In the south of England stands a hospital complex, abandoned relatively recently and, to allow filming for various TV hospital dramas, has many of its fixtures and fittings left in place. Although I have been asked not to reveal the specific details I can tell you that this place is large, varied and remarkably well-preserved.
After travelling through the night and with great trepidation we made our entry into the fenced hospital grounds and, after a little trail and error, into the building itself. None of our party were prepared for the true scale we witnessed.
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What we expected was a few fair-size buildings, hopefully with one or two interesting features left in place. What we were presented with was a labyrinth of rooms, corridors, staircases, elevator shafts, operating theatres, wards, a gymnasium, a hydrotherapy pool, A & E, admin offices, doctors offices, MRI machines, CAT-Scaners, X-ray machines. You name it, it could be found here somewhere. In terms of NHS urbex, we had hit the bloody mother-load!
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Nice though it was to find a big ward full of photogenic hospital beds all lined up, it was much more of a relief just to find somewhere suitable to get a quick hour of rest after all night traveling the length of the UK and all morning exploring.
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OK, so we managed to explore the bit on the left…the bit in the middle…the bits on the right…the bits at the back…the bits behind us… We were in there 11 or so hours and covered a LOT of ground.
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Thanks
MrD
After travelling through the night and with great trepidation we made our entry into the fenced hospital grounds and, after a little trail and error, into the building itself. None of our party were prepared for the true scale we witnessed.
1.
2.
What we expected was a few fair-size buildings, hopefully with one or two interesting features left in place. What we were presented with was a labyrinth of rooms, corridors, staircases, elevator shafts, operating theatres, wards, a gymnasium, a hydrotherapy pool, A & E, admin offices, doctors offices, MRI machines, CAT-Scaners, X-ray machines. You name it, it could be found here somewhere. In terms of NHS urbex, we had hit the bloody mother-load!
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Nice though it was to find a big ward full of photogenic hospital beds all lined up, it was much more of a relief just to find somewhere suitable to get a quick hour of rest after all night traveling the length of the UK and all morning exploring.
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OK, so we managed to explore the bit on the left…the bit in the middle…the bits on the right…the bits at the back…the bits behind us… We were in there 11 or so hours and covered a LOT of ground.
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Thanks
MrD
