Battle Hospital Incinerator & Laundry, Reading Dec 2016

[mookster]

Battle Hospital in Reading closed it's doors in 2005 and was subsequently demolished, sitting on the land now is a large Tesco supermarket and new housing estate. However not included in the sale or development plans were the service areas such as the industrial laundry, incinerator, ambulance service building and a few others. These have sat derelict ever since with only part of that area being used to store ambulances and one smaller building is an operational NHS laboratory.

Me and my friend decided to give it a look on a day of trying out new places and all seemed well, for about ten minutes. As soon as we got into the incinerator building I noticed the obvious signs of a squatter in residence (including very fresh human excrement on the floor... ) so we were already on our guard. Soon after that we heard somebody else enter the building whilst we were out of sight at the other end and, after hearing them walk around making noise decided the best course of action was to avoid any possible confrontation entirely and leave via a small hole in the side of the building. We then poked around the empty laundry building and on the way out noticed a door that had been closed a few minutes earlier was now open. After that we cut our losses and left, which is a shame as the incinerator building is very cool and I would have loved to have spent more time there were it not for our interruption.

Thanks for looking ​

 

[Sam Haltin]

That's a nice collection of industrial photographs.

 

[5t3tcv743]

looks like a quite interesting site! Lots of machinery.
Good pics

 

[J_a_t_33]

Nice one mate, I never thought about venturing in there. Must have driven past that place hundreds of times!

 

[night crawler]

Not an area I would want to go to. I have spent time in the old Hospital before it closed but did not realse any was left

 

[smiler]

Shame you had to leave Mook it looks an interesting site, glad you spotted the crap and didn't tread in it, that can really spoil your day, Thanks

 

[mookster]

Nice one mate, I never thought about venturing in there. Must have driven past that place hundreds of times!

I have gone past the chimney on the train dozens of times in my lifetime and never put two and two together! It seems like it had slipped completely off the radar.

In all honesty I would only go back as and when the squatter leaves, but he seems firmly entrenched in his spot in the incinerator building and didn't seem like he'd take too kindly to people poking around. It's a shame it spoiled the explore but there but for the grace of god go we and all that.

 

[flyboys90]

Interesting site and some cool kit to look at.Thanks for sharing.