History Borrowed: In 1886 John North gifted £6,000 to open a convalescent home in memory of his daughter Ida. Chorley and Connon were the Architects, opened 10th May 1888. Robert Arthington financed a second hospital on adjacent site which opened May 1905, and took his name but was mostly referred to as ‘Cookridge’. Ida hospital is the two…
Read detailsPart 2 of the Urbex trip around the abandoned St Joseph’s Seminary in Upholland Lancashire. Full history and details of the visit can be found in Part 1 of the report here. Briefly St Joseph’s College, Upholland is a former Roman Catholic seminary, situated at Walthew Park, Upholland, Lancashire, England. The foundations of the large building…
Read detailsHistory St Joseph’s College, Upholland is a former Roman Catholic seminary, situated at Walthew Park, Upholland, Lancashire, England. The foundations of the large building were laid in April 1880 and college was opened in 1883. The buildings have recently been deconsecrated following the announced closure of the College which saw the last students leave in…
Read detailsPart 2 of our trip to the old abandoned OM Asylum. This part of the report features the main admin block, I was happy to see that the Grand Piano still remained, and there’s no denying that this was probably one of the highlights of the trip. I think the admin block had alot more…
Read detailsI’m not going to do a full history on this one just yet, Demolition is well under way with parts of the site completely demolished already. Briefly this old Abandoned Asylum somewhere in the UK was established in the very early 1800’s and closed in the early twentieth century. The Asylum catered for both private…
Read detailsThe third and final instalment of the Serenity revisit report, This part features the more modern staircase, yet another CT scanner, all the group shots and the one and only wheelchair that I came across during my visit to this huge site. Links at the bottom to the previous reports which have loads more photos…
Read detailsPart 2 of the revisit to Serenity Hospital. This monster of an abandoned hospital has so much to offer from a photographic perspective. Its sad to see so much medical equipment just being left to rot especially some of the larger X-ray machines and MRI scanners. This Part of the report features the Main entrance…
Read detailsWelcome to Part 1 of 3 post for this epic revisit to Serenity Hospital! Visited this time With Mars Lander, Ssssshhh, Luckpants and Perjury Saint. Whilst I really enjoyed the first trip here, seeing it all again for a second time but this time feeling a little bit more familiar with the layout I was…
Read detailsHistory Gray, Dunn & Co the bakers and biscuit manufacturers were founded in 1853 and received a Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria. There is little information about Gray, Dunn & Co in the twentieth century. The firm’s factory was built in Stanley Street in Kinning Park in 1862 but destroyed by fire thirteen years later and…
Read detailsExternally the building looks more like a town hall or courtroom building rather than a church and the bell towers appears to have been a later addition perhaps the building may have had a previous function in its history. Unsure how long this one had been abandoned but its certainly becoming worse for wear!
Read detailsMy first derelict Primary School, interesting. A little on the trashed side but still a lot to see. Highlight had to be the gym and a couple of the classrooms were still recognisable. Not sure if kids or thieves trashed the place but shame to see it all a mess. Accompanied by the full S.O’C.C.…
Read detailsAfter a quick refuel and Burger King, we decided to split up the rather large group that we had amassed on this Scottish adventure and while 4 of our crew went off to check out the next spot, the remaining 5 of us had a little mooch about this little abandoned house. Named the Teddy…
Read detailsThe Unseen Asylum, An abandoned Asylum in Scotland was part 2 of our S.O’C.C. tour of Scotland with our tour guides Baron Scotland, Stussy and Sickbag Scattergun. In addition to our seasoned Scottish tour guides we had Beardy, Dystopia, Sonyes and Mr Costello in tow. Huge thanks to Stussy again for the access assistance and location suggestion…
Read detailsA weekend away for the Silly O’clock Crew we decided to venture up to Scotland to meet up with our good friends and Scotland’s finest explorers Baron Scotland, Stussy and Sickbag Scattergun. Destination number 1 was the infamous RCH Asylum. Crack of dawn was our choice time for approach and after an epic marathon drive…
Read detailsThis one has to win the prize for most interesting spot of the day. A rather unsual place, seemed in parts still used and in others completely derelict. Some really cool features, access to the roof tops both on a top and a cross section. The lights were on in parts and there appeared to…
Read detailsNot much of a revisit as sadly the other planes and helicopter were… lets just say… off limits this trip. We did however have some fun climbing all over the other plane what I believe to be a Percival Sea Prince (please correct me in the comments if I’m mistaken). Visited with altdayout, pete and…
Read detailsThe Diary Keepers Cottage… An abandoned house tucked away just off a main road which was full of little treasures from the previous occupant. Accompanied by the legend Pete Costello we stepped back in time to the diary keepers house full of interesting belongings…
Read detailsHistory This one has a bit of a sad history to it :(. The house was occupied by a lady who appear to have been living alone until she passed away recently… very recently. Although the house appears like it has been empty for quite sometime, evidence scattered about the place confirmed what we already…
Read detailsHistory OK so based upon what I have read, apparently Timbers in the malthouse have been examined by the English Heritage and some including the attic floors were found to have been there since 1750. I cant vouch for the validity of this information but if that is the case then its a pretty old…
Read detailsHistory Lancaster Moor Hospital was Lancashire’s first County Lunatic Asylum. The decision to build it was taken in 1809, one year after the permissive County Asylums Act, 1808. Designed by architect Thomas Standen The hospital opened in 1816 as the ‘County Lunatic Asylum for the County Palatine of Lancaster’. The Asylum was extended in stages throughout…
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