Hellingly - December 2008.

[Cosmicmoon]

I don't know much about the history of Hellingly, only that it had it had its own railway station which unfortunately is not in use anymore. I'm sure you all know more about the history of it than I do, so I'll just get straight to the pictures.

Fire alarm with the old 01 dialling code which ceased in 1990:

The main hall:

The elevator shaft:

I probably won't go again due to lack of transport, but what a beaut.

 

[iwaniwan]

thank you guyes for a nice day out : )
history is so obvious and well known that there is no point to write it again : )

some of my photos ( 3 so far as i need time to procces whole swarm of RAWs D )

 

[iwaniwan]

CREW SHOT

FROM LEFT: ME; ANDRE; ELIO; Cosmicmoon; LiamCH

Great Hall (was great in fact

 

[clebby]

haha i love the one of the two red chairs! and some excellent main hall shots

 

[LiamCH]

Here are my photographs:

In the water tower. I really wanted to climb to the top, but was thwarted by this ladder.

In a conservatory.

The main hall.

A sensible idea: drive a car out into an asylum in the middle of nowhere and burn it. I wonder how they got home.

 

[Neosea]

A sensible idea: drive a car out into an asylum in the middle of nowhere and burn it. I wonder how they got home.

In the other car they stole at a guess.


Nice fotos.

 

[Cosmicmoon]

A sensible idea: drive a car out into an asylum in the middle of nowhere and burn it. I wonder how they got home.

Why are you so stuck on the idea that someone did that for the fun of it? No one is that stupid. There could be a number of reasons why there's a burnt out car there.

 

[clebby]

i love the deep blueof that ward
nice work, storm troopers

 

[scammell23]

Great report. The theatre hall looks identical to the one in St Mary's Hospital in Stannington in Northumberland. It even has the same light fittings. Compare it to my report I posted a few days back from St Marys.
I love the group pic, imagine somebody walked past looked in and saw the strom troopers, they'd s**t themselves!

 

[scammell23]

Your picture at Hellingly

My Picture from St Mary's Hospital

Its amazing, so far apart but so close in appearance. I wonder if these old hospitals shared designs?
I hope you didn't mind me copying your picture to this post.

 

[iwaniwan]

it is worth to check who was architect of those places

 

[iwaniwan]

just made some research )
East Sussex County Asylum

Hellingly Hospital
Other names/synonyms: Hellingly asylum
Date opened: 1903
Date closed: 1994
Location: Park road, Hellingly, near Hailsham, East Sussex
Architect: George Thomas Hine FRIBA, Consultant architect to the Commisioners in Lunacy
Layout: Compact arrow plan with villas

from: http://www.countyasylums.com
____________________
Gateshead Borough Asylum
At Stannington
Built: 1912 Opened 1913
Architect: George Thomas Hine & Carter Pegg
Compact Arrow
Became Gateshead County Borough Mental Hospital in 1920
St Mary's Hospital from 1948
Stannington, NE61 6AA
Closed 1995. Planning submitted 1999, refused. Site still looks intact.

from: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/4_13_Ta.htm

that would explain a lot

 

[scammell23]

Thats very interesting, thanks for finding out

 

[LiamCH]

Why are you so stuck on the idea that someone did that for the fun of it? No one is that stupid. There could be a number of reasons why there's a burnt out car there.

All right, there's no need to be snappy. You're right - I imagine they burnt it at home and dragged it there.

 

[Cosmicmoon]

Your picture at Hellingly

My Picture from St Mary's Hospital

Its amazing, so far apart but so close in appearance. I wonder if these old hospitals shared designs?
I hope you didn't mind me copying your picture to this post.

That's amazing. I think perhaps there must be

Oh right. I see iwaniwan's post. Thanks for the info!

 

[Cosmicmoon]

All right, there's no need to be snappy. You're right - I imagine they burnt it at home and dragged it there.

Hahahaha! I wasn't being snappy, but your theory is just a little ridiculous

 

[Pete]

just made some research )
East Sussex County Asylum

Hellingly Hospital
Other names/synonyms: Hellingly asylum
Date opened: 1903
Date closed: 1994
Location: Park road, Hellingly, near Hailsham, East Sussex
Architect: George Thomas Hine FRIBA, Consultant architect to the Commisioners in Lunacy
Layout: Compact arrow plan with villas

from: http://www.countyasylums.com
____________________
Gateshead Borough Asylum
At Stannington
Built: 1912 Opened 1913
Architect: George Thomas Hine & Carter Pegg
Compact Arrow
Became Gateshead County Borough Mental Hospital in 1920
St Mary's Hospital from 1948
Stannington, NE61 6AA
Closed 1995. Planning submitted 1999, refused. Site still looks intact.

from: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/4_13_Ta.htm

that would explain a lot

That's amazing. I think perhaps there must be

Oh right. I see iwaniwan's post. Thanks for the info!

Hine was involved with at least 22 asylum sites, including 14 whole new complexes and 2 major expansion programs which involved more than doubling capacity of the site.
Many of Hine's recreation halls are very similar or at least clearly related often differing only in the stage surrounds, and followed a theme he used of combining certain stuctural componenets at different sites. Despite claims of 'rubber stamping' designs across the country, only two of his works were actually (almost) identical and there was considerable variation in layout between others. On the ground though its still possible to see the relationship between many of the asylums as visually his particular style pervades all his later asylums.

In addition to Hellingly and St. Mary's, surviving images of Long Grove, Horton, Bexley, Barnsley Hall and Hill End show them to be very similar, as was Rauceby prior to the replacement of it's roof. The surviving structures at Park Prewett, Netherne, Cefn Coed and Claybury also share the same design but are rather more ornate (particularly at Claybury, which was also larger). Cherry Knowle and Mapperly differ by being sited under the chapel and Herrison and The Towers are both much smaller, The Towers at least appears very similar to the larger halls. Bizarrely by comparison, almost every Hine chapel was unique and individual to its complex.

Pete

 

[Neosea]

Hahahaha! I wasn't being snappy, but your theory is just a little ridiculous

All right, there's no need to be snappy. You're right - I imagine they burnt it at home and dragged it there.

Now Now you two

 

[scammell23]

That burnt out car is a first generation Vauxhall Frontera 4x4, or also known as Isuzu Rodeo and Honda Passport.

 

[seven8]

Cracking thread folks containing some absolutely fascinating information. Thanks for sharing the images and the architectural facts, which make for an excellent read.