiting for Ben to scare you back, but it never happened. Maybe he was the secret poltergeist all along?!

Great video watch this Sunday the 10th of September 23rd

The Authority are guilty of "Fly tipping" all the rubbish left behind!

Ohhhh, those GCSE revision books....I don't miss them at all 😳

So much land for developers i would imagine.

Nice Colin. I have to ask, what causes schools and colleges to close? These institutions are vital to society, couldn’t they salvage it?

lovely building..2 houses outside..ask them what happened

What absolute shame and a waste! Of a school x

I was just doing a bit of light homework on this school. Something that wasn’t mentioned in the comments yet is how badly the school did in the the ofsted inspection. Overall score: Inadequate, “this school has serious weaknesses”. Looks like they took the opportunity when they changed the tier system to just close and start from scratch.

My GUESS is that it shut down during Covid (which was an emergency)...one day we were in school, the next we were not. We were not even given the chance to go in and get our belongings out for quite some time. I live in the states (NYS), at least that's the way it was here. Many schools didn't have the ability to open back up.....the just chained everything up and thst was it. Never to be open again...well...unless it was purchased by another, but most were not. They stand full of stuff and empty of people. A sad waste for sure.😢

Makes you ask why do these places get trashed, That little room was the bad boys room. I remember them well, until I was asked to leave and don't come back.

If this went the way the school, my mam cleaned for, it was a private school. The owner said it was closing down, when they kids went back in the September, With in that time, half of the pupils went to other schools, I think by the end of the year, some classes which used to have 30 pupils in, ended up down to about 3 to 5 pupils in. Anything that was valuable was literally auctioned off with in a matter of weeks of closure, so this could have gone the same way, and what is left behind just goes with the building. one of old secondary schools, which was practically a health hazard, they got practically everything from another secondary school, that closed down a couple of years before my time there, all the computers etc, even a few teachers transferred over a long with some of the pupils at the time. When they decided to knock down the health hazard that was supposed to be a school, the youth centre was the 1st to go, and they just bull dozed that with everything still in it. So i suspect that's what will happen here. Shame though, as it looks like its still in good condition. Most schools like that, were converted in to colleges, so that could have been still reused as one, Just gut it and refit it. We did have 3 colleges that were once former schools. Two were like this another one is a listed building, sadly though the two that were like this sort of style of building were closed down and flattened, the other one they couldn't touch it due to it been a listed building, so they blew a lot more money into it. You may be wondering what came of the school my mam cleaned, Well one part of it which was the seniors, was converted into flats, and a Hotel, which are listed buildings, the hotel part was put up for sale, for 1 million, about 2 months ago. The other part the juniors and younger was sold off, to special needs, which is one of those buildings was built around the late 70s early 80s. That was revamped in side and another block added to it. Two years before the building my mam cleaned, was closed. I got the pleasure in helping my mam collect a few things, and i got the pleasure of a walk around inside, and it really took me back to the early 90s. It really did remind me of my old primary school, i did happen to see a very old computer desk that once would have housed a BBC computer. BBC computer was long, well this was 10 years ago, and those were getting binned off in the mid 90s, the health hazard i was in, were chucking those in 1999/ 2000.

Looks like the Janitor's ghost is around there

that was fun!

We had regular days off in my South London school due to aspestos removal / drilling... You guys should wear masks in older buildings as aspestos looks like dust. That looks a great location to make a movie😂

and meanwhile they cant afford to fix schools with concrete cpllapse and like you say alot of this stuff couldve been tranfered to other schools

Where is this school? Surely it can be “saved”?! It’s more messy than wrecked. Why has it been abandoned? Where are the pupils? Why is the power still on? Can anyone answer these question?

The waste here is absolutely sickening. Furniture and equipment in good condition, some brand new, left to rot, and be vandalised. I am speechless that the absolute morons in charge of this site could not be bothered to reuse the items, or give them away. I thought this was another country but of course it's good old UK. Electricity left on for good measure.

Colin hi I'm a big fan I've just sent a message to you after what happened with your camera and you said it was firmly in the grip and it just came out I think the school's haunted

Errr, can we talk about the guy standing in the gymnasium?