The new board of trustees, appointed at the AGM in Oxford, headed to Esperanto House for their first weekend on the job. What greeted them was a nasty surprise:
It's no secret that the two sites of the former Wedgwood Memorial College have been a magnet for vandals and thieves since the College closed down in 2012. Esperanto House had largely escaped their attention, until it suffered two break-ins in 2022.
The vandals did enter Esperanto House but don't appear to have stolen anything. There's little of value in place there; artwork was removed after the first break-in, most of the library collection is with a firm of scanners as part of a digitisation project, and nearly all of the archive is held at an external storage facility.
They unsuccessfully attempted to gain access to the ground floor:
And left their hammer behind.
This is now with the police forensics team.
They made a point of smashing up other nearby windows and a garage door:
The incident is now in the hands of the local police force.
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