On Saturday two friends and I went to explore an abandoned hospital. I'd scouted it a good few times in the last 2 months. It's right on a main road with a security post so I was pretty nervous. btpp actually beat me to this site by about a month. It was crazy seeing a thread posted here on a new site I was looking at. He's got a great video of his explore on Youtube and an awesome thread from not too long ago.
It opened in 1950 as a tuberculosis facility and closed in 2012. It was very clean inside. There was evidence of mild squatting and a bit of graffiti. I'm certain people have been in there recently because there were things that had moved since btpp took his shots.
I had trouble with the lighting, I was trying not to use flash and didn't bring a tripod. A lot of my shots were ruined by camera shake from long exposure. The security seemed to be absent. I only realized this when we left, unfortunately. This was my first time in a site like this. I found myself feeling a certain reverence for the building, almost like being in a cemetery. I sometimes felt like we were being rude when we made noise or someone made a joke. This feeling only intensified when we reached the children's floor. I started to think of all the staff and patients that spent portions of their lives within it's walls. I was really able to see why I love exploring so much. It's a strange way to study history. We ran out of time but we're going again soon.
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