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This is the first part of 3 reports on this visit to Severalls. Lots of photos were taken \ud83d\ude42 Part 2 and 3 will follow shortly, stay tuned and enjoy…<\/p>\n
Severalls Lunatic Asylum aka The Second Essex County Asylum aka Severalls Hospital located in \u00a0Colchester, Essex was a psychiatric hospital built in 1910 . \u00a0Controversial psychiatric experiments\/treatments were known to have taken place at Severalls including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) along with the use of frontal lobotomies. These sorts of treatments peaked in the 1950\u2032s. \u00a0The hospital began its closure process in the early 1990\u2032s along with many of the other large asylums in the country and a small portion remained open until 1997 to cater for continued treatment of some of the older patients. Alot more on The History and Future of Severalls<\/a> can be found in the original visit report from October 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n My Second visit to Severalls aka Sev’s this time\u00a0accompanied\u00a0by Sam ‘The Mule’, Pete Costello, Altdayout & Sssshhhh. Last time we came here I think we managed about an hour an a half inside maybe a little longer before we were captured and led out. This time we did a little better and covered a lot more of the place. Whilst I showed the other guys where the morgue was located I\u00a0didn’t\u00a0take any shots of it myself this time around so if you want to see those check out the first report from Severalls back in October 2012<\/a>. \u00a0This time around I shot a lot more bay window shots as you will see over the 3 pages of shots. I notice the Squirrels boutique has been moved around a bit, the bed has made its way from the yellow room with the barred windows to the neighbouring blue room. Otherwise, the bits we covered last time seemed relatively similar. Lots of corridor shots as always from Severalls, that’s what she’s. all about.\u00a0Definitely my favourite of the remaining asylums in the UK. Hopefully won’t be my last visit here.<\/p>\n First up a little gopro footage from the trip:<\/p>\nOur Visit<\/strong><\/h1>\n