st cleveland st hospital [Permission visit] circa 2012

[shaddam]

The second site i ever explored in London after meeting the first splorer i ever met on the same night!,

st cleveland was a work house for the sick and poor in the 1700's, turned into a nhs hospital untill 2005, the building lays derelict, how ever 5% or so is converted for a handful of people to live there :

[ because they want to protect the site and their homes this is why i cannot supply an exact date as to when i explored it, apologies on that one]

when Camelot Property Management was brought in to manage the vacant building. The company filled several wings of the building with residents who pay a basic rent in return for making sure it is not vandalised. Vero says that most of the 40 or so residents are young people who are prepared to put up with the basic living conditions and state of disrepair – and the oddity of living among the detritus of a hospital – in return for a low rent in central London.

more info :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8271265/Oliver-Twists-Workhouse-Discovered.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Street_Workhouse

Someone who was living there at the time was kind enough to take me back for a cuppa after we hit a site earlier that night and asked if i wanted a look around, naturally i agreed. i met some lovely people in there and i really hope they get to stay in there, what a place to live !!!

This was the first photos i had taken on a dslr and had only had it about a week so apologies for the poor quality, anyway onto the photos !

in the ear testing room, we all thought it was a padded cell d=

edit : full set - http://www.flickr.com/photos/urdex/sets/72157629162942307/with/6814176529/

 

[Canonguy]

nice report looks like a good one cheers :beer:

 

[TheBaronof Scotland]

funky looking place mate

 

[skeleton key]

Thats pretty cool shads and you managed to get around

That a cheers fella from me :beer:

 

[shaddam]

Cheers all, i would love! to get back there at somepoint and take some better photos and see more, but alas it's impossible to get hold of the person i met, oh well plenty others out there

 

[Shush]

That's a really good explore so early on, and believe me, my pictures were ten times worse when I first got my camera!

Thanks for sharing