Local kids have posted pics inside. Nothing special.

I remember trespassing this place twice when I was younger. I remember we all wanted to get high but thank god we didn't. A lot of dead cats and birds, the walls were peeling everywhere. I saved this picture years ago because I hoped I would find it. I never got arrested but my friends who lived in that town did, several times, because they went on the roof. I remember feeling an intense, warm presence and was thankful I wasn't stoned. My friends parents even went in the tunnels. My mom said they shut this place down because people started having families, plus the lack of money and the invention of medicine. My mom thought it was cute I was so fascinated and would show me articles of survivors penning memoirs. You can definitely feel the pain there, at least I did. I've loved your site for years. It definitely helped me see the envious building 93 that apparently takes a crowbar to get into.

This looks just like that one hotel in Fallout 3.. Creeeeepy!

still standing...

I have been a fan for years, and this gallery is amazing, the pictures are outstanding. I can't quite articulate what makes these photographs so different from all the rest, but they have a striking surreal aspect that I have not seen in your prior work. Thank so much for sharing your gift, and I hope one day to be able to see your photographs published.

Homeless people have been known to frequent the hospital. The blinds are probably from shortly before the hospital closed down in the mid 90's.

Rumor has it that some of the underground tunnels collapsed around the same time you posted this. I hope it isn't true.

Love the new post! Thanks again!

Great stuff once again!

It's an English laundry press

In 1999 I led a group of people into this place before all of the fires and vandalism, and before much of the dissaray you might see today. For a week straight we went inside everynight and went further in everytime always keeping track of where we had been, as not to get lost. It was a dangerous place to be in and of course scary as hell. Many different unexplainable things happened one night a friend had glass fall on him and cut his face open from the ceiling where no evidence of glass had been, we had to rush him to the er. Another night two girls in our group dissapeared from the main body and 5 minutes later we found them in a patient room one on the floor clinching her knees crying and the other standing in a corner perfectly still and quiet, in the room was a box of interview tapes from psychiatric patients mostly from the 70's and early 80;s. In the main basement off in a corner we found a hole dug through the foundation in it was a tunnel that led into the earth for some meters until it opened into a cavern with many old broken apart cots and linenes, and old food cans from the middle of the 20th century.. I recall an underground passageway beneath the rear building that had an old wooden stairwell that must have gone down two stories to an old open, dank brick basement. We also found the creamatory (complete with ashes preists sash and bible circa 1920's....also we located the auditorium and lab storage areas complete with glass jars of many sorts of pickled organs. It was a great time to be there before much of the place had been ransacked and rumaged through. On the 7th night a bunch of kids were acting up in the front driveway and when the cos came to investigate we were caught coming out of the building...4 of us were among the first to ever get arrested for breaking and entering, and the state tried throwing felonies at me and another guy who were 18 at the time. But I must say to see the things I saw then in that building it was worth the extensive exploration, as now its a shell of what it used to be.

Perhaps an accommodation made for a very large or very powerful,and dangerously insane long term resident?

i would love to go there

im realy suprized vandel's didnt take that...they'd take anything not bolted down even if it's not in any condition to keep they'd destroy it more....it realy is a wast =(

look in the window of the door on the left it looks like there is something that looks like a person .

Anybody hear anything about some weird experiments the doctors performed on the patients?

Nice Pics! Thanks. I used to go fishing behind there. The BCI folks always nice to us. They once went looking for us to make sure we were ok after a thunderstorm had passed by.

thank you for sharing your talent with us all and capturing the history of a hospital that will one day soon be turned into another fantastically overpriced glitzy set of apartments and houses for LOTSA AND LOTS OF MONEY!

how is it the nhs in england moans it has NO money when they have SLUNG OUT HUNDREDS of patients and closed all these places, and sold the land set in hundreds of acres and the buildings themselves for MANY MILLIONS???
Can anyone tell me?

When you say accidents,;
do you mean they got beat up, or they pooed and weeed themselves, or as most likely a bit of both in the sadness of spending
SECONDS
MINUTES
HOURS
DAYS
WEEKS
MONTHS
AND IN MANY CASES .......YEARS IN A CAGE LIKE THIS.

How terribly sad.......

just imagine 4 a moment how many hundreds of men and woman of all ages passed through this bathroom in the hope their mental pain would be cleaned away....

ground control to major tom!!!

WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ALLOW THESE BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS TO STAND EMPTY AND BE VANDALISED?
THE PEOPLE WHO DO ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN SHOULD BE LEFT TO ROT IN HERE WITH THE RODENTS RUNNING AROUND....

did u use a light filter

shite

Radical ED!! you were right on the money about the ANNA story. I can't beleive the way her treatment was handled..It seemed like they were more concerned with just locking her away then treating what was wrong with her. PTSD is a very common condition that can be controlled with a combination of the right meds and therapy...very saddening... :( by the way I left you a message about 2 weeks ago on your AM..you still live across from the berry