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St Crispins - Northants - Mar 2015

trav

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Some History

St Crispins was a large psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Duston village in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.

It was established in 1876 as the Berrywood Asylum and closed in 1995. Its grounds and the surrounding area include a new psychiatric hospital, residential housing, a large self-contained retirement village, a primary school and a local centre of shops and offices. In 1887 further extensions took place, creating a new block for idiot and imbecile children adjacent to the female wing, blocks for epileptics on either side, a reservoir and fire station, stable yard and an isolation hospital with a distinctive pyramidal roofline. A stone chapel and mortuary were also constructed. Two new villas for female working patients (Grafton and Eden Lodges)were constructed south of the female wing in 1954. The grounds to the south of the hospital farm was developed for mental handicap services during the early 1970s and was to be one of the last major long stay facilities of its kind in England

The hospital finally closed in 1995 and the buildings are currently standing derelict with only one of the wards having been converted. A housing estate has been built on the lands that were cleared around the main building and a new mental health facility, Berrywood Hospital, has also been built on part of the site. Due to the 2008-2010 recession the work was put on hold and started again in 2011. The hospital was used as a filming location in the 1977 series of Doctor Who, in a six-part story called 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang'. The mortuary was used to represent a Victorian operating theatre. The hospital is included in the Talons of Weng Chiang DVD.

The Visit

Just thought I'd take a look at this place as it is only a couple of miles away. Pretty much just an empty shell ready for refurb, no flooring, few doors, just walls of brick and blocked out windows. It was a really clear night and I got there just as the sun was setting so got a couple of lucky shots....but I parked on the cricket grounds car park and my car got locked in...so to get out I had to drive onto the field(I kept to the edge!), all the way round until I was near the opposite side, down a short steep bank and onto a housing estate just fitting through the gap! phew!!

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The full size photo stitch is something like 11 thousand pixels!! https://flic.kr/p/qwquP6

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Session9

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Nice work mate. I like St Crispin's, despite its state :)

 

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Cheers, it's the first time I've been here! Shouldn't have left it so long!

 

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Good job mate. You've been pretty busy eh? Nice stealthy exfil across the cricket pitch made me laugh :D

 

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Very nice indeedy, cracking share :)

 

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A proper nice selection of pictures there mate, as wellingtonian said, you've been busy and it's good to see the results (y)

 

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Ive not seen this place in a bloody long time and would have thought they would have long completed by now but clearly not the case.

Nice shots there trav and good to see.

Up in that pigeon shit infested clock tower carved in to the wooden beams are messages from former patients many that seamed to be soldiers.

God knows what they were doing up there? Maybe trying to get away from it all?

Cool share bud (y)

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trav

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Thanks...Yeah I seem to have pretty busy....my 1st explore was on boxing day so have got quite a few done in a few months, think I've put them all up now except for Calcott hall or Red dress manor whatever it's called!

The cricket pitch escape was a right mission, I would have been in clear view of about 100 apartments so knew I didn't have long before someone called the police about a car going round the field! Was a lucky escape :)

 

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Nice work dude, gotta love a daring escape mission!!

 
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