Lunar

Wish we were able to see what it looked like back in the day -- I bet it was absolutely beautiful..especially with the moonlight streaming through.

This must have been absolutely gorgeous when it was new.

I'd love to see it in all it's former beauty, I can't begin to imagine how stunning this must have been. Great shot Motts!

I really enjoy this shot. You can see the levels of deterioration. Thank you for the history of the room as well.

Beautiful pic and love reading about the history of this room.
I had read in a book a long time ago, that some people believed that if you slept with the full moon shining on your face, it would make you crazy.

WOW, that's really something!

http://www.simoncornwell.com/urbex/misc/gb/

Depressing when you realize what is lost.

Nice links!

Reminds me of the movie, Blade Runner

Wow, the moon streaming in must have been an amzing sight.

Thank you Image Links for the before pictures. Great to see how it looked then, it was a gorgeous grand hall.

Thank you Image Links, and as all ways Thank you Mr. Motts for such wonderful pictures

This picture is great!

You're quite welcome!

Thanks for the link! How sad to see it in such a forgotten state.

It really was a pretty grand place! It is strange to see the before and after shots. It makes the decay seem all the more worse!

thanks for the links . it looks like everything was stripped down .to be reused some where else .

Thank-you, Mathue. It is so disturbing to see how absolutely regal and beautiful it once was. To let something like this go to waste is a shame.

It's hard to believe that a place with such historical significance wont be restored

this place was so beautiful before. Its sad that it is gone

...Wonder what memories will be lost with all that.. Sad...

Mathue, thank you! It is precisely what I was wishing, that I could see it in it's grandeur. :-)

Its sad to see the before and after, thank you Motts for the new set, and image links for the additionals.

wow motts it must have been wonderful it have been there

Oh all the places I've seen you photograph this would be the most worthy of restoration.

I feel that you are very brave man to walk a very shaky stucture, Mr Motts. Has anybody else here explored St. Margarets?

yes, i have explored st margaret's, but it was in pretty bad condition. was asked to leave when inside this particular building. luckily, that was at the end of the trip. the security there was actually a really nice fellow. i wish i could find out more about this place.

I guess, from the dates on the previous Posts, that I'm a bit late getting into this Gallery. I'm new to the site but , I just can't wait to get home from work each nite to view more. Thank you so much for the link. It puts it all in perspective. So sad. SO VERY SAD!!!! This place is a NATIONAL TREASURE!!!!!!!!

Breathtaking and aweful! It reminds me of the graphics in the computer game "The Black Mirror" I wonder if St. Margaret's Hospital wasn' t the inspiration for the game.

It looks like the grand staicase of the Titanic.
Sadly that was lost too.

All there is missing from this place is it's own requiem mass for it's slowly dying shell of ti's remains. I'm tempeted to get my violin.

Were there hot tubs on that floor... ? So that those hospital patients could take baths and relax.

I really enjoyed those links of before & after photos....thats sad cause it was so beautiful before....what a total shame and waste of a beautiful building.....what a crying shame. So is it really gonna be restored??

I have visited the hall on many occasion and yeh the hall was stripped and all the matterial taken out was stored in the outbuildings behind the hall but when restoration stopped all the material that was taken out was just left there left to rott.
When i first visited the hall the stair case was still intacked and was being supported by all the scaffolding, it even still had the chalk mouldings down the sides of it but over time and visits it collapsed or was vandilised, lets face it not all it's visitors were like us who just went to look in amazement.
I love the photos but it saddens me to see just how much it has deteriated.

amazing! although ive visited the site many times i never got into this building so its great to finally see it from the inside. Such a shame the site is now just full of awful newbuild 'shoebox' buildings!

good work solomon92.walsall council have a lot to answer to regarding the state of the hall anyway, i guess we all would like to know , is it getting restored ???

And this is the ceiling i was talking about in an earlier comment... i would of loved to of seen it when it was in its full glory!

To Jiff...
Still nothing at all is happening in the way of restoration, although I have been told that the council have a close eye on whats going on with the hall, how close only time will tell !!!

the stair case was destroyed yearrsss ago in a fire, (arson)


been there twice in the past two weeks, less than a year ago, it looked like they was doing work on it, they had fixed the fence around it and had 2 security dogs guarding it


after going there two weeks ago, the fence is once aain broke, the two secutriy huts that were thtere have beeen burnt, a caravan that was also there has been totally burnt

what appears to have happened is that new scafolding was put up, inside and out, and then jsut left

ladders fromthere are all the way up where some old buidlings used to be, some of the scaffolding has been destroyed, and some of the building has decayed even more, so that some of the building work has falled onto some of the scaffoliding and managed to break it

i have pictures , if anyone would like to see then, drop me an email at heather_harvey_@hotmail.co.uk

i still recon bovis ( the people who bought the land and built on it) have installe the scaffolding to make it look like they are doing work on it, and are jsut going to leave it till it is decayed so much they cannot restore it

they have restored the gothic bridge tho - i have pictures of this also


but whilst i was there today, we noticed blue flashing lights

and from across the lake we could see firemen on the scaffolding and 2 fire engines

not sure what they were doing

couldnt tell if there had been a fire there today or not as we couldnt smell any smoke, but the fire could have been out by the time we got there, hopin to go up there soon to see if theres any signs of what went on today

solomon92
if you still go on your horses over the site, i think i may have seen the prints from your horse

i would like you to email me if you can please

heather_harvey_@hotmail.co.uk

thanksss :)

sad to hear that the local toe rags are still destroying this place.from what solomon said about walsall council keeping an eye on the place maybe as many people as poss should let them know whats going on. bovis should be bought to book too. think anyone who cares should contact the local press or councillor and demand to know who owns it and whats going on. my feeling is that in ten years time there will be no lakes or mansion just another 400 crap bovis houses on the site.who do we speak to at the council solomon ?

To heather, no we don't ride over there now and haven't done for a while cause it got too dangerous for the horses. When they moved the security from the Chapel Lane end of the homes the vandals got in and the scap people so there was lots of stuff thrown all over the roads and all the metal drain lids/ manhole covers were taken leaving
large holes everywhere some of which were covered by grass so we had to stop. The authorities then had to seal the place up to stop the gypsies getting on so that also stopped us but from what I've heard they are supposed to open the Chapel Lane side up eventally as a country park as Bovis have no permission to build on this side but weather this will happen only time will tell. If it does then perhaps I'll ride round there in the future. At the present time the hall is still in a terrible state and nothing more has happened to the lakes or grounds, Bovis still plod on building their over priced tin pot houses on the other side, God knows who is mad enough to pay £260.000 for a 3 bedroomed terrace house with a postage stamp garden!!
Jiff I can't remember his name off the top of my head but will find it out for you and post it, I really wonder if the man who owns the hall or the council will ever put it back to how it was!! Very sad but I'm not confident it will ever hapen.