This was the place which got me totally hooked on urbex after my initial first weekend explores two months before my first visit here. I made a total of six visits between August and October 2009 (and one in November last year to say goodbye) during the famed few months that came to be known as 'open season' where the regular security guard who was bloody good at his job got laid off and replaced by someone who wandered around the site maybe once a day at a push. Sooner or later every single part of the massive complex was open and explorable without the need to go through the service tunnels and sneak around. Then in November of that same year the original security guard was brought back and everything became a lot harder.

Demolition/redevelopment began in November 2010 and is almost complete now with only the water tower, social club and pathology lab remaining derelict. To be fair to the developers they kept a lot of the original ward buildings in the conversion unlike the fate of a lot of asylums over here which is nice, and they have done a fantastic job of converting the admin block.

These were all taken on an ancient Fujifilm point and shoot. Here are just a handful of the photos I took from arguably the second best asylum in the UK after Cane Hill.















































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Thanks for sharing! Hospitals/asylums are my favorite. I don't know why, I think it's the dark history behind them that makes it so personal for me. I ahve to admit, if I walked into a room with vacuums all lined up like that I'd probably shit myself. So spooky, but very beautiful.

Very cool photoset, thanks for sharing!

so beautiful.

Way cool set. I'd love to get into a place like that, unfortunately when most old asylums were built and operational, my state wasn't even a state yet. The room with the vacuums is rad.

Wow...These are stunning shots.

Photo's 6, 11, and 13 made my jaw drop. The children's ward looks like a very sad place, and the crib just made me shudder.

Really liking the lined up vacuums. Did you find them that way or was it staged?

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Posted by Axle Really liking the lined up vacuums. Did you find them that way or was it staged?

The 'Hoover Room' as it was known was set up like that by persons unknown years and years ago in a room on the top floor of the admin block, and it was pretty much left untouched by everyone who came across it - it became one of the iconic shots of this place which everyone snapped.

There was also a room full of a similar amount of floor buffers and not long before conversion started someone set up a hoover and floor buffer 'wedding scene' in the hoover room!!

Great shots. Really brings out melancholy.

Awesome looking place! I hate those vacuums, though.

Great photos! THe 12th one is my favorite I just love to see the stories abandoned walls can tell.

FUCKING SWEET!!!!!!

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This is one location I really do miss. Epsom, just south of London, where this site was situated was home to the famous 'Epsom Cluster', a ring of five large Asylums all around the town. Manor, Horton and Long Grove Asylums were all converted/demolished before the UE bug really got going, St. Ebbas was a colony plan Asylum still explorable up to about 2008, and West Park was the last one standing derelict. Now they are all re-purposed!