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Location: Oxford, UK Gender: Male Total Likes: 2377 likes
| | | Stately Palliative Care Centre < on 12/26/2022 6:14 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | As a little Christmas season treat to end the year with, I thought I'd find the time to make a proper actual post about what was probably the best location I did on home soil in 2022. It's since been well secured and covered in many, many cameras and external and internal alarms so it's not like it's a doable thing any more. This massive Jacobethan style house was built in the early 1900s for a family of merchant bankers, one of whom went on to become a very famous author. It was used as a convalescent hospital from the 1930s, then a nurse's training school from the 1950s and finally from the 1970s until it closed was used by a cancer charity as their palliative care hospice. Closure was first mooted in 2011, which was then subsequently pushed back to 2016, and the charity finally vacated the building in 2020. It has since been bought by a company specialising in creating retirement villages so will likely be converted at some point in the future. Now we get to the juicy stuff. My friends had discovered it was doable by accident, after checking it out a month or so prior to my visit, but neither of them had cameras on them. The building is filled with alarms but they said they stayed inside for about 45 minutes with them blaring away and nobody came, so I knew roughly what to expect and if it all went to plan we could be in and out within an hour and nobody should arrive. Entry went well although after getting under the fence we were surprised to find there was an external proximity alarm turned on which started bellowing at us in a robotic voice that we had been detected and security were coming, which put us a little more on edge as it hadn't gone off when my friends had been there previously. We got in without a hitch and, sure enough, after walking out into the truly spectacular entrance hall the deafening alarms started wailing. I decided at that point that seeing as much of the place as possible was preferable to setting everything up on my tripod so we all resorted to handheld shots just in case security decided to turn up. As it happens, for the hour we were inside nobody arrived to turn them off, although they did shut off a couple of times so maybe they were being monitored remotely or something, or were on a timer. This place is utterly beautiful even with the modern partitions and care home stuff in places, it was one place I had wanted to see since the second attempt at closure was announced in 2016 so to finally see it was fantastic. Apologies in advance for some of the shonky handheld photos! 1
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