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St Augustine's Hospital - Chartham, Kent - July '11

Ramsgatonion

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About the Site

St Augustine’s Hospital (1875–1993) was a psychiatric hospital in Chartham, Kent. It was founded as the second, or East, Kent County Asylum in 1872. In 1948 the hospital became part of the National Health Service and was renamed St Augustine's Hospital. St Augustine's Hospital closed in 1993 and the site is now occupied by housing, although a few of the original hospital buildings remain. The water tower and admin areas are still standing, but have been redeveloped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Augusti ... ,_Chartham - Look here for a full history.

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=51.24433 ... =0&src=msa - Aerial view of derelict buildings. (Developed area with water tower and admin to the West).

Three of the derelict buildings are original Victorian hospital buildings, but the fourth building was a later addition, it was used as a school, and has about a dozen classrooms and a gymnasium.

The Visit

Yet another place within easy driving distance that I had never got round to doing. Having perfect weather and not much to do I decided to head over to Chartham to see this place finally. Inside it was, for lack of a better word, eerie. The natural decay is quite unique here. In the hallways of one of the Victorian buildings fiber-glass insulation hangs from the rafters and every last painted wall is peeling. There is no denying it is quite trashed, but the decay really made the visit worthwhile. Anyway, hope you enjoy my first Black and White report!

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Thanks for looking!

 
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Shame the piano is totaly destroyed,yeah the place has some nice long decaying corridors..the wife visited a while back with space invader to remeniss as whats left is basically one part hospital the rest to do with the school and boarders section etc..still as you say nice and relaxed!!well done

 

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Oak house is the hospital part..beach house the single story building with the gym was the school for the day students and boarders...and juniper and redwood respectivly one was the for the day students to use for recreation/lunch etc...the other was for the boarders who lived on site...so im reliably informed by janine who went there for two years!

 

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Either juniper or redwood has the bath with the disabled chair in it, though. I thought it could have been a children's ward or something. It also had the painting of the beach on the wall.

 

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Either juniper or redwood has the bath with the disabled chair in it, though. I thought it could have been a children's ward or something. It also had the painting of the beach on the wall.
some of the girls who where at the school may have had children mate was a school for naughty girls..my mate spent a while there i tried to get in ,apparantly i wasnt that bad tho :)

 

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Nice stuff Flyguy, the B&W serves it well :)

 

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I was there at redwood 1982/1983 had a dodgy upbringing I remember go-carts and going down to the hospital to spend my pocket money there was some characters there
 

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I was there at redwood 1982/1983 had a dodgy upbringing I remember go-carts and going down to the hospital to spend my pocket money there was some characters there
Other children I can remember are Claire pain Darren ascue a girl called Angela
 

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Superb stuff, loving the corridor shot with the ceiling coming down, you have captured it well. :D

 
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