Carl
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Originally posted by Gav S
Carl have you ever been upto that empty building in South Hiendly*? head out of royston onto those country roads, can also get to it by turning left at shafton two gates coming from cudworth...
thats a freaky place! similar to these in this thread
never been, been to wombwell woods where that dam is, (think its wombwell) thats pretty spooky, meant to be devil worshippers about 
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Cybermonkey
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do u know how much it costs 2 pay armed guards and guard dogs 24/7? if there's nothing useful there y not just get rid of the danger ie knock it down etc
then why is it not destroyed rather than paying massive security bills 
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Carl
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Originally posted by Cybermonkey
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Originally posted by S12CKY
do u know how much it costs 2 pay armed guards and guard dogs 24/7? if there's nothing useful there y not just get rid of the danger ie knock it down etc
then why is it not destroyed rather than paying massive security bills
thats the point they are making. 
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Cybermonkey
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i konw Carl, i have a deep interest and involvement in this thread if you care to read it all 
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iceman
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we have 1 of those in taplow, it was give n to the canadian red cross during the war. now its an abandoned hospital.
http://www.crcmh.com/
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Ojc
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Its already been mentioned Mark
Lots of my mates have been up there.
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myke
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Originally posted by Ojc
Its already been mentioned Mark
Lots of my mates have been up there.
this always amuses me.
from marcsmotormagic or whatever the site was?
his name's stu.
i posted a few pics from there on p23
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ste_nova
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still loving this thread... over 2 years on and i'm still out looking at places 000's of miles and 00's of places 
pic from me from last week 
[Edited on 26-11-2006 by ste_nova]
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willay
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what
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ste_nova
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Originally posted by willay
what
eh?
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haller14
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i have just read all 24 pages took me 2 hours but was worth it!
some freaky shit i gotta say!!
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12vMatt
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just read all of that, its properly spooky looking.
http://www.opacity.us/ has loads of photos of old hospitals, may be of interest to someone.
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geordiecorsa
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Lynny and co. you probably know all this stuff, but I was reading through and passing messages vis my other half to his mam... hence the randon splurges of info (and pants spellings, damn notepad!)
hey, wish I'd spotted this earlier; Its also known as Stannington Hospital - my other halves mam did some of her mental health training there; the hospital its self was one of the first to use contraversial treatments en-masse such as electro therapy etc, (or so trainees where lead to believe - electro threapy started as early as the 1930s, at stannington it was on going until the 1990s, we think.)
Every waif and stray could end up in stannington - other half mum was there in the 1970's and her supervisor had been there in the 1940's when she believed they had housed anyone from mentally unstable murders to someone with a twitch (which could be deemed un-natural by their community - how archaic even in the 40's, 50's and 60's.) The murderer bit, she wasn't sure if it was a tall tale to scare the new trainees, they were often told how there'd been a few murders etc.
However - TB patients, as far as she recalls,wouldn't have been on this site, unless mental health issues as well.
She thinks it shut in 1996 (ish) but it closed gradually, and once wards where clear, they just shut them up, as the site had no plans.
Planning permisson was denied on reappeal in May of this year. The site has since been resold on the condition of planning permission being granted (I think this is from about June of this year)
Stannington costs in estimation 150,000 per year to maintain the level of security and building maintence (what maintence!!)
kez
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topshot_2k
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its all crap, alot of them are nothing more than closed hospitals, as brad said they are guarded to stop people entering for H&S reasons. the reason they cant knokc them down is due to the buildings being hundreds of years old and are now Listed buildings. therefore its cheaper just to seal them up and guard them rather than go through legal system to get them knocked down.
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X 60RSA
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I thought after so many years you can demolish but it does cost.
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ste_nova
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still at it
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dna23
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you need to compile a list of these sites .etc would love to check these out when i'm back being a student...
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SVM 286
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Interesting thread. Glad it got dug up as i've never seen it before.
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TheCrow
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There is an old mental asylum just up the road from me also.
St Johns mntal asylum in Lincoln.
We had a good look around this one.........
This place is proper scary at night!
If you want to look more up go to www.28dayslater.co.uk
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Colin
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Yeah there all spooky old rundown buildings but nothing more than just that. The local authorities cannot do anything with them as they are all listed so just board them up & have a few guards preasent to stop folk like us breakign in & possibly getting injured. A couple from round here have just been sold off to turn into posh flats.
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Danny W
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awsome thread, just read most of it & now fancy doing a bit of UE
Smoke Grey 5 Door
EastMids Regional Events
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Colin
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Ive worked in this place - Very strange place to be in alone
Gartloch Hospital :
Loads of pic's here - http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/Asylums/Gartloch_14052003/index.htm
In 1889 the City of Glasgow bought Gartloch Estate for nearly £8,600. Here the Glasgow District Lunacy Board built an asylum for the poor people of the city. In 1896 the first patients were admitted.
Gartloch Hospital is (was) situated on the eastern edge of the City of Glasgow on the Gartloch Road near the village of Gartcosh. "Gart" in old Scots means a Garden or enclosure. The name probably arose because the original estate had extensive gardens near Bishop's Loch.
When opened in 1896 the hospital had a complement of 540 beds, this rose to a peak of 830 in 1904 and by 1990 was 530. Although primarily a psychiatric hospital, Gartloch had other roles.
A tuberculosis sanitorium was opened in 1902 and closed after World War II. During the War, Gartloch was transformed into an Emergency Medical Services hospital. Psychiatric patients were transferred to other hospitals and a number of "temporary" hutted wards built. A legacy of this wartime use was a medical unit which was not phased out until the 1960s.
When Gartloch joined the National Health Service in 1948 it was placed under the Board of Management for Glasgow North-Eastern Mental Hospitals. When the Greater Glasgow Health Board was created in 1974 Gartloch was placed within the Eastern District. From 1993 Gartloch was under the Greater Glasgow Community and Mental Health Services NHS Trust.
Gartloch Hospital closed in 1996 and is now being converted to luxury apartments.
The land around the hospital is also being developed as a housing estate -named Gartloch Village
Looks nice now right enough
http://www.gartloch-village.co.uk/view_videos.asp?v=external
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Kyle T
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Not seen cybermonkey around in a while, did he change his name?
Lotus Elise 111R
Impreza WRX STi
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smack
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these places look well scarey.
spending a night in that alone would send me insane guarnteed 
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Ian
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There's no one driving that Merc
It also appears to step the rear end out around the roundabout
[Edited on 29-07-2007 by Ian]
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