St Josephs Feb 2013

sweet pea · Feb 17, 2013

after rolling out of bed late with mr dan waiting and meeting up with cachewoo great fellow and company we headed into st Josephs for our pictures of the day i love this place its not wrecked or had graffiti all over the walls yet and i still cant believe our luck for the day as it was nice and relaxed any way i wont bore you with the history as its been done before so many times so on with the pics (i know mine are a crap quality but i need to save a bit of cash to get a dslr if anyone has one for sale?) pic heavy!

not 100% on what this is

i like tyres

this place has many quirky features like this

quite handy these signs although i cant read the first 5 words properly

stairs i like stairs

the lights are on but nobodys home

at one point i thought we had been caught then i realized we had company of several pidgeons

tea anyone?

always got to find a chair!!!

for some reason i loved these grates

we also found this about 10 minutes later cachewoo and mr dan blew it up and i shouted you were only supposed to blow the bloody door off

so i saw this in the chapel and well curiosity killed the cat so i opened it to find rather morbid contents

i got rather bored in the chapel only having a bridge camera so i went for a wlk about and found some stairs

and a bell

thanks for looking sorry about the over load of pictures but this place is amazing explored with mr dan as always and cachewoo thank you for your company it was a pleasure

MrDan · Feb 17, 2013

Yours have turned out really well mate, Loved this shot Saw you taking it and knew it would be a good one

St Joseph's
February 2013
A visit with sweet_pea and Cachewoo

A thoroughly enjoyable explore, I was worried about getting to sweet's house 15 minutes late, to find
he hadn't even gotten out of bed yet. This was followed by a really chilled explore around St Joseph's,
where we'd arranged to meet up with a new face; Cachewoo - fantastic guy to splore with.
I was trying out a new 35mm lens, need more practice, but I'm quite happy with the results.
All the below photos are as taken, hope you enjoy

A little word of warning, if anyone plans to go up to the statue of St. Joseph, there is an awful lot of
pigeon mess everywhere on the way up, and the stairs are an accident waiting to happen.

History
The St Joseph's Missionary Society (Mill Hill Missionaries) was founded in 1866 by Father Herbert Vaughan, it was
the first catholic missionary society to be founded in England. This college in Mill Hill was first opened in 1871 as a
seminary for Priests training to go on missions abroad. It is set on almost 7 acres of land and has had several
pieces of extension work over the years, most notably 1 wing in the 1930's and another in the 1950's. The mission
sold the building and some land in 2005 though the wider surrounding land still belongs to them. There is also a
Jesuit cemetery on the grounds. The building is Grade II listed.
Permission was granted in 2008 for the re-use and partial redevelopment of the building for use as a care home
and for the demolition of some of the late additions, such as the two wings mentioned above, though this never
materialised. From what I can gather, there have been many discussions and proposals for this property.
The college was on the market for £25m and I think Barclays Group currently own the land and they plan to start
turning this place in to 40-50 luxury flats this Spring.
There have been a few castings of this location in TV/Film, most notably BBC's Call The Midwife, which is rumoured
to be writing the destruction of the convent in to their storyline, as they will no longer be able to use it once work starts.

1. One of the main entrances

2. Above the door

3.

4. Toilets - Did anyone else think there were loads of toilets here?

5.

6.

7. A corridor and sweet_pea being himself on the second level of the library

8. The library

9. On one of the bedroom walls

10. Random or what?

11.

12. ...may be masturbating

13. Something that us explorers know only too well!

14. The chapel wall

15. Loved this place!

16. Candle with a wreath of Poppies

17.

18. sweet_pea trying to get a shot!

19. sweet_pea, MrDan & Cachewoo

20. At the top of a pillar in the chapel

21. The bell

22. One from the ground, and one from the top!

23. While the people in the houses were having a lay-in on a sunday morning... We were...

24. A view from the top

25. The gold leafed Statue of St Joseph

26. Twist me

27.

Pen15 · Feb 17, 2013

Don't put yourself down feller. You did well and you have a good eye for detail, that most of us would miss. I enjoyed them and remember its how you use it that counts and your doing great. Keep it up

MrDan · Feb 17, 2013

sweet pea said:
after rolling out of bed late with mr dan

Nice choice of words!

sweet pea · Feb 17, 2013

Pen15 said:
Don't put yourself down feller. You did well and you have a good eye for detail, that most of us would miss. I enjoyed them and remember its how you use it that counts and your doing great. Keep it up

yea i know its just the auto focus that annoys me i could do so much more with a dslr and a lesson or two on how to edit photos

UrbanX · Feb 17, 2013

Nowt wrong with those pics! Great stuff, my fave is the grill shot too. It looks great, I'm saddened to think itll go downhill tho. Cheers for sharing!

MrDan · Feb 17, 2013

Okay, all my photos have been added now.
Hope people enjoy looking at them half as much as I enjoyed taking them!

UE-OMJ · Feb 18, 2013

Great reports/photos you two

Carlh · Feb 18, 2013

amazing place, bags of atmosphere and liking those long LONG corridors

sweet pea · Feb 18, 2013

thanks guys and carl the corridoors are so photogenic

Cachewoo · Feb 18, 2013

What a fantastic place and company with sweet pea and MrDan, who uphold a lovely moral
philosophy towards exploring. You captured some lovely images lads. Here goes my few photos to add to our collective day out.
Cheers

St.14 by Cachewoo, on Flickr

St.22 by Cachewoo, on Flickr

St.39 by Cachewoo, on Flickr

St.18 by Cachewoo, on Flickr

flyboys90 · Feb 18, 2013

That little cupboard must be the meaning of pigeon hole!Great report from all of you.

Pen15 · Feb 18, 2013

Nice sets from all 3 of you.

Glad you had a great time, we missed each other by just a day lol Hope to catch up with you all soon

sweet pea · Feb 18, 2013

thanks guys anytime pen15 just send me a message and we will arrange something

tank2020 · Feb 18, 2013

Nice set of pics from you all. Some fantastic details. May need to book the services of SP and MrD for an excursion.

MrDan · Feb 19, 2013

Definitely Pen15, will look forward to it.
Tank, that's definitely on the cards I'm sure! Just have to find something, that we're all able to make! Gutted about your trip around our area recently.

Bones out · Feb 19, 2013

Good stuff, good stuff indeed......

Lucky Pants · Feb 20, 2013

Super sets of pictures,thanks for showing us

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Solid State · Feb 20, 2013

Fantastic site!

In Sweet Pea's first photo, "not 100% on what this is", it's a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and a nice one at that! Four track stereo, would not have been cheap in its day. National are the parent company behind Technics and Panasonic.

Great photos, would love to see this place for myself.

Solid State · Feb 20, 2013

In fact, here is one the same in action!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f724U6gdy5I[/ame]

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