Please Sir, can we knock the school down?

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Please Sir, can we knock the school down?

Image: © Chris Taken: 12 Oct 2012

You can, but you may not! Though incredibly, the Council wanted to do just that, until it realised it could not afford to. So now it has let the scrub grow in front of it to try to cover the shame of the grass growing in the gutters. Leave it any longer, and there would be no photographs possible.

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