Legs and Borders

Or  Chemin de la Cure d'air as you like. Last surprisingly good stop of our trip, plenty of chairs and beds, heh. An abandoned care home and hospital.

Very interesting site, partially occupied by the artists, which charge 20 Euro per head to shoot inside, ehh. Fortunately we managed to capture three of the buildings before getting noticed and caught, so brace yourselves.. even-though the guys has been very polite. History: Queen Elisabeth of Belgium opened the Salve Mater psychiatric center for women in 1927. The center was set up by the ‘Sisters of Mercy’ on the lands owned by the counts of Spoelbergh. Until 1997, the mainl building held the psychiatric clinic’s administrative offices and the sisters’ convent.

Visited solo at some point in 2011. Had just one and a half hour to do it, but it was just about right (without going to the basement though). Place is trashed and not many features left, but still it was worth a visit, especially as it's close to where i live. history: Eastry Hospital started off life in 1835-6 as a poor mans workhouse. It quickly grew insize over subsequent years with more accomodation blocks being errected up until the 1870′s The layout was a traditional design, with the buildings being errected around a large courtyard. A chapel was built close to the road on one side of the workhouse. The workhouse eventually became Eastry Hospital, which was a centre that specialised in the care of people with learning difficulties. It finally closed in the late 1990′s. [curiousplaces.co.uk] Apparently it's being demolished but it must be very slow process as i've seen reports from around 2008 and it looked almost exactly the same. ...

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 ...

Some places you are just meant to see too late. Demolition of Graylingwell is lets say 40% done, but unfortunately it has taken the main features, the hall and the projection room. Went there in the middle of the week and perhaps i shouldn't have as it was crawling with workers, so had good time dodging them for most of the time :) Fortunately didn't get caught and managed to see most of what has left. history: Graylingwell Asylum in Chichester, East Sussex was founded in 1894 then finally opened in 1897.  During World War I the hospital closed temporarily and was used as a base by the Military. The patients were evacuated to other southern asylum’s. On return to civilian use plans were put in place for additional buildings to the main hospital. These buildings included an admission hospital which was to be known as Summersdale, a nurses home to be known as Pinewood, a building for female tuberculosis patients and a female convalescent home and also a home for...

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...