Report - St Joseph's Orphanage and Hospital, Preston, Oct 16

[ThePaizleyBowtie]

In the attic what was that machine because it reminded me of x rays or something similar???

 

[Dom Jag]

I live in Preston and a year or so back we found a decent entry into this place. Spent quite a few exciting evenings and a full Saturday inside exploring but the access was well secured pretty quickly. I have no idea how to currently get in, but imagine you will have to be quick to catch it. Great building with a strange mixture of chapel, hospital and old people's home, all sadly getting slowly destroyed.

Also, if you're inside, try and find the basement which is accessible from the inner courtyard, rather than the street facing gated courtyard. The entrance is quite hidden (and re-hidden by us) and took us a while to figure out, but we knew there must be one due to the low level windows. There are boxes and boxes of photos down there which are really quite interesting. Unfortunately not a morgue which we were hoping to find! Still worth it as I doubt many people have been down there at all in recent years.

 

[Vulex]

I live in Preston and a year or so back we found a decent entry into this place. Spent quite a few exciting evenings and a full Saturday inside exploring but the access was well secured pretty quickly. I have no idea how to currently get in, but imagine you will have to be quick to catch it. Great building with a strange mixture of chapel, hospital and old people's home, all sadly getting slowly destroyed.

Also, if you're inside, try and find the basement which is accessible from the inner courtyard, rather than the street facing gated courtyard. The entrance is quite hidden (and re-hidden by us) and took us a while to figure out, but we knew there must be one due to the low level windows. There are boxes and boxes of photos down there which are really quite interesting. Unfortunately not a morgue which we were hoping to find! Still worth it as I doubt many people have been down there at all in recent years.

Really nice advice. I've spent some time trying to find the morgue. And I've got a rough idea where you mean for the basement in the courtyard. But I couldn't be arsed moving the furniture into it.

I doubt I will be back here again. Although I'm curious to see if they found how I got it.

 

[Mentalasylum]

Want to take my camera on my next trip but don't want to lug around all my lenses. What lens you use mainly for this?

 

[Vulex]

Want to take my camera on my next trip but don't want to lug around all my lenses. What lens you use mainly for this?

Tokina 11-16mm on my crop sensor Nikon D3300

 

[The.Northern.Squad]

Beautiful, seriously really good

 

[urblex]

@Dom Jag think I know the room you're on about, used to live 10 minutes from the place so spent a lot of time in here & the room I'm thinking of also had a load of old 'piss bags' in it as well as all the paperwork, have lots of memories of this place but it seems to be pretty well sealed these days

 

[UrbanD3cay]

its nice to see photos of this place that are different to everyone else's, nice report

 

[Ferox]

I'm curious to see if they found how I got it.

Another tight squeeze by any chance mate Know what you mean about the look of this place. Certainly a dark one.
Great pics bud. 9 is a cracker