mental hospital

Hi all, as threatened previously, my book on the 11 London County Asylums is due to be published at the end of the month, and pre-orders are up now. My first solo book will be out on 30th July (just a couple of weeks!) and will be available from all the usual sources. It details the history...

Back in 2018 I posted this thread: https://www.oblivionstate.com/community/threads/10-years-of-asylum-seeking.12405/ I kind of thought the jig was mostly up as far as asylums were concerned by then, and each time there was another, I'd have this kind of melancholic feeling that it was going to...

This ominous building once served as the power plant for the Central State Mental Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Severalls Hospital (also known as the Second Essex County Asylum and Severalls Mental Hospital) was a psychiatric hospital built in 1910 in Colchester. The 300-acre site housed some 2000 patients and was based on the "Echelon plan" - a specific arrangement of wards, offices and services within...

Hey all. This place has somehow stayed relatively under the radar for a lot of people. The place is now under demolition sadly, some of the best bits still remain though. A while ago the older building was converted and a lot of the outbuildings demolished. Inside the converted bit is the...

Hi OS. This one is an awesome place, after seeing it come up online I knew I had to visit, I thought it had all been redeveloped! A lot more to look at here than I had first assumed also. Here's some history on the place: The hospital was designed on the broad arrow plan by architect J. Vickers...

History Pretty much everyone knows about Runwell or has at least heard of it so history probably isn’t really required but for parity’s sake… Runwell Hospital was a hospital in Essex operated by South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust until its final closure on 23 April 2010...

Hey OS. This one was visited first in early 2013 with a non-member, at that time there were beds, some equipment and furniture left over. All the lights were on and at that time almost every door was locked, only a few rooms were accessible, security based inside and doing occasional internal...

Had a great trip up to Scotland for this one with a great bunch of folks. Awesome place, real fun derpex! Hope people like the photos! History Birkwood Hospital was run by Lanarkshire Council for the care of children with severe learning disabilities. Opened in 1923, it provided care for both...

Visited during a road trip across the US late last year. Getting in took plenty of energy and ingenuity but it was well worth the effort! A couple of rooms hosted a very cool graveyard of technology