Cane Hill: Admin on fire

[Incognito]

Now this really is a sad day..funny how there seems to be a fooked piece of plant on bricks out front ready for the insurance claim to be filled in...cynical or wot...cheers Al.

I was just thinking that, clearly they didn't want it being moved, either that or its a very rough area lol

 

[sick*]

that truck out the front has been there ages, pikies nicked the wheels so it cant be moved

 

[LulaTaHula]

I have no words. I am just very, very sad about this.

 

[Alansworld]

I'm saddened. I've always thought of Cane Hill as the ultimate in urban exploration, somewhere I've long aspired to visiting.

A

 

[Foxylady]

Now this really is a sad day...

I couldn't agree more. Asylums aren't my cup of tea but even so, the place was iconic.
Is it my monitor, or are most of those firemen just hanging around and not doing anything?

 

[Incognito]

I couldn't agree more. Asylums aren't my cup of tea but even so, the place was iconic.
Is it my monitor, or are most of those firemen just hanging around and not doing anything?

there isn't much they can do, they can only dowse it, they aren't likely to be heading in unless someone reported someone trapped inside.

 

[sick*]

when i left they were going to inside to prise open doors or windows to get the hose's in a better position, but theres not much they can do now, just leave the hoses running. There was only 5 trucks there when i was there and 2 of them were packing up.

 

[Simon]

The destruction of Cane Hill’s Administration Block by fire today was a simple, inevitable footnote in the sad demise of the buildings. When English Partnerships decided to demolish most of the complex and leave a scattered handful of "interesting" buildings in its wake, they effectively sealed the building’s fate. Isolated with no future, the locally listed structure was now either going to fall into ruin or be consumed by fire. The outcome of both is bound to be the same: the structure will be declared unsafe and demolished.

In more financially secure times, English Partnerships would’ve shrugged their shoulders and continued with their regeneration of Coulsdon Town Centre (which is why Cane Hill was demolished). However, their merger into the Home and Communities Agency, has left them as exposed as the poor Cane Hill Administration Block; the bloated useless quango will, hopefully, go up in flames in the coalition’s metaphorical bonfire.

A fitting end.

All the best,
Simon

 

[DubbedNavigator]

West park, and now Cane hill - how longs it going to be before something similar happens in Severalls?

 

[mr_bones]

Thanks to Laura for alerting me to this, I got to the scene around 12.30pm and the guards informed me I had missed the iconic clocktower crashing through to the basement by 15 minutes. I spoke to the fire crews who got their call at 8.45am and supposedly arrived on scene to a fire that had started in the basement.

The entire centre of the admin building is gutted, the right hand side is mostly gutted with a small section left and the left hand side survived unscathed. Fire crews went up into the left hand side of the building and doused the flames from upstairs which was more effort than I was expecting for a derelict building.

pics.

 

[mookster]

That makes me literally feel sick to my stomach.

 

[Allstar#500]

Disgusting.

 

[tumbles]

No doubt it'll be deemed structurally unsafe (it wasn't great before) and it'll be knocked down immediately.

Surprised that it didn't spread to the chapel, had it been in the summer I'd argue it'd have gone up in double quick time.

 

[DubbedNavigator]

Such a waste of such an awesome building

 

[sick*]

No doubt it'll be deemed structurally unsafe (it wasn't great before) and it'll be knocked down immediately.

Surprised that it didn't spread to the chapel, had it been in the summer I'd argue it'd have gone up in double quick time.

definately, if it hadnt of been raining so much recently it would have burnt alot quicker

 

[mr_bones]

[nomedia]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXiE8Sqf6c8[/nomedia]

 

[klempner69]

I loved that old clock tower with the rolled lead finish..so glad I got to see it all.

 

[Krypton]

fml.

That is such a shame.

Restoring it isnt out of the question - unless of course it doesnt get pulled down/fall down.

The end of a prolific part of the UK's Physciatric History.

 

[tumbles]

The destruction of Cane Hill’s Administration Block by fire today was a simple, inevitable footnote in the sad demise of the buildings. When English Partnerships decided to demolish most of the complex and leave a scattered handful of "interesting" buildings in its wake, they effectively sealed the building’s fate. Isolated with no future, the locally listed structure was now either going to fall into ruin or be consumed by fire. The outcome of both is bound to be the same: the structure will be declared unsafe and demolished.

In more financially secure times, English Partnerships would’ve shrugged their shoulders and continued with their regeneration of Coulsdon Town Centre (which is why Cane Hill was demolished). However, their merger into the Home and Communities Agency, has left them as exposed as the poor Cane Hill Administration Block; the bloated useless quango will, hopefully, go up in flames in the coalition’s metaphorical bonfire.

A fitting end.

All the best,
Simon

It was either going to be this or what has happened to Stores Hall. I'm not sure which outcome I prefer..

 

[Bryant]

http://www.bryantpedia.com/2010/11/14/when-the-system-is-just-too-damn-slow/