West Park Hospital, Epsom
I don't know why, but I was thinking about West Park today and as a result decided to re-visit some of my shots from my visits a couple of years ago.
The trip was planned for many weeks, we had maps, both over and underground and we knew where we had to park, despite the planning it was still a really long way to travel and we did not want to fail at getting in, so very early one wet March morning we set off under the cover of darkness, Sat Nav pointing us to Espom.
Fast forward 3 hours and were were there, dawn was breaking and we were slowly and quietly sneaking into one of the famous covered walk ways...we were in, the weeks of planning had paid off...we were stood in, what some may describe as the hallowed corridors of West Park.
It was at this time that the asbestos people and builders were in ripping the heart out of the site, so we spent the next 7 or 8 hours avoiding people, getting thrown out of one door and sneaking back in through another - it was one of my best explores to date.
We enjoyed the day so much...fast forward 48 hours, we had booked off another day from work and were back exploring more of the site, which had changed a huge amount in just those two days since the last trip.
Photos are not the best, they were taken with my old bridge camera, I wish the place was still around to re-visit with a better camera.
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West Park..Gone but not forgotten!
Full Gallery - The Asylum Archive - West Park
