West Park Mortuary
Well hello there folks
I hope everyone’s happy and healthy. I haven’t been about for a few months so I haven’t been doing any exploring or even checking out DP, it’s been proper hard! So anyway, as I’ve been in Woking for a few weeks I thought it would be rude not to check out how West Park is looking now, so today I managed to get over there and was very surprised to find the morgue. I never thought I would get to see the place, I knew it existed, well I’d heard rumours, but never had any luck finding it, so it is a great start to the New Year, I hope that luck lasts...like f@?k will it, no, no negative self fulfilling prophecies I am feeling positive today??? The back box to my exhaust fell off on the way there so everyone heard me coming, I thought here we go again more agro and I’m only a few hours into 2013, so I did what is best for a blown exhaust and turned up the stereo.
As it was an unplanned on the spot explore I rolled up halfway through the afternoon which didn’t leave many hours of daylight. It seemed that quite a few folks had the same idea, nothing like a good old poke around a mortuary to get the New Year under way. I was on my own, but before long 2 fellow explorers turned up GS and IWCW, both really nice dudes good to meet ya folks. A short while later a couple more popped in, then whilst I was struggling with the light and on my way out several more visited, I don’t think that place has had some many live one’s in there for many years.
I think most folks know the history of what was a fascinating place, so on with the pics...
I’ve never dared to go inside one of the fridges before as sometimes I’m a bit superstitious with stuff like this, but after the crap I’ve had the last few months I thought what the hell....plus they are usually full of body trays that flip up if you sit on them so being easy to get made it more tempting to get a more unusual view, we’ll all end up in one someday anyway
Pics like this could really do with a little tasteful hdr to show off the light and shady bits...I must stop moaning about how slow my laptop is and get some proper software and actually get off my arse and try it out because I’ve seen some folks do it really well and (that don’t mean I will though!)
I was surprised to see microscope slides with bits of “person” on and brain impregnated wax cubes. If you fancy exploring here I would do it soon as, cause I reckon there’s a good chance it will get sealed up once word gets around, someone somewhere is likely to be upset about this potentially sensitive matter, after all, I guess if I had family who had died there and given consent for their parts to be used in research I’d probably be upset if their brains were still lying about....mind you it depends how well you get on with your family
Some of the slides were dated back to the early 20’s and 30’s....I know it sounds rather grim but I can’t help finding it very interesting
slices of brain held in wax....you can see the little lobes, fascinating stuff! I was thinking of taking one and putting it in the fridge and telling my brother its some hard cured calves liver pate give it a try...but then my morals kicked in, sadly they do that sometimes.....plus if everyone took one there wouldn’t be any left to photo now wud there!!!
Stranger bits hanging about....a huge mummified rat and on the lower right the headless back end of a cat on the table
I took this pic just how the last person arranged it in this “artistic pose”....I didn’t fancy shunting it about or using implements as chopsticks to pick it up and leave it in a more “natural” pose, however I did hear someone say “you're not taking that home are ya?” and it’s since moved whilst I was there and I must say it does look happier in its new place
Light was fading fast plus I needed a fag (I’m trying to cut down before I finally stop, well I’m delaying the actual stopping by cutting down a bit, slowly, but by now my patience and lack of nicotine was really getting to me) and I needed a torch and I wasn’t really thinking what I was doing, I got the torch out and put it on the table, saw my baccy, couldn’t wait any longer, made a roll up and smoked the thing in about 3 drags, then picked up that f@?kin rat instead of the torch....I was there alone but if someone had walked by they wud have heard me swearing:icon_evil
I left after this shot, it was getting dark and id left the hand wipes in the car and i needed another fag cause i was stressed by now and i weren’t gona roll them with rat hands....i don’t think there was much left to see as it’s a small place but I did rush about so I’m not too happy wiv all the pics so if i get the chance i wud like to have another look.
Here’s just a few hand held pics i took on the way back to the car, West Park fans will be pleased to know that the main reception and several wards have been spared demolition, not much is left but it’s better than nothing I guess.
Look!!! Some of the old shelters have even been spared! That’s great...and folks have even moved in to some of them with the lights on.
In the distance the old water tower looks pretty lonely at the end of the new street of sterile soulless houses. Some developers can actually make sympathetic new builds but they have failed here....bright new yellow brickwork just grates. One of the explorers I met in the morgue said they actually felt like crying when they saw the mess they have made of what was such an amazing place....I felt exactly the same, we get attached to places we explore and most of the times its only the photos that we have left, that’s if we’re even lucky enough to get them!
