This was a quick fly by visit to Harold Wood purely for the famous morgue.
Visited with, wait for it... Skeleton Key, Priority 7, Trog, Wevsky, Silver Rainbow, Space Invader, Obscurity and a non member called Ben. Yup 9 of us in a morgue, tripods everywhere all getting in the way of each others...
Harperbury Hospital opened as Hangars Certified Institution in 1925 and was known as Middlesex Colony until 1949.
The original hospital has now closed, although some facilities remain on the site. The following comes from the 1937 Kelly's Directory:
"The Middlesex Colony, begun in 1929, was...
Visited with Wevsky and Space Invader
Ive found a little history on St Johns mainly after reading bits on various sites across the web and other reports gleaned from various other forums.
St Johns Hospital built originally in 1837 as an infirmary to a local workhouse, had various bits "added"...
After seeing a few reports on other forums recently, myself and obscurity decided to take a trip to Essex to check the place out.
St Johns Hospital closed in November 2010 when services located to the nearby Broomfield hospital in a £140 million new wing. It used to be the Trust's main...
St.Johns's Hospital Chelmsford
Visited with Skeleton Key, Tstranger1066 and Priority 7
The doors of St John's Hospital – where half of Chelmsford's population was born – swing shut for the final time on November 18th, 2010, marking the end of a vast chapter in the town's history.
Nurses who...
Went out on a "Hospital" day with Mr Skeleton Key.
Started out at Highwood in Brentwood and then ended up here
Harold Wood Hospital
History
I'm sure that you may have read this before but here goes............
The hospital was opened in 1909 by West Ham County Borough council, as the Grange...
Headed up here a couple of weeks back with Frosty and Obscurity. Cheers to obscurity for driving :thumb
Was a strange one this, as we fully expected to bump into a security bod or someone at any time, but the site was strangely deserted. Quite a bit more damage inside than previous reports...
I visited this hospital in December 2010 and enjoyed it so much that I returned in January 2011 to explore some more!!
Highwood Hospital was designed by Charles and William Henman who were commissioned by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to provide medical and
social conditions for poor children...
Right after a late night doing a revisit to a local underground section i was up at six am awaiting obs to arrive, who bless him brought me some liquid refreshment to get me going!We Then picked Knox up and set out for runwell.The place is huge..entrance thx too professor fink for some useful...
Right quick write up as its late and im knackered.This isnt where we started off intending to do,but due to a no go situation we went here ,old kids hospital been derelict a long time but it was better than nothing..AND i trod on a floor board with a rusty nail i may well lose my foot..nah i...
Visited here in early May with Frosty.
History 'borrowed' from wikipedia. . . .
This was quite an explore, as this building is not the easiest place to explore, but it was well worth it. :)
Before visiting the main Hospital building, we first found the boiler house.
And then found...
As part of the 'stop talking about doing stuff, and actually go and do it' initiative, I Visited this place with DesertionPhotography.
Atkinson Morley Hospital was established on its present site in 1869 and closed in 2003. It was noteable as being the first place in the UK to have a CT scanner...
I wasn't going to bother with a report, but I think I had just about enough photos to make it worthwhile, so may as well. Being very bored at the weekend, myself, Frosty and Obscurity decided to take ourselves off here to have a looksie. It was also the first exploring outing of the new car, the...
Site Name:
Leybourne Grange Hospital
Location:
Near Maidstone
Status:
Disused and trashed
Visted with:
Fortknox0 and my misses
Equipment used:
Nikon D90 w/18-105 VR lens, 3D maggy.
Date:
Feb 2010
History:
Located beside the M20 near Maidstone, sits a large 270 acre plot of land...