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Inside one abandoned primary school, its walls are still decorated with brightly coloured children's artwork, ten years after it shut.
Haunting images of one school capture the works left over by the last students to walk its halls.
The Manselton Primary School, in Swansea, shows childhoods left long behind.
Walls are covered in the student’s artworks, including star of the week charts, through the brightly decorated rooms that were left to rot once the children never returned.
There are also photographs of open days and past school swim teams, discarded across the floor.
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These images were captured by urban explorer Daniel Sims.
A number of the walls are still decorated with bright colourful artwork from past students (mediadrumimages/BeardedReality)Daniel, known as Beardedreality on Youtube and Instagram, captured the images in Swansea, South Wales.
It shows brightly decorated walls, including one emblazoned with colourful paintings of aliens around a washing line, with the words "Aliens love underpants".
Another shows an intricately made learning tree, and even a few leftover dolls were snapped.
The school was shut down in 2012, after over a century of serving the local community (mediadrumimages/BeardedReality)
Students and staff left behind dolls in the now abandoned school (mediadrumimages/BeardedReality)School papers cover the floor and in some places the ceiling has even fallen through.
The school served its local community for over a century before it was shut down and abandoned in 2012.
Daniel said: "I was looking for possible abandoned locations in the South of Wales when I came across an article about the school having closed down,".
A fallen down peg system for coats in the dinosaur room of the school (mediadrumimages/BeardedReality)He added: "When we saw the first nursery area we were blown away seeing everything not damaged apart from the doors and seeing all the amazing kids art left behind which was sad and amazing to see.”
The Grade II listed building was first built in 1900, over a hundred-and-ten years later, following its closure, it was sold at auction by Swansea Council for £235,000, in 2016.
Eton Property Management, based out of Northampton, now owns the empty school building and had planned to convert it into housing, but ran into some problems.
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In some places the ceiling has fallen down in the school (mediadrumimages/BeardedReality)On August 30, 2016, they lodged a pre-planning application to convert it into 62 residential units.
But a number of objections were lodged, throwing its future into disarray.
Daniel continued: ""Before the primary school it was an infant school and before that it was part of Pentrehafod Comprehensive and prior to that it was a boys and girls school.
Over ten years since the last student studied at the school, their artwork remains bright and colourful on its walls (mediadrumimages/BeardedReality)"The school had two sections, a nursery section which was small and was wide open due to vandalism, and then the main primary school which was huge we accessed through some open smashed-out windows.
"The exploration itself was very relaxed and chilled but slightly spooky as going through massive buildings such as these and then hearing noises throughout the building can make you wonder if you are alone or not.
"With places like this I love the massive spaces and seeing what is actually left behind and what the current state of the place is like.
Two chairs sit vacant in the middle of one of the abandoned classrooms (mediadrumimages/BeardedReality)"It is always interesting to see the areas behind the scenes of places like these to see what the people who were managing the place got up to."