St Albrights - Essex

[KongZi]

Live Local Sat Shot (http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=51.888488~0.846057&style=h&lvl=18&sp=aN.sndssmh27rtr_Colchester%252c%2520England%252 c%2520United%2520Kingdom___[/)
Formerly a workhouse called the "Lexden and Winstree", built in 1836 closed in 2006. Access is very easy to the buildings however there is no internal access to the buildings.

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Some Historical information here (http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Lexden/Lexden.shtml)

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External heating by the looks of it, so no service tunnels, all over head.
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Through a vent hole on the main building
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[KongZi]

Ooook then, took a little trip back there this afternoon to have yet another look, upon reaching it, alarm bells were going off, but not in my head! Over the last day or so some ones gone in via the center court yard and set off an alarm, its quite possibly the fire alarm, its those red metal bell type alarm, theres about 4 going off across the place :rolleyes:

I walked in after parking the car down the road, locals use it to cut through while walking out to the main road, some could be heard saying "is that still going off?" so fark knows when it started.

I climbed (badly) a wall and had a look in the court yard, some ones put through 3 doors and 2 windows!

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Through a missing window

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Stairs, glorious stairs!

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It was very very loud in there and I thought if anything its still attracting the wrong sort of attention so I decided to leave the way I came and wait till the power on the building was cut or the alarm reset, still, I managed to step inside making me the first :D

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Excuse phone pics but heres a couple of pics of the chapel. I want the giant cane hill stylee dryer thats hiding in the corner (brand new still in packaging!)

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