St Peter's mortuary, Chertsey, January 2016

[CuriousityKilledTheCat]

First explore of the new year  ​

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A little history on the place first that I'm sure you've all heard before - ​

St. Peter’s Hospital was initially built to house the casualties of the Second World War. The mortuary was built in the 1940s, but after much redevelopment it was decided that the site was too small to cope with the increase of bodies. So, in April 2009 the mortuary closed and moved to the new building which is now central to the main hospital.
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And the explore -​

So, this was a very late notice explore, with two non-members, literally organised the night before, at which point I hastily put my new camera on charge (I'd been borrowing my Dad's D300 up 'til now, but Santa brought me a shiny new D5300 which I was itching to try out :3 ) and set an alarm for early the next morning.​

This place was actually my first ever explore back in the summer. I was dragged along with two of my mates to "some abandoned mortuary up north". I had no camera but my awful phone, which I didn't even use, and absolutely no clue what I was in for. (We also had a glance at Silverlands, but got spooked by the cctv and the fact people were shouting at us that they were going to call the police..) But from that day on, I was hooked, so I was so glad to finally get some shots of the place having acquired an SLR and a (still admittedly basic) knowledge of how to use it! It was also good to actually see the chapel area too, as on my previous visit, there was somebody sleeping in there! Which we decided was our cue to leave...​

This place is really looking very sorry for itself now... it was pretty bad when I last visited, but it has got worse still  One of the tables is missing, and is flooding the place out, along with all of the doors from one of the fridges, and all of the racks from one of the other fridges, but it was still a morning well spent  ​

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Sorry for the rambling, on with some photos! ​

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Thanks for looking ​

 

[Maniac]

I am shocked they haven't demolished this yet, it's looking a right soggy old mess these days! 

 

[Urbexbandoned]

I'm surprised it's still there to be honest but probably forgotten about. 

Noce to see it crop up though, so much has gone since I first saw it. When I last went there was still running water. 

Thanks for sharing  

 

 

[The_Raw]

Bloody hell it's gotten worse than before, how is this even possible?! Yay for the new camera, Santa's not that bad after all aye :lol:  

 

[CuriousityKilledTheCat]

It is in rather a sorry state... not sure if there's any sort of plans to bring it down...?

We didn't try the water, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did still work, that missing slab was sure pumping a lot out!!

 

[AndyK!]

How hasn't this place fallen down yet?

 

[hamtagger]

As already said, amazed to see this one make an appearance again, good job

 

[CuriousityKilledTheCat]

 Yay for the new camera, Santa's not that bad after all aye :lol:  

the whole Santa concept may be messed up, what with him sneaking down people's chimneys in the dead of night...  but he sure has his perks  

It surely can't be long before it comes down, though I guess it's not really in the way of anything so maybe they just can't be arsed.. 

 

[klempner69]

Boy does this look fooked..I saw it in 2010 when the 3rd table was there and the body fridge racking also..many thanks for the update.