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And so we return to one of my very first locations, nearly 4 years after my first visit.
Various plans had been hatched in the last couple of years to find a way to see this again, as very soon after my first visit the old - and only - access was comprehensively sealed. But news of the coming redevelopment of the communal part of RAF Upper Heyford, and the removal of items from here by the heritage team meant maybe our luck was in....and it was!
The hospital at Upper Heyford was one of the last additions to the military site, being constructed in 1980. It closed along with the rest of the base in 1994 meaning it has spent longer derelict than it did in operational use!
90% of this place is in total darkness as only the patient rooms on the upper floor have any form of natural light going into them, and it is a complete maze of rooms going all over the place in the centre so we got lost numerous times! It made an interesting exercise in light painting to say the least.
More here http://www.flickr.com/photos/mookie427/sets/72157633181604772/
Various plans had been hatched in the last couple of years to find a way to see this again, as very soon after my first visit the old - and only - access was comprehensively sealed. But news of the coming redevelopment of the communal part of RAF Upper Heyford, and the removal of items from here by the heritage team meant maybe our luck was in....and it was!
The hospital at Upper Heyford was one of the last additions to the military site, being constructed in 1980. It closed along with the rest of the base in 1994 meaning it has spent longer derelict than it did in operational use!
90% of this place is in total darkness as only the patient rooms on the upper floor have any form of natural light going into them, and it is a complete maze of rooms going all over the place in the centre so we got lost numerous times! It made an interesting exercise in light painting to say the least.
More here http://www.flickr.com/photos/mookie427/sets/72157633181604772/
