Gateshead Borough Mental Asylum sep 2009

[oddity]

This place was my first proper explore and I always love to see new pics.
The HDR work is awesome, very subtle and the colours look amazing.

 

[mookster]

don't usually like HDR but on those pics it looks just right, shame St Mary's is so far away otherwise I'd be there in an instant

 

[vmlopes]

HDR shot of my explorer friend !

HDR is good when its subtle this one is way OTT, your explorer friend is glowing....and looks like he has been photoshopped in

 

[Lusker]

Really good picslove the HDRzzzzz
that location is SWEEET

 

[Mr Sam]

the hall looks great

love the HDR of that stainless lift

 

[tripod]

Hdr

Awwwww sorry vmlopes , the hdr is a little too much for u ..... UNLUCkY .....

 

[Rooster]

Great shots

Love these. The HDR is fine in this context and it's quite subtle.

I was at St. Mary's today, my first visit. Being a total noob at this I tried to enter the site via the main gate, I did not realise the apparently derelict house there is the security point. Got shouted at by a guard so I went and had a polite conversation with him, asking where the public footpaths were. A jogger went past and up the main path onto the site. I asked why that bloke could go in and the guard said he was a local and it was ok.

I went and parked up in the village and circled round to the north and onto the site. Had a snoop around that big detached block at the north end but my jogger friend came back, saw me and immediately peeled off down towards the security office, doubtless to tell his chum. So I nicked off. But I'll be back! Maybe next week.

 

[hellostuartharpe]

great images, did you have any toruble getting in?

 

[the|td4]

Heh...

Regarding your security issues, no comment...

Ok so, anyway, I've been in here a few times over the years, always a great explore, etc.

HAS ANYONE NOTICED...

That's what part of the flooded boiler room used to look like. Recently I notice there's been a large wooden board type jig constructed over the top of that thing, it's pretty low to the floor so you can't see underneath it. The water (water?) that used to boil up out of that thing has obviously been stopped because the flooded room are now dry and you can see the high water mark along the sides of the walls (especially in the workshop room with the lathe).

So, I never got a good explanation as to what that (the above) actually was. I always assumed it was some kind of drainage related affair, but after my last visit and seeing that it's been boarded over it sparked my interest again.

Any thoughts?

Anyone?

 

[Rooster]

Can anyone pinpoint for me where the morgue is please? ie looking at the site on Google maps satellite view or better stll a screen shot with big red X on it?

 

[pixie]

thought there was a new asylum out there then, but no turns out its the lovely St Marys

I think the pics would have been nicer left alone, the HDR isnt subtle its way overdone and kinda hurts the eyes, but as said its personal preference, me? i would prefer to have my retinas intact,


otherwise its a nice report

 

[lilli]

The thing that is wrong with HDR in UE is the fact that most people look at the pics with a possible view to going there one day - HDR just spoils the whole perception of looking at a sites pictures to see "how it was that day".

.......... Esp this seemingly new invention that appears to affect 90% of new to derelict places - flickr transitional posters of over cooked to death HDR that makes your eyes bleed!

 

[spacepunk]

Very nice, goooooddddd explore.

 

[mexico75]

Heh...

Regarding your security issues, no comment...

Ok so, anyway, I've been in here a few times over the years, always a great explore, etc.

HAS ANYONE NOTICED...

That's what part of the flooded boiler room used to look like. Recently I notice there's been a large wooden board type jig constructed over the top of that thing, it's pretty low to the floor so you can't see underneath it. The water (water?) that used to boil up out of that thing has obviously been stopped because the flooded room are now dry and you can see the high water mark along the sides of the walls (especially in the workshop room with the lathe).

So, I never got a good explanation as to what that (the above) actually was. I always assumed it was some kind of drainage related affair, but after my last visit and seeing that it's been boarded over it sparked my interest again.

Any thoughts?

Anyone?

It's a bore hole, St Mary's pumped its own water from it.

 

[the|td4]

It's a bore hole, St Mary's pumped its own water from it.

Ahhhh I wondered about that! I don't think I've ever seen one quite as big !!

Thanks for the info mate!

Clearly the powers that be have divereted it somehow... What's the deal with the stone plaque on the water tanks outside the boiler houses, I took a pic last time but I've failed to upload it yet, that mentionned something about a water pipeline being connected to the site. I'll have to look into that somehow.

cheers!

 

[mexico75]

Ahhhh I wondered about that! I don't think I've ever seen one quite as big !!

Thanks for the info mate!

Clearly the powers that be have divereted it somehow... What's the deal with the stone plaque on the water tanks outside the boiler houses, I took a pic last time but I've failed to upload it yet, that mentionned something about a water pipeline being connected to the site. I'll have to look into that somehow.

cheers!

The bore hole was only used for domestic water supply, like the laundry and steam for the heating ect. The drinking water would of been of been taken from the mains eventually. The bore won't be as big as that hole there will be pipes and valves and stuff down there. We have one very similar to that at my work but it has a treatment works as well so you can drink it.

 

[Rooster]

I was there again on Sunday. Had a good look in some of the outlying blocks. Couldn't see a way into that big three-story detached block, what was that, a barracks for the nurses or something? Some locals out walking saw me coming out with my camera and said I would get prosecuted for photographing the place. I asked if they weren't also trespassing. "Well, yes, technically we're all trespassing..." Cheeky gits. The locals seem to act as the eyes and ears of the security gadgie in return for unoffical permission to walk about the site. I even saw some blokes hunting with a hawk and beating the bushes to stir up birds. And I get wrong for taking photos!

Please, someone, whereabouts is the morgue? I just want to see that and I'm out.

 

[mexico75]

I was there again on Sunday. Had a good look in some of the outlying blocks. Couldn't see a way into that big three-story detached block, what was that, a barracks for the nurses or something? Some locals out walking saw me coming out with my camera and said I would get prosecuted for photographing the place. I asked if they weren't also trespassing. "Well, yes, technically we're all trespassing..." Cheeky gits. The locals seem to act as the eyes and ears of the security gadgie in return for unoffical permission to walk about the site. I even saw some blokes hunting with a hawk and beating the bushes to stir up birds. And I get wrong for taking photos!

Please, someone, whereabouts is the morgue? I just want to see that and I'm out.

Mate, get your pictures up in a report and people may be more willing to answer your question, for all we know we could tell you where it is and then find it tagged up and the slab smashed next time we go.

 

[Rooster]

Mate, get your pictures up in a report and people may be more willing to answer your question, for all we know we could tell you where it is and then find it tagged up and the slab smashed next time we go.

I've Just read the t&cs and I'm not allowed to ask stuff like this anyway! I'll put up a report when I've explored the main buildings.

 

[klempner69]

Top marks to you for effort Tripod...and you Krypton,you need therapy for your key fettish!