Urbex: Severalls Lunatic Asylum, Colchester – March 2014 (revisit 3) Part 3 of 3
Part 3 of this 3 part report on the abandoned Severalls Hospital / Lunatic Asylum in Colchester.
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Urbex: Severalls Lunatic Asylum, Colchester – March 2014 (revisit 3) Part 2 of 3
Part 2 of this 3 part report on the abandoned Severalls Hospital / Lunatic Asylum in Colchester.
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Urbex: Severalls Lunatic Asylum, Colchester – March 2014 (revisit 3) Part 1 of 3
Briefly Severalls Lunatic Asylum aka The Second Essex County Asylum aka Severalls Hospital was built in 1910 and opened in 1913. At its peak the Asylum could house 2000 patients making it one of the largest in the country. Based upon the Echelon Asylum Plan Severalls has become well known for its spiralling Corridors which connect various buildings and the vast amount of bay windows within the wards.
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Urbex: Denbigh Lunatic Asylum aka North Wales Hospital, Denbighshire, Wales – March 2014 (Revisit 3)
The abandoned Denbigh Asylum aka The North Wales Hospital was completed and opened in 1848 to accommodate the Welsh paupers who were reportedly receiving poor treatment in comparably English Lunatic Asylums. Electro-Convulsive Treatment (ECT) and Pre-frontal leucotomy operations aka Lobotomy operations were performed here.
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Urbex: Lotus Hall aka Cuckoo Hall, Wales – September 2013
History The Abandoned Lotus Hall aka Cuckoo Hall. Once owned by a man who had a passion for Lotus motorcars and a wild collection of Cuckoo’s which roamed the vast estate. Rumour has it that one day the owner went on a rampage, jumped in a dark green Lotus Elise and proceeded to mow down…
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Urbex: St Josephs Seminary Upholland, Lancashire, United Kingdom – September 2013 (revisit) Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of the revisit to the abandoned St Josephs Seminary. Check out Part 1 for the History and details of the trip here. And finally a few group shots from the dress up extravaganza :). If you’ve made it this far… thanks for reading / checking out the pictures. Leave me a comment below or hit…
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Urbex: St Josephs Seminary Upholland, Lancashire, United Kingdom – September 2013 (revisit) Part 1 of 2
History Briefly, the abandoned St Joseph’s College, Upholland is a former Roman Catholic seminary, situated at Walthew Park, Upholland, Lancashire, England. The foundation 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…
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Urbex: OM Asylum, United Kingdom – June 2013 Part 2 of 2
Part 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…
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Urbex: OM Asylum, United Kingdom – June 2013 Part 1 of 2
I’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…
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Urbex: The Unseen Asylum, Scotland – June 2013
The 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…
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Urbex: Rossendale General Hospital, Rossendale, Lancashire – March 2013 (revisit)
First a little Gopro footage from the first trip around the old part of Rossendale from the blog post I did in January 2013: I will probably get around to publishing another video with the GoPro footage from the 2 revisits. A little history on the abandoned Rossendale Hospital… Rossendale hospital started out as a work house for…
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Urbex: CMH aka The Cambridge Military Hospital, United Kingdom – February 2013
History The Cambridge Military Hospital, built by Messrs Martin Wells and Co. of Aldershot, was located at Stanhope Lines. It was named after Prince George, Duke of Cambridge and opened on 18 July 1879. In the First World War, the Cambridge Hospital was the first base hospital to receive casualties directly from the Western Front….
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Urbex: Rossendale General Hospital, Lancashire – January 2013
Rossendale hospital started out as a work house for the poor named Haslingden Work House. I’m not certain when exactly it was built, however, there is an old photograph supposedly from 1905 and an illustration of the building dated around 1898 in which the building looks remarkably familiar to how it does today…
