Severalls Hospital, Colchester - December 2015

[TheVampiricSquid]

History:​

The 300-acre site housed some 2000 patients and was based on the "Echelon plan" - a specific arrangement of wards, offices and services within easy reach of each other by a network of interconnecting corridors. This meant that staff were able to operate around the site without the need to go outside in bad weather. Unlike modern British hospitals, patients in Severalls were separated according to their gender. Villas were constructed around the main hospital building as accommodation blocks between 1910 and 1935. The hospital closed as a psychiatric hospital in the early 1990s following the closure of other psychiatric institutions. However, a small section remained open until 20 March 1997 for the treatment of elderly patients suffering from the effects of serious stroke, etc., as a temporary building for nearby Colchester General Hospital which was in the process of building an entire new building for these patients. A few of the satellite villas as of 2013 are still operational as research facilities on the edge of the site.​

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Explore:​

Visited this one with @CuriousityKilledTheCat (shout to her for driving on this one) and a couple of non-members. we were on the road by 4am, and with a surprisingly reasonable maccies breakfast we made it just as dawn was beginning to break. we made it over the dreaded palisade, the only casualty being a coke can which made my mate look like he'd pissed himself haha. once in, we spent hours mooching around the place at our own leisure, but unfortunately no sign of michael - was looking forward to meeting him! we were almost finished shooting before a certain someone dropped their camera and ruined a wide angle, but hey - live and learn  hit a few more locations before a dreadful drive home, with another maccies stop - just about made it bearable  ​

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Quite a long one - i know, my apologies but it was my first time here and it's such a beautiful place!​

Anyway, thanks for looking!  ​

 

[loocyloo]

Lovely pics! Gutted I couldn't make it for this one!

 

[hamtagger]

It's getting more and more peely everytime i see the old girl. Top set of shots there Jack mate

 

[ACID-REFLUX]

Very nicely done mate, very impressive.

Apart from the Maccie"s  :???:

 

[CuriousityKilledTheCat]

Another fab day, and great pics there! Though I'm definitely going to be anxious 'till I get news on my poor lens! 

 

[klempner69]

Deffo improved since my visit 2008!Well shot that man

 

[Maniac]

Good old Sevs, probably the last remaining really exploreable asylum. Anyone who's not been, FFS go as it won't be here for a lot longer. 

Did you manage to get up the water tower? That's always the highlight of any trip here for me. 

 

[PROJ3CTM4YH3M]

Some nice shots there

 

[Andy]

I love that peeled paint everywhere.

 

[Urbexbandoned]

This place gets better and better each day! Fantastic set of pics Jack, really like! 

 

 

[Bonesout]

Chairs had a wonder!

 

[Dubbed Navigator]

I swear its looking worser for wear than normal over the last year....

 

[Session9]

Very nice, keeps going for now... 

Fond memories if an all nighter here, almost a year ago -----

 

[SuZyQue]

Wow fantastic, one of my first explores 9 years ago. The peeling paint is awesome, Can't believe this is still standing. You have captured it well.