good evening peeps of d.p well we have had a busy day today ,myself and sarah with re8eldog visited no less than 5 locations today ,,st crispins has been documented before but a snippet of history from wiki
St Crispins was a large psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Duston in Northamptonshire, England.
It was established in 1876 as the Berrywood Asylum. It closed in 1995. Its grounds and the surrounding area are under development and will include a new psychiatric hospital, residential housing, a large self-contained retirement village, a primary school and a local centre of shops and offices.
The hospital finally closed in 1995 and the buildings are currently standing derelict with only one of the wards having been converted. A housing estate has been built on the lands that were cleared around the main building and a new mental health facility, Berrywood Hospital, has also been built on part of the site. As with many of these projects, the developer, Taylor Wimpey has built a large number of new homes on the site and not concentrated on preserving the original buildings. Due to the 2008-2010 recession the work was again put on hold and the hospital site has deteriorated rapidly leaving them in a poor state of repair.[2]
Work to restore the remaining buildings left standing started in 2011. The main feature of the large clock tower is to become one large apartment with a spiral staircase running up through the centre.
The hospital was used as a filming location in the 1977 series of Doctor Who, in a six part story called 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang'. It is not known which parts of the hospital site were used during the filming. The hospital is included in the Talons of Weng Chiang DVD.[3]
and now the pics ,,there is workmen on the site so we had to dodge about a bit but couldnt get up the clock tower as they have sealed it off completely
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St Crispins was a large psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Duston in Northamptonshire, England.
It was established in 1876 as the Berrywood Asylum. It closed in 1995. Its grounds and the surrounding area are under development and will include a new psychiatric hospital, residential housing, a large self-contained retirement village, a primary school and a local centre of shops and offices.
The hospital finally closed in 1995 and the buildings are currently standing derelict with only one of the wards having been converted. A housing estate has been built on the lands that were cleared around the main building and a new mental health facility, Berrywood Hospital, has also been built on part of the site. As with many of these projects, the developer, Taylor Wimpey has built a large number of new homes on the site and not concentrated on preserving the original buildings. Due to the 2008-2010 recession the work was again put on hold and the hospital site has deteriorated rapidly leaving them in a poor state of repair.[2]
Work to restore the remaining buildings left standing started in 2011. The main feature of the large clock tower is to become one large apartment with a spiral staircase running up through the centre.
The hospital was used as a filming location in the 1977 series of Doctor Who, in a six part story called 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang'. It is not known which parts of the hospital site were used during the filming. The hospital is included in the Talons of Weng Chiang DVD.[3]
and now the pics ,,there is workmen on the site so we had to dodge about a bit but couldnt get up the clock tower as they have sealed it off completely
thanks for looking
