When one pulls up, one does not know what to expect, this looked inviting, just outside the town centre.
Stop taking the piss. that is far too modern to be a DERP: what I wanted was just round the corner, just past a family home complete with noisy kids on a fucking trampoline, dad mowing the lawn, and mum doing what mums do on a warm sunny summer afternoon. Sitting reading imbibing alcohol.
Nonchalantly I walk past as though I have every right to be here.
Urbex Rule 164: blend in with confidence.
Constructed in 1851 this manor house was owned by several different families, until when in 1919 it was seized by the government of the newly formed Estonian Republic.
The mansion was then, until 1991, used as a state orphanage run by the Estonian red Cross.
Extensions were added during the 1970's, to form a school for both children from the orphanage as well as the surrounding area
The orphanage and school closed in the mid 1990's and the old manor virtually destroyed by fire in 2001.
This was a fail; I wandered round the old buildings, twice, but there was no way in, not even "a loose" window board.
And I'm sure our currently friendly family might change their demeanour if I started to accidentally "fall" against a door that may be fragile.
There would be nothing of interest in the old manor, but i am sure there would be treasure in the newer parts, I guess I will never know.
Waving and smiling as I left, my friendliness was reciprocated, I wonder if they were muttering
"Another one of those pesky trespassers"
Vintage photographs, (SOURCE)[https://2020.muinsuskaitsepaevad.ee]