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Having seen a mention of newly closed areas here in November I popped back to see what new treasures I could find. Lucky I did as they've been clearing it out very fast. Staff records and financial ledgers dating back to the 1800s were of particular note. Leather bound books labelled with each...

History The Surrey County Pauper Lunatic Asylum was originally established in 1841 under the County Asylum’s act which was passed in 1809. This meant that counties became legally obliged to provide an asylum for their psychiatric patients or 'lunatics' as they were then known as. Due to...

I'm sure a few of you old timers will be familiar with this one. It did the rounds back in 2009 but they've made it a tricky one to get into since then. I've been looking at it since 2014 but various recce missions proved pretty useless. The most memorable of these involved a bridge collapsing...

Lovely buildings, could only get a look at the wards etc that are still open. But still managed to have an internal walk areound. The older building still stands but no access was possible. Note the padded seclusion room at the end.

Part of our Brummy adventures took us here..very iconic in its day but rather a state now and development has started..but it was the end of a great day with PS and we passed her so thought it rude not too really ;) probably the best part of it was being shocked by a massive security man...