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St. Thomas medical school, Block 9, Westminster, London - Feburary 2015

slayaaaa

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So some help from Zombizza and Oakley and I was quite excited to get here, so thanks for helping me with that! This place is pretty sweet and we found some nice bits of rat in test tubes and animal testing ephemera. rats lungs and stuff...

History

The building was part of St Thomas' Hospital which was established in 1173. According to historical records St Thomas's Hospital Medical School was founded in about 1550. It was admitted as a school of the University of London in 1900 but remained a constituent part of St Thomas' Hospital until 1948 when it formally became part of the university. In 1982 it merged with the medical school at Guy's Hospital to form the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. In turn UMDS was absorbed by King's College London School of Medicine and Dentistry, but the dentists have since been split out into The Dental Institute.

Unlike the hospital which in recent times dropped the possessive "s", the medical school continued with the original spelling.

The building is described as:

Circa 1870 by Henry Currey. Italianate two-storey building with later raisedattic. Main west front shows projecting 6-bay north wing;six bay main block of

wider proportions with tower at south end. Red brick with Portland stone quoins,

band,window dressings and balustraded parapet. Round headed windows in moulded

architraves on first floor of left wing. Main block has paired round headed windows

within larger round arch with light in spandrel. Tower of one tall stage with

deep windows in sunk panel. Stone architrave with keystones rising to cornice

whose long brackets support projecting cast iron balcony. Stone stage above has

hipped lead roof with balustraded turret.
And is grade II listed (http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-204399-block-9-of-st-thomas-s-hospital-medical-).

What is block 9?

Block 9 was a major part of the medical school campus, it housed the student biology laboratories, animal testing laboratories, lecture theaters, cell pathology and much more. The building has a lot of rooms, labs, cage rooms, hall, corridors etc.

It became empty and derelict when the medical schools of London merged and later this building was not needed.

My visit

I heard it was doable from Oakley and then Zombizza put up the lead practically the same time.

The night before I was out and ready to meet Gabe, The raw and a few others for some high stuff in the city. Had some time to kill before I met them and seeing as we had organised to visit the place properly the day after, I went to check access and security. All was fine and we were in the next day with UrbanAlex, Boomstick84, Gabe and The_Raw. Had a laugh and saw some nice labs and specimens. We got through the site finding needles, bio hazardous waste, poison boxes, glass tubes with bits of rat in them, some mad sciencey glassware (Including the space bong) and some nice decay as well.

I hope you enjoy my dodgy report and pics, I'm sure The_Raw will show me up a bit with his shots! Cheers! (y)

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The_Raw

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Shots look good to me mate, captured it well. Really enjoyed this place, reminded me of CMH with the decay in places and it's not often you find a whole room of rats livers and human thymus samples in wax :D

 

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Looks a cracking wander this, great pictures :)

 

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Mmmmm rat lungs yummy :p

A great selection of images there mate, some nice peely action too. Would like a wander around here myself (y)

 

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Quality! If only I didn't have such bad luck in London...

 

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Samples?! In wax?! Lots of decay?! LEMME AT IT!!! ;)

Good stuff Mr Slayyyaaa! (y)

 

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What a nice place! Very cool stuff and nice shots man!

 

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Nicely Done Slayaaaa. Nice set of pics. I need to get myself here

 
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