crackingday
September 22nd, 2006, 21:52
My first daylight trip to the inside of Severalls. I had previously wandered around the outer villas in my flip flops and had looked forward to going over the fence and seeing inside.
Kong_Si had kindly shown me around in the dark (see other thread) and then Soul_Scientist said he'd show me around during the day. Cheers fellas!
Walked down the track, towards a shady looking bloke, who as i walked past looked at me from the corner of his eye and gave a slight smile, i stopped, you ****? Yea, Andy, hi mate. We should have worn a pink carnation!
We walked towards the entry point, since two nights before someone with an arc welder had replaced the missing paslisade. Thing is, arc welding on galvanised steel dont really work that well so it just fell off! (plus its poisonous)
I squeezed through, and we we're in!
Had a fantastic trip round the site, looking at all areas of the site.
We were unable to check out the morgue and the water tower as they are currently stripping all the boilers (shame) out and the area was full of people.
We had a look at the site of the main hall (what a pity that "burnt" down, inside job i think) and then carried on looking about, through the staff canteens, kitchens, secure cells and the massive laundary area!
The fridges were a bit dark and strange.
The one thing that struck me was how the place still smelt of Hospital smell, even after 10 years of decay and vandelism.
Shame people have set light to bits of it, weird holes through both floors and burnt out, but not as bad as the main hall which makes me wonder about the inside job, i.e planned?
Anyways, great trip, thanks to SOUL_SCIENTIST for the tour, gave a really personal feel to it with his knowledge of the site!
Cheers dude
The pics:
Kong_Si had kindly shown me around in the dark (see other thread) and then Soul_Scientist said he'd show me around during the day. Cheers fellas!
Walked down the track, towards a shady looking bloke, who as i walked past looked at me from the corner of his eye and gave a slight smile, i stopped, you ****? Yea, Andy, hi mate. We should have worn a pink carnation!
We walked towards the entry point, since two nights before someone with an arc welder had replaced the missing paslisade. Thing is, arc welding on galvanised steel dont really work that well so it just fell off! (plus its poisonous)
I squeezed through, and we we're in!
Had a fantastic trip round the site, looking at all areas of the site.
We were unable to check out the morgue and the water tower as they are currently stripping all the boilers (shame) out and the area was full of people.
We had a look at the site of the main hall (what a pity that "burnt" down, inside job i think) and then carried on looking about, through the staff canteens, kitchens, secure cells and the massive laundary area!
The fridges were a bit dark and strange.
The one thing that struck me was how the place still smelt of Hospital smell, even after 10 years of decay and vandelism.
Shame people have set light to bits of it, weird holes through both floors and burnt out, but not as bad as the main hall which makes me wonder about the inside job, i.e planned?
Anyways, great trip, thanks to SOUL_SCIENTIST for the tour, gave a really personal feel to it with his knowledge of the site!
Cheers dude
The pics: