St Andrews Mental Hospital. Thorpe St Andrew Norwich.

Black Shuck · Oct 11, 2009

The Norfolk County Asylum as it was in its first Guise was opened in 1811 on the North Side of the River Yare Valley jusy East Of Norwich. A second Annexe was built a few years later on the other side of the Main Gt Yarmouth to Norwich Road. It closed in around 2008 pretty recently for such a size Hospital. I have been wanting to check this Beauty out for a long while and with the Very Good company of Man of 2 worlds and the Fanatical Explorer Boy we ventured into Madness!... First of all a few Exteriors

The Morgue I believe

These are the Extremely Scary steps down to the Basement which was almost like a Crypt..

The Main Computor Control Room,

A lovely Bright Blue Generator!

The Highlight of the Visit was this find above the Maintenance Dept, a room full of Ledgers, Patient records and othe Memorabillia, Comics, Books some dating back to 1930!

These are the Isolation Cells

Now for the Basement, this really did scare me!

Sorry for the massive amounts of shots but this was an epic explore!

Daydreamer · Oct 11, 2009

What a brilliant explore, loved the pictures, you can never take too many!

manof2worlds · Oct 11, 2009

Holy s**t Shucky, those shots are way cool - ample ownage on your part there :mrgreen:

A damn cool place huh - looking forward to the return visit complete with floor plan

mo2w

Lightbuoy · Oct 12, 2009

This one looks pretty un-touched. Is there much to see in the way of buildings -well spread-out?
Reckon that those Ledgers would make a good read. Hope that they get saved, regardless of what happens to the Hospital itself.
Great selection of photos. Thanks for posting Shucks!

erol4130 · Oct 12, 2009

spot on! good effort u lot! return visit??? count me in if u will have me! i was only looking at this place the other day and came to the conclusion in my mind that it had been converted into housing but i stand corrected, great report and pics shuck, loving the 3rd pic, i never get enough external pics for sum reason lol. i must say i have a soft spot for these old asylums tho. so much history, good and bad but a pleasure to walk around and take it all in. i'll swap ya severalls with st andrews

erol4130 · Oct 12, 2009

and i thought the first annexe was officially opened in 1814 but the foundation stone was laid earlier, i.e they cant open a building that isnt built. im probly wrong but i dont mind looking like a tit

i use this website a fair bit and its got some good stuff on there http://www.countyasylums.com/mentalasylums/standrews01.htm with thanks to the owners of the site for their time and effort too

helped me out untold amounts of time but im unsure as to how accurate the info is! oh and i hope u were wearing a mask too

Black Shuck · Oct 12, 2009

Daydreamer said:
What a brilliant explore, loved the pictures, you can never take too many!

There were quite a few there Day Dreamer! I loved this place.

Black Shuck · Oct 12, 2009

manof2worlds said:
Holy s**t Shucky, those shots are way cool - ample ownage on your part there

A damn cool place huh - looking forward to the return visit complete with floor plan

mo2w

It was a very good explore. I had to put all these shots up mate to do the Place Justice.

Black Shuck · Oct 12, 2009

erol4130 said:
and i thought the first annexe was officially opened in 1814 but the foundation stone was laid earlier, i.e they cant open a building that isnt built. im probly wrong but i dont mind looking like a tit i use this website a fair bit and its got some good stuff on there http://www.countyasylums.com/mentalasylums/standrews01.htm with thanks to the owners of the site for their time and effort too helped me out untold amounts of time but im unsure as to how accurate the info is! oh and i hope u were wearing a mask too

We were defo Wearing Masks Erol. You would have been overawed by the size of the Place, it was enormous.

erol4130 · Oct 12, 2009

Black Shuck said:
We were defo Wearing Masks Erol. You would have been overawed by the size of the Place, it was enormous.

lol ur yet to see the size of severalls

Black Shuck · Oct 12, 2009

Thats another one on my To Do List!

erol4130 · Oct 12, 2009

in all fairness u have beaten me

looks mint

Black Shuck · Oct 12, 2009

It was Mint. A lot of empty Rooms Mind.

klempner69 · Oct 12, 2009

Excellant report BS,its refreshing to see a new one but on the other hand its sad that yet another old place has been condemned.Get yourself down to West Park before Sevs as it wont last much longer I doubt.

erol4130 · Oct 12, 2009

the worst thing is im going to thorpe park on sunday and im going right passed west park, st ebbas and the remains of the other three

Black Shuck · Oct 12, 2009

West Park is amazing, is it in Kent somewhere?

mookster · Oct 12, 2009

Black Shuck said:
West Park is amazing, is it in Kent somewhere?

not quite, it's in Epsom, Surrey

that looks like an amazing building, yet another added to my 'to-do' list

Black Shuck · Oct 12, 2009

O.k I stand corrected! Thanks Mookster! It is good this one!

Sectionate · Oct 12, 2009

yay, someone finaly said the actual name of this place, not pretending it was an undiscovered asylum. Good work that man

wagg20 · Oct 12, 2009

Well done BS - I take it you didn't encounter the ghost in the basement then?

St Andrews Mental Hospital. Thorpe St Andrew Norwich.

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