Urbex: The Royal Hospital Haslar aka Serenity Hospital, Gosport – December 2013 (revisit)
Another trip to the The Royal Hospital Haslar aka Serenity Hospital, an abandoned military hospital located in Gosport along the south coast of England…
Urbex: CMH The Military Hospital, LMM Annex, United Kingdom – December 2013 (revisit)
History There is a little more history on my first report from CHM in February 2013. Briefly the Main CMH hospital building was built in 1879 and featured heavily during the first world war in dealing with front line casualties. The hospital is also famous for being the place where plastic surgery was first performed…
Urbex: RAF Santa’s Grotto, United Kingdom – December 2013
This now abandoned RAF Airbase was for some years under United States Air Force control but later handed back to British RAF control. It was known for housing an early warning mortar detection system. Most of the contents of the base have been strip. The place closed only recently in 2013 so most of the…
Urbex: Leri Textile Mill, Wales – August 2013
Leri Textile Mill is an abandoned textile factory in the darkest depths of Wales. I don’t have a lot of info on this place, I don’t know when it opened, when it closed or who ran the place… All I do know is that it appears to have been water wheel powered and looks to…
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.…
Urbex: St Edwards Home for Boys, United Kingdom – January 2013
St Edwards was close by to another explore we had that day so we thought we’d have a mooch around since we were already in the area! Originally established in 1904 as a home for orphaned boys, it also served as a school providing dormitory accommodation as well as the regular school rooms a chapel…
Urbex: West Park Lunatic Asylum, Epsom, Surrey – August 2010
West Park Asylum (or West Park Hospital) was a large psychiatric hospital in Epsom, Surrey. 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…