Perth's Abandoned Buildings - Campus of Death

An entire campus, abandoned for years, in the middle of Perth's northern suburbs. A restaurant, library, lecture theatre, scores of classrooms and other buildings. VCR's, band-saw with the wood-shavings still on, film projectors, electronic equipment, cash, and miscellaneous office furnishings. A state of suspended animation - everyone just got up and left. Won't somebody think of the children?



This was the library. Ironically, interior design students now travel back to this site to see how it should be done.

The dining room - where students would serve up meals prepared in the extensive kitchen facilities. Plenty of industrial, 120cm, stainless steel, cast iron hob, gas ovens still on-site (BYO trailer). Top left, there is a row of windows. They are actually the outside of an interior upper-level tunnel, a dark passage joining two second floor plant-rooms. Put me down for the first game of laser-tag.

Lecture theatre. Have you seen Animal House recently? This place was like Delta House fraternity had taken over the entire Faber College campus. A little less Douglas Neidermyer, Sergeant at Arms, and a little more Bluto Blutasrsky, alcoholic, is exactly what Perth needs.

One of the many classrooms. With this many rooms, the interior decoration currently being undertaken is a huge job, and very much a work in progress.

The lab. Not a griffin beaker, volumetric flask, or serological pipette to be seen. In other unrelated news, Perth's 50th meth-lab was busted this week.

Get those ovens, they are flying out the door.

The main classroom block was three levels high. Clearly, the decorators had really put in some quality time on this part of the campus over the last few years, and the results are showing. A recent survey of ex-students showed that (87.6%) thought the campus looked better now.

Since the demise of the Atlantis Marine Park, the northern suburbs of Perth have been sorely missing a tourist attraction they can call their own. Hillary's Marina tried, and failed. Burns Beach caravan park, prior to recent urban sprawl, had all the right elements. Dizzy Lamb Park, had it been left to develop into the abandoned-zombie-land it was always destined to be, would have made the grade (these things don't happen over-night). However, as it stands, this is quite simply the only place north of Walcott St that can really lay claim to being one of Perth's truly iconic tourist attractions.