Visited with Gromr123. We met up with Prettyvacant71 recently to cover some more of the site and it has been sealed up pretty tight. Not tight enough for us to get back in the Chiltern Ward again though. I guess what with it being summer hols the scrotes have been having fun and someone has given the place a good once over. They have even gone to the trouble of closing the doors to the lift shaft, for very understandable reasons.
As is the way it takes me forever to get round to doing anything with my pics!
Some history shamelessly pillaged from Grom's report:
Sutton Hospital was a large facility, but a lot of the site has now fallen into derelict following successive closures of the different wings and branches. The main Sutton Hospital site has been completely demolished, but many other parts of the hospital still remain with an uncertain future.
The current site management (Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust) are slowing moving facilities over to St Helier Hospital, which is on the north side of Sutton.
The wing we explored was the Chiltern Wing, a unit specialising in Mental health treatment.
The chiltern wing was initially closed for 6 months in August 2009 due to the discovery of legionella bacteria in water systems. However it seems it was never re-opened.
The explore:
A very chilled mooch around the place. We did have 3 teens follow us in but they bottled it within minutes of us descending into the darkness below them. Thank god! This was my first modern hospital, not really my thing I've gotta say. A bit too chaved and not enough natural decay. Still a fun way to waste an afternoon.
Can't take this one anywhere without him pissing about!
I can still smell this room, god knows what was in here but it was rotten!
We found out the second time we came, this was the Electroconvulsive therapy ward. The thought of having ECT done is terrifying to me. I have a schizophrenic Aunt who has has it done and seeing her cry in horror when she was telling us about it when we visited her is something that will stay with me forever.
Lift motor:
Now my favourite part - the boiler house!
Captain Shenanigans doing what ever it takes to get his shot!
Thanks for looking!
As is the way it takes me forever to get round to doing anything with my pics!
Some history shamelessly pillaged from Grom's report:
Sutton Hospital was a large facility, but a lot of the site has now fallen into derelict following successive closures of the different wings and branches. The main Sutton Hospital site has been completely demolished, but many other parts of the hospital still remain with an uncertain future.
The current site management (Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust) are slowing moving facilities over to St Helier Hospital, which is on the north side of Sutton.
The wing we explored was the Chiltern Wing, a unit specialising in Mental health treatment.
The chiltern wing was initially closed for 6 months in August 2009 due to the discovery of legionella bacteria in water systems. However it seems it was never re-opened.
The explore:
A very chilled mooch around the place. We did have 3 teens follow us in but they bottled it within minutes of us descending into the darkness below them. Thank god! This was my first modern hospital, not really my thing I've gotta say. A bit too chaved and not enough natural decay. Still a fun way to waste an afternoon.
Can't take this one anywhere without him pissing about!
I can still smell this room, god knows what was in here but it was rotten!
We found out the second time we came, this was the Electroconvulsive therapy ward. The thought of having ECT done is terrifying to me. I have a schizophrenic Aunt who has has it done and seeing her cry in horror when she was telling us about it when we visited her is something that will stay with me forever.
Lift motor:
Now my favourite part - the boiler house!
Captain Shenanigans doing what ever it takes to get his shot!
Thanks for looking!
