Oresama (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} peacock) wrote in ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} abandonedplaces,@ 2008-03-10 05:00:00 |
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| Entry tags: | abandoned place, hospital, united kingdom |
Cherry Knowle (Sunderland Asylum) and St. Mary's (Gateshead Asylum) - UK - March '08.
This was only one of the buildings. We walked around for over an hour, as there were so many different outhouses and places to explore.
I liked the strange lozenge-shaped windows. It's not something I think I've seen before.
Inside, the wallpaper was peeling and showered the floor like confetti.
Close up, it looked even stranger.
I'm not sure that sticker was originally part of the furniture.
Blue after blue after blue, and a hole where the roof had fallen in.
Towards some outhouses, this was on the ground. I really wanted to cover the 'Ve' so it said 'Danger Reversing' but I thought that would be cheating.
On the way, we found a chapel. The door was locked, but we walked around the outside. I thought the windows were beautiful, and the stone almost looked like steel.
Damn padlocks. I don't believe in criminal damage, so we moved onto the next building.
A single room made up what looked like it used to be an office. This was here, and I like finding things like this. It makes you wonder if it was left deliberately, or for a reason, if someone felt strongly about her, or whether it was to mark the date the room was abandoned.
Some garages were next to the office. Aside from the broken wood and litter, there was one solitary sign of any human life, a single blue cup on a shelf, thick with inches of dust.
My favourite part of the garages. If I could have stolen this, I might have done. The cupboards were bare, alas.
This was attached to the wall on the outside of the building. I can only deduce that it was a pump or gauge of some sort. I thought it was strangely pretty.
A stairwell leading down to a cellar, You can't tell, but the black expanse at the bottom is actually water. The cellar appeared to be totally flooded, but another door could be seen at the bottom of the stairs. I'd wanted to go down it anyway, the water seemed to be very deep, so it was left well alone.
The mortuary. I imagine these tables were for storing the bodies prior to, or post autopsy, as there was an extractor fan in the room. This was destined never to come out amazingly, as the room was very small and it was PITCH BLACK (and creepy) so I was relying on a flash. Even now, I'm trying not to wonder what the stain is. :/
I first saw this through a keyhole, as the door into the room it was in was locked. Then I went outside, and found that the window into said room was smashed in and you could see totally inside that way. Thus, autopsy table.
Another of the autopsy table. They're not the best, as I was taking these leaning through a window as opposed to being in the room itself, but I like the colours, the white, the silver, and the blue of the far window, and the ivy snaking up it.
This was the staff social club. I took this through a pane of dusty, cobwebbed glass, because the doorway was nailed shut and we couldn't get in. There's no camera trickery on this, but the effect was altogether bizarre. The sunlight was SO strong at the back of the building, and I didn't realise the rays would come through in the way they did. I think it was a combination of the light, the dust in the air, and the glass I took it through, but the whole effect is rather surreal, and the plants in the back almost seem to be glowing. That said, I do like the picture, even if digital camera noise doesn't do it many favours. It's the loneliest chair in the world. Emo-tear. :(
On the floor of the social club. Who were they? Where are they now? It made me think.
An imposing tower loomed over the site. I believe it's a water tower, but I'm not sure.
A gazebo in the middle of nowhere. It seems like everything in this place was blue.
Broken legs?
Who sat here last? What did they talk about? Did they even know they where they were? The seats faced the forest, and you couldn't really see the horizon. Walking around this place did have an affect on me, emotionally.
Who broke this? How? What small piece of conscience led them to stand it up, straight and tall, rather than leave it lying? I found it kinda beautiful.
The metal arch above the main entrance. It was getting late by this point, so we decided to call it a day.
The wind was insanely strong, and the curtains were flinging themselves out of windows.
Obligatory black and white shot.
More curtains.
Glass.
An abandoned file, on a windowledge. I didn't place the leaves, either. They were just there, as if it was waiting to be photographed.
The vandalism at Cherry Knowle is horrendous. I don't think there's one window that isn't like this.
Dials. No idea what these were for, but I liked how they looked.
Bulb. Practically the only light in the entire place we found that wasn't smashed.
Gate of ribbons. Not sure how they expect that to stop people, but...
Inside an outdoor generator room.
The entrance to (I believe) the Admin block.
"Do not despair, trust in God"
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