Not a particularly epic report but it felt necessary.
After checking on Cane Hill and how much isn't left we took a drive round the nearby housing estate that occupies the site of the former Netherne asylum. We'd heard that the place had once sported its own graveyard which some of the actual staff were not even aware of. After some research and a bit of digging we located it, over a mile from the site itself.
Sadly, the cemetery is all but gone; overgrown and almost unrecognisable, apart from a couple of distinctive features, which are included here:
Many thanks to the unhelpful, awkward, dog walking Hyacinth Bucket wannabe. Even her dog was ugly.
All that's left of the entrance:
Gate handle:
A sad and touching grave, one of only a few still visible, all sharing the same large concrete slab. We figured that the person in question may have been the illegitimate child of a patient or maybe sent to the asylum for autism or something similar, not privy to modern awareness of such conditions.
Our attempt to show that the place still had value, despite what popular opinion may be:
Thanks for your interest!
Vertex
After checking on Cane Hill and how much isn't left we took a drive round the nearby housing estate that occupies the site of the former Netherne asylum. We'd heard that the place had once sported its own graveyard which some of the actual staff were not even aware of. After some research and a bit of digging we located it, over a mile from the site itself.
Sadly, the cemetery is all but gone; overgrown and almost unrecognisable, apart from a couple of distinctive features, which are included here:
Many thanks to the unhelpful, awkward, dog walking Hyacinth Bucket wannabe. Even her dog was ugly.
All that's left of the entrance:
Gate handle:
A sad and touching grave, one of only a few still visible, all sharing the same large concrete slab. We figured that the person in question may have been the illegitimate child of a patient or maybe sent to the asylum for autism or something similar, not privy to modern awareness of such conditions.
Our attempt to show that the place still had value, despite what popular opinion may be:
Thanks for your interest!
Vertex
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