A little History
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.
The explore
Well, I have to say that this was one of the most momentous explore weekends I have ever had! We had quite an eventful lead up to this, with numerous fails in Leicester town earlier that day it was becoming apparent that maybe success wasn't on the radar. We started out trying to find entry in to a nightclub which resulted in us infiltrating the Live service area of a Shopping centre, this was after scnning the entire car park for entry abd getting eyed by a group of chavs in a Corsa. Going through doors we shouldn't have really been going through and ended up with someone that looked like the Chuckle brothers leading us out
Then we decided to go and try the post office, this was probably the funniest part. Getting over a huge fucking gate with spikes on the top resulted in me impaling my leg on one of them, ripping my jeans in several places, getting myself stuck between some railings, running across a roof, going down what seemed like the longest ladder in history, through a window to find the place was sealed, tight! a pigeon nearly fly in to his head which was quite funny and I sat and had a fag looking at my broken skin and starting to feel the pain 2: Still, we soldiered on! Eventually found success and got to Towers, parked up, really easy to get in to, spent over an hour just exploring trying to get in to the wards. tried getting through the smallest window in the world, seriously!!
Finally found a broken window, inside was a door on a catch, it's allright he said, you stay here and I will go in and see if I can open another window. I watched as he walked through the door and the door shut behind him. I just had to laugh, oh fuck, so I had to get in, undo the door, get back out and get the stuff and then get back in again but we were in. It wasn't disappointing. We didn't see everything that I have seen in previous reports as the demo has taken hold. Still lots to see but I imagine that within a few weeks this will be gone.
We were having a nice wander when we were in the front of the building and suddenly I heard HT say secca was outside, all that time we had been out there making noise, walking over bricks, laughing and no one had been there. I stood by the wall and then moved to the window, luckily it had net curtains as he was face to face with me trying the windows. The rest of the explore was fine, didn't see him again at all. The leg got glued up too.
He actually thought he could get through this!!!2: all I could do was laugh!
Hope you enjoy!
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.
The explore
Well, I have to say that this was one of the most momentous explore weekends I have ever had! We had quite an eventful lead up to this, with numerous fails in Leicester town earlier that day it was becoming apparent that maybe success wasn't on the radar. We started out trying to find entry in to a nightclub which resulted in us infiltrating the Live service area of a Shopping centre, this was after scnning the entire car park for entry abd getting eyed by a group of chavs in a Corsa. Going through doors we shouldn't have really been going through and ended up with someone that looked like the Chuckle brothers leading us out
Then we decided to go and try the post office, this was probably the funniest part. Getting over a huge fucking gate with spikes on the top resulted in me impaling my leg on one of them, ripping my jeans in several places, getting myself stuck between some railings, running across a roof, going down what seemed like the longest ladder in history, through a window to find the place was sealed, tight! a pigeon nearly fly in to his head which was quite funny and I sat and had a fag looking at my broken skin and starting to feel the pain 2: Still, we soldiered on! Eventually found success and got to Towers, parked up, really easy to get in to, spent over an hour just exploring trying to get in to the wards. tried getting through the smallest window in the world, seriously!!Finally found a broken window, inside was a door on a catch, it's allright he said, you stay here and I will go in and see if I can open another window. I watched as he walked through the door and the door shut behind him. I just had to laugh, oh fuck, so I had to get in, undo the door, get back out and get the stuff and then get back in again but we were in. It wasn't disappointing. We didn't see everything that I have seen in previous reports as the demo has taken hold. Still lots to see but I imagine that within a few weeks this will be gone.
We were having a nice wander when we were in the front of the building and suddenly I heard HT say secca was outside, all that time we had been out there making noise, walking over bricks, laughing and no one had been there. I stood by the wall and then moved to the window, luckily it had net curtains as he was face to face with me trying the windows. The rest of the explore was fine, didn't see him again at all. The leg got glued up too.
He actually thought he could get through this!!!
2: all I could do was laugh!
Hope you enjoy!
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