Introduction
One from the backlog. St Martin’s has been posted a number of times but thought I would share my take on the place considering I haven’t done many asylums and this explore was a highlight of 2022 for me. Visited with @JakeV50.
Information & History
It has been covered numerous...
Visited with man gone wrong on an extremely wet day. Asylums are few and far between now, how I wished I had been exploring pre 2013. So we decided whilst this was an intact one and in good condition that we would go give it a look. It’s a very compact and small asylum. Consisting of what is...
St Martins Hospital
This site has been well covered in recent times, there are several reports on here about it, but I thought I'd chuck mine on here too, because why not…
The site originally was home to a manor house, called Stone House. This part was utilized and converted to accommodate...
St Martins Hospital
Been done to death but here's my take, Iv tried to keep pics a bit different.
Im not surprised to be honest despite the "used for police training signs" which I think may actually be true in this instance its just about the easiest hospital Iv done.
Im sure you know...
Myself and @obscurity knew that this hospital had closed but hadn't bothered until recently to go and look at it. We eventually decided to go and do it and we couldn't have picked a hotter day, we took the hardest route possible considering there is a camp site next door where we could've walked...
St Martins Hospital , Canterbury City Mental Hospital
Visited with @Dragon_Urbex
Revisited with @DustySensorPhotography
A few months prior, on a misadventure with the two mentioned above and some others, the idea of paying a visit here was bought up. It went onto the back burner as a visit...
The Explore
What a lovely explore this one is; and a great entry back into urbex after a lengthily lockdown (with exception to the Royal Orthopaedic in Harrow in April, Report to come). A huge heads up to @Dragon_Urbex for all the planning and legwork that went into this awesome urbex weekend...
The hospital, which was designed by William Joseph Jennings and Gray using a compact arrow layout, opened in 1902.The hospital became Canterbury City Mental Hospital in the 1920s and joined the National Health Service as St Martin's Hospital in 1948.
After the introduction of Care in the...
St Martins Hospital, Canterbury started life as Stone House. (Formally utilized as accommodation for private female patients - Now a car park). With the earliest records dating from 1885. [National Library of Scotland & Kent Archive] Designed by William Joseph Jennings and Gray and built as a...
Splored with Skeleton Key, UrbanX, Wevsky, SpaceInvader, Troglodyte, Mrs Troglodyte and Urban Ginger
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Planning for this battery situated just south east of the Drop Redoubt started around 1853 and completed in the 1870's and was updated...
Already knackered from the previous venture, we headed up to this place which also is just around the corner.
I'd like to say a quick thanks to hoppymat for driving, and to his bird for Batteries and Assisting also both of you's for being my tunnel lighting bitches
so enough with the...
St Martins Battery was constructed in the 1870's and was updated at the begining of the second world war, part of this included extending the already present Battery Magazine into a deep underground shelter, It has suffered smoke damage and several collapses but is still worth seeing all the...