Well I hope you enjoyed lookin....until next time I hope, safe sploorin folks
Well hello there folks
I hope everyone’s happy and healthy
. I haven’t been about for a few months so I haven’t been doing any exploring or even checking out DP, it’s been proper hard! So anyway, as I’ve been in Woking for a few weeks I thought it would be rude not to check out how West Park is looking now, so today I managed to get over there and was very surprised to find the morgue. I never thought I would get to see the place, I knew it existed, well I’d heard rumours, but never had any luck finding it, so it is a great start to the New Year, I hope that luck lasts...like f@?k will it, no, no negative self fulfilling prophecies I am feeling positive today??? The back box to my exhaust fell off on the way there so everyone heard me coming, I thought here we go again more agro and I’m only a few hours into 2013, so I did what is best for a blown exhaust and turned up the stereo. As it was an unplanned on the spot explore I rolled up halfway through the afternoon which didn’t leave many hours of daylight. It seemed that quite a few folks had the same idea, nothing like a good old poke around a mortuary to get the New Year under way. I was on my own, but before long 2 fellow explorers turned up GS and IWCW, both really nice dudes good to meet ya folks. A short while later a couple more popped in, then whilst I was struggling with the light and on my way out several more visited, I don’t think that place has had some many live one’s in there for many years.
I think most folks know the history of what was a fascinating place, so on with the pics...
I’ve never dared to go inside one of the fridges before as sometimes I’m a bit superstitious with stuff like this, but after the crap I’ve had the last few months I thought what the hell....plus they are usually full of body trays that flip up if you sit on them so being easy to get made it more tempting to get a more unusual view, we’ll all end up in one someday anyway
Pics like this could really do with a little tasteful hdr to show off the light and shady bits...I must stop moaning about how slow my laptop is and get some proper software and actually get off my arse and try it out because I’ve seen some folks do it really well and (that don’t mean I will though!)
I was surprised to see microscope slides with bits of “person” on and brain impregnated wax cubes. If you fancy exploring here I would do it soon as, cause I reckon there’s a good chance it will get sealed up once word gets around, someone somewhere is likely to be upset about this potentially sensitive matter, after all, I guess if I had family who had died there and given consent for their parts to be used in research I’d probably be upset if their brains were still lying about....mind you it depends how well you get on with your family
Some of the slides were dated back to the early 20’s and 30’s....I know it sounds rather grim but I can’t help finding it very interesting
slices of brain held in wax....you can see the little lobes, fascinating stuff!
I was thinking of taking one and putting it in the fridge and telling my brother its some hard cured calves liver pate give it a try...but then my morals kicked in, sadly they do that sometimes.....plus if everyone took one there wouldn’t be any left to photo now wud there!!!
Stranger bits hanging about....a huge mummified rat and on the lower right the headless back end of a cat on the table
I took this pic just how the last person arranged it in this “artistic pose”....I didn’t fancy shunting it about or using implements as chopsticks to pick it up and leave it in a more “natural” pose, however I did hear someone say “you're not taking that home are ya?” and it’s since moved whilst I was there and I must say it does look happier in its new place
Light was fading fast plus I needed a fag (I’m trying to cut down before I finally stop, well I’m delaying the actual stopping by cutting down a bit, slowly, but by now my patience and lack of nicotine was really getting to me
) and I needed a torch and I wasn’t really thinking what I was doing, I got the torch out and put it on the table, saw my baccy, couldn’t wait any longer, made a roll up and smoked the thing in about 3 drags, then picked up that f@?kin rat instead of the torch....I was there alone but if someone had walked by they wud have heard me swearing:icon_evil
I left after this shot, it was getting dark and id left the hand wipes in the car and i needed another fag cause i was stressed by now and i weren’t gona roll them with rat hands....i don’t think there was much left to see as it’s a small place but I did rush about so I’m not too happy wiv all the pics so if i get the chance i wud like to have another look.
Here’s just a few hand held pics i took on the way back to the car, West Park fans will be pleased to know that the main reception and several wards have been spared demolition, not much is left but it’s better than nothing I guess.
Look!!! Some of the old shelters have even been spared! That’s great
...and folks have even moved in to some of them with the lights on.
In the distance the old water tower looks pretty lonely at the end of the new street of sterile soulless houses. Some developers can actually make sympathetic new builds but they have failed here....bright new yellow brickwork just grates. One of the explorers I met in the morgue said they actually felt like crying when they saw the mess they have made of what was such an amazing place....I felt exactly the same, we get attached to places we explore and most of the times its only the photos that we have left, that’s if we’re even lucky enough to get them!
Well I hope you enjoyed lookin....until next time I hope, safe sploorin folks
