Towers Hospital Leicester
The Explore
What a fucking weekend, visited with Urbexbandoned
Got to Leicester early with a certain post office on our minds. After a quick recce of the access, I was perhaps a little over-cautious to be honest and convinced T do go and check out some other locations and return when things looked a bit quieter. Fast forward several hours later and isn't hindsight is a wonderful thing? If we had have gone for the access earlier it would've unfortunately resulted in finding the same sealed up part that we did, only after the assault course that we embarked on. A big "fuck you' to a CCTV camera as we legged it past it, and an eventual climb through a window as a pigeon almost implanted Mrs. Pigeon's birdgina's fluff into my forehead. Rewind....
Walked through a shopping centre full of humans in the hunt for a bit of nightclub action, car parks, more humans, chavs, more cameras with obviously no mother fucker at the screen end. Slipped underneath Leicester for a good hour, sometimes if you're necky it's amazing how you can wonder away from the normal people and through a brown door into service tunnels and fire escape stairwells until you eventually bump into a high viz mongaloid in the underground delivery yard who only responds to any question with the sound "yarp or narp"
After being escorted back to the shopping centre I realised that maybe we had just met the missing link between ape and man. A slap up candlelit dinner for two in Maccies later (my treat ) and after walking several miles around checking out a few other possible locations we headed towards Towers.... So I had a pop at this place about 14 months ago and unfortunately we walked into a live workshop area and got busted within about 5 minutes before getting to the main Hospital bit. I was surprised to find that the whole area and the access area i had in mind had been completely flattened. The first part was a walk in thanks to the demo which was well in progress, corridors that i wanted to see last year had sadly been reduced to big piles of bricks. Only the front area and old part of the hospital remains and there may be even less now. The part that i wanted to see was the wards area and unfortunately they had started ripping down suspended ceilings and removing radiators and stuff like that and generally making a mess of the floors which in turn made it difficult to photograph. After a long time walking around the outside of this part we eventually found a broken window which i climbed through then swiftly locked myself in like a bellend as i let the door to the room close behind me Luckily Urbexbandoned was there to climb in to rescue me lol.
The History
(robbed as always )
Due to population growth and the refusal of the Commissioners in Lunacy to sanction an enlargement of the County Asylum, in 1865 the Leicester Corporation decided to build an asylum for the town’s pauper lunatics. A 30 acre site in Humberstone was purchased for the new Leicester Borough Asylum by the Leicester Borough Council in 1864, for the sum of £8,000. The site was purchased from the executors of the Broadbent estate, having formerly been the home of Benjamin Broadbent (1813 – 1862). Benjamin Broadbent had formed the company of Broadbents Ltd in Leicester in 1840 and by 1861 had amassed sufficient funds to build a house known as Victoria House on a large estate in Humberstone. This was a substantial property and is described in the deeds as a mansion house with stables, coach house, vineries, orchard, houses, conservatories and outbuildings.
Anyway, glad to get to see whats left of this place and document a little bit of what it was like before the imminent conversion or whatever they're doing to the place, just wish I wasn't my usual lazy self with the tripod (or lack of the use of it) and got some better pictures but here they are anyway...
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As always thanks for looking and feedback always appreciated
The Explore
What a fucking weekend, visited with Urbexbandoned
Got to Leicester early with a certain post office on our minds. After a quick recce of the access, I was perhaps a little over-cautious to be honest and convinced T do go and check out some other locations and return when things looked a bit quieter. Fast forward several hours later and isn't hindsight is a wonderful thing? If we had have gone for the access earlier it would've unfortunately resulted in finding the same sealed up part that we did, only after the assault course that we embarked on. A big "fuck you' to a CCTV camera as we legged it past it, and an eventual climb through a window as a pigeon almost implanted Mrs. Pigeon's birdgina's fluff into my forehead. Rewind....Walked through a shopping centre full of humans in the hunt for a bit of nightclub action, car parks, more humans, chavs, more cameras with obviously no mother fucker at the screen end. Slipped underneath Leicester for a good hour, sometimes if you're necky it's amazing how you can wonder away from the normal people and through a brown door into service tunnels and fire escape stairwells until you eventually bump into a high viz mongaloid in the underground delivery yard who only responds to any question with the sound "yarp or narp"
) and after walking several miles around checking out a few other possible locations we headed towards Towers.... So I had a pop at this place about 14 months ago and unfortunately we walked into a live workshop area and got busted within about 5 minutes before getting to the main Hospital bit. I was surprised to find that the whole area and the access area i had in mind had been completely flattened. The first part was a walk in thanks to the demo which was well in progress, corridors that i wanted to see last year had sadly been reduced to big piles of bricks. Only the front area and old part of the hospital remains and there may be even less now. The part that i wanted to see was the wards area and unfortunately they had started ripping down suspended ceilings and removing radiators and stuff like that and generally making a mess of the floors which in turn made it difficult to photograph. After a long time walking around the outside of this part we eventually found a broken window which i climbed through then swiftly locked myself in like a bellend as i let the door to the room close behind me Luckily Urbexbandoned was there to climb in to rescue me lol.The History
(robbed as always
)Due to population growth and the refusal of the Commissioners in Lunacy to sanction an enlargement of the County Asylum, in 1865 the Leicester Corporation decided to build an asylum for the town’s pauper lunatics. A 30 acre site in Humberstone was purchased for the new Leicester Borough Asylum by the Leicester Borough Council in 1864, for the sum of £8,000. The site was purchased from the executors of the Broadbent estate, having formerly been the home of Benjamin Broadbent (1813 – 1862). Benjamin Broadbent had formed the company of Broadbents Ltd in Leicester in 1840 and by 1861 had amassed sufficient funds to build a house known as Victoria House on a large estate in Humberstone. This was a substantial property and is described in the deeds as a mansion house with stables, coach house, vineries, orchard, houses, conservatories and outbuildings.
Anyway, glad to get to see whats left of this place and document a little bit of what it was like before the imminent conversion or whatever they're doing to the place, just wish I wasn't my usual lazy self with the tripod (or lack of the use of it) and got some better pictures but here they are anyway...
The Pictures
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As always thanks for looking and feedback always appreciated
