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…
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…
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…
The complex first opened in 1857 as the Leeds Reformatory for Boys.Up to the mid-C19, children who committed crimes were commonly sent to adult prisons as there was no separate provision. The system was superseded by the Borstal system in the early C20 and many reformatories later became approved schools…
