Legs and Borders

Place now has been converted into flats, few years ago it was a real gem to visit for British explorers, with loads of items still remaining in wards, great corridors and Chinese security :) We actually got busted by one of them on our way out, no question asked we had to leave.. well we have been leaving anyway. visited with: Vad. Asylum operated from 1923  until 2003. The hospital was designed by William C. Clifford-Smith (architect to the London County Council), who was also involved in the design of nearby St Ebba's Hospital. The hospital had been in planning since 1906, and by 1917 it was largely complete; however, the outbreak of war postponed opening until 1923. When complete the hospital could cater for around 2,000 patients of mixed class, and hence the site had extensive boiler houses and plant rooms, a large laundry and a substantial water tower. There were enormous kitchens located behind the canteen, and in turn this was behind the main hall/ball...

Now sadly demolished and/or converted place, few years ago a landmark for Asylum explorers, i managed to get there for it's last breath, sadly haven't seen the hall as the place was crawling with workers (two of which actually let us in :) In 2009 The Prodigy shot their last  single to the album Invaders Must Die , called Take Me To The Hospital in here. visited with: Vad. history: Hospital first opened in 1903 and got closed in 1994. Asylum, also known as East Sussex County Asylum or just Hellingly, was opened in 1903. Its architect was GT Hine, one of the great asylum architects of the era. The hospital boasted its own railway line, the Hellingly Hospital Railway, used principally for transport of coal. This branch line led from the main line to the boilerhouse. The hospital also had a vast laundry, ball room, patients' shop, sewing rooms, nurses home, extensive grounds, and an advanced utilities network for its time, including a large boilerhouse and a water ...

Severalls was for me exploring in the correct sense of that word.  To make the boring bit short i only had a rough idea about how to get in as decided to go there in last minute and didn't have much time to contact anyone [recived the info afterwards though, lol] so the improvisation level was very high... To say the least i had to jump over (way to) many fences and eventually had a meet up with the razor wire,  unfortunately it was on the way in, but decided to stay since i had a long journey to get there.. Approached the hospital from the northern side and had a good walk around there (first pic.) then discovered that it is not where i should be, so made my way to the correct part of it, security was doing their rounds, so it took me a while to finally get inside, after that everything went quite smooth (apart of facing another lot of fences on the way out) Severalls was a psychiatric hospital built in 1910 which first opened in May 1913 and housed some 2000 pa...

This location has been on to do list for a while, access has been quite difficult but worth a while :) Hospital was originally constructed between 1862 and 1866 at the behest of the London Commissioners in Lunacy to provide for pauper lunatics from the London area. The buildings were designed in a Gothic brick style by James Bunstone Bunning, and the facility accommodated 220 patients. In 1924 the facility was renamed the City of London Mental Hospital, and in 1948 it was taken over by the new National Health Service and became known as Stone House Hospital. A 1998 assessment by Thames Healthcare suggested that the hospital was not suited for modern healthcare; plans for the hospital's closure were initiated in 2003. [taken from wikipedia.org]