Around
the hospital grounds >>> |
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First sight of the mental hospital from
the adjacent housing estate...
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One of the
ward villas...
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Nature is beginning to reclaim the
land...
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The building to the left is a large
workshop area...
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More ward villas...
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Virginia Creeper swathes the wall of
the boiler house... |
The
services blocks
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A stainless steel
boiler flue has collapsed
giving the appearance of a shiny satellite
dish!
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The door to the upper floor of the
plant control room has been smashed in by metal thieving pikeys...
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The hospital central
heating pump control panel...
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A relatively modern heating system...
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Boiler...
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A stairwell leads to the upper floor of
the workshop area...
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All the sky lights and windows have
long since been smashed... |
Although these look like seats they
are more likely for storage... |
The workshop lift...
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Access ladder to the lift motor room...
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The lift motor... |
On the workshop roof... |
Ward villa seen from the workshop
roof... |
1930s architectural delights!
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The ground floor of the workshop
block...
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What on earth is it???
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A bath for disabled patients. You used
to be able to see one of these in another famous asylum...
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Part of the bath mechanism...
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The
catering block >>> |
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The auxiliary generator motor...
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Between the workshop block and
catering...
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Into the kitchens...
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Catering
stores? |
The entrance to the kitchens proper...
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Strewn with Aston Hall Catering pack
lids! |
These lids are everywhere, not least
all over the streets of the adjacent housing estate! |
The
cleaning cupboard...
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Power distribution
for the kitchen area... |
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The store
rooms beneath the catering block >>> |
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Kitchen wash room... |
Down to the stores under the
kitchens...
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Surprisingly dry for a 7 years
abandoned cellar!
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An example of what was stored here...
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Putting green flags in a kitchen store?
How odd!
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One of several hair dryers from the
patient's hairdressing suite...
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A lifting chair for severely disabled
patients...
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The mandatory abandoned shoe... |
A sheaf of unused "Patients
Property" plastic bags... |
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The ward villas >>> |
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Another variety of lifting machine...
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The entrance sign to two of the ward
villas...
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Pealing paint and paper on a ward
staircase...
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Wall art decoration on a villa
staircase... |
Another disabled bath, this time in a
ward bathroom...
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Single bedrooms appear to be the norm
at Aston Hall...
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...and each is finished in a different
colour scheme...
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Cheerful decoration in a patient's
bathroom... |
Presumably a patient's own wall
decoration? |
Giant
Lego bricks!
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Even double glazed window units have
been smashed everywhere... |
More wall art... |
Double doors lead
from one ward wing into another ward wing in the same villa... |
The sign out front tells us that we are
on Ash Ward or Cherry Ward...
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A relatively un-trashed kitchenette! |
Looking out of a
window on Ash/Cherry towards the central Leisure Complex
block... |
The decor was very aesthetic before the
inevitable chavs and pykey scum arrived...
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An attempt to plug the gap?
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Peeling paint!
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Chav boot work...
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Taking nothing but photos, leaving
nothing but foot prints...
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The pykey scum have
even Stihl-sawed the metal railings off the balconies - how hard
faced is that??? |
Decay...
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The colour of decay?
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Every bathroom is a different colour...
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It was hard to photograph this mirror
hand and it is not black...
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Who's that??? |
The ground floor of another villa at
the south end of the hospital...
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Peeping through the Virginia Creeper...
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Who is Ian?
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This kitchenette has a pretty red/brown
and apple thing going on... |
Disabled parking only...
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Autumnal colours on a beautiful
day... |
The Leisure Complex roof is coming down
after the recent fire...
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Within a day room in the villa...
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This bedroom has a very childish space
exploration-esque decor. It was the only one we saw of it's
kind... |
This illustrations
looks like it is from a Blue
Peter weekly cartoon called "Bleep and Booster" which was shown
in the 1960s... |
Another odd looking
extra-terrestrial character decorates the opposite wall but he
appears to be from Disney's "Toy Story"... |
Space man!
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South side, the
playing fields and the sports hall >>> |
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The Leisure Complex >>> |
Playing fields with the goal posts are
to the right of the villa...
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Inside a small sports hall with
changing rooms at the far end...
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Looking up towards the Leisure Complex
car park and entrance...
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At the entrance...
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Sickening vandalism at the
hydro-therapy pool... |
You'll have a bad head if you don't
do as you're told! |
This hydo-therapy swimming pool was the
only one in Derbyshire...
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There is very little that has not been
smashed...
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An inflatable swimming aid...
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The theatre in the Leisure
Complex >>> |
...so don't pinch it!
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Lost by kids whilst trying to
frighten each other? |
The stage end of the theatre...
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A youth's maths
exercise book (geometry work) which we found near the seat of
the fire in the theatre... |
M disappearing off into another dark
nook or possibly a cranny...
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The fire did not do too much damage
here...
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A long service tunnel runs the length
of the room at one end...
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Heating pipes run
the length of the cellar area underneath the theatre hall... |
A long, dark service tunnel runs off
under the road towards the boiler complex at the north end of
the hospital site...
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Looking out into the auditorium from
underneath the stage... |
Looking towards the back of the
theatre auditorium... |
And finally, an example of delightful
light and overgrown plants in the beautiful gardens around the
villas...
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