Hellingly Asylum June 2009

I made a trip down to Hastings with a view to seeing the pier. However, I was physically unable to get onto it, which was a shame. I was suprised that the pier where I remember having an ice-cream with my parents and our previous dog a few years ago had shut. I also went there because I love the seaside, I had annual leave to use up and I forever look for opportunities to get out of this town.

Visited Hellingly with Patch, Chubs and later met up with Little Miss Bump and her friend. Had been here a few years ago at night and it was nice to see the place in day light. Hellingly didn't smell like other abandoned hospitals but perhaps that was on account of the corridors now being open and exposed to the outside world. It was an very grey but warm day and although they moved too quickly for photograph, there were two lovely robins hopping around in the bushes.

Although a lot of graffiti is just mindless vandalism, there were some gorgeous pieces in the main hall including one that had me totally captivated of an angel with a gun and two dobermann dogs. I love detailed pictures of angels and demons. There was a cool demon there too but sadly some idiot had spoiled it by drawing a phallus over it.

The angel...if anyone has a better quality photo of this that they can let me use as my desktop wall paper, please do let me know.


The demon. The person who defaced it also wrote a fitting description of himself alongside it.


Simple but really cute.


Killer robots are awesome!


A ghostly Victorian gentleman.


The Main Hall.








I loved the sinister clown with grenades.




To see the rest of the pictures, go here: http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r92/Dystopian_Wanderer/Hellingly Asylum 2009/

Great Pics, love the sound of this place

The Pic's are well cool, I went There years ago with My Friend Rob, None of the Pic's were there Then
All the Houses oppisite used to belong to the Hospital for the Nurses etc, and were Sold off when it closed down in 1996...

Great shots there D...I got the same shot of the angel,dont think its much different to yours



ps..where was the clown..didnt see that one..its brill

Can't explain where it was other than that the floor was pryed up.

Cool photos, almost visited this the other week, but decided to wait and do it with Gangeox. Didn't want to upset him....

I went there yesterday with my friend. We went at night last month, but as we were approaching the police came and told us to leave.

I'm absolutely obsessed with Hellingly at the moment, from the road it looks like one building but it stretches back for miles and looks really fascinating. The thing that I find interesting is that it's on the same site as a mental hospital that is still open, yet it's always so quiet. Can't wait to go again!!

when you say the corridoors are open do you mean absolutely no security? just curious, plan to go at some point but not for ages and ages. wonder if its worth a trip with the kids, can you wander around outside or is it fenced?

great pics, love the angel

There are enough of us to PM about access regarding Hellingly.

soz, wasnt after access, reading that back it looks that way. wondered if like cane hill you coulk wak round the perimeter.

I went with my mate recently, once in the day and again that night, we spent a good 5 hours there. You can walk around the perimeter but the path is very overgrown with brambles. I'd 100% recommend that you go if you ever get a chance, I can't wait to go again!

Hastings Pier really isn't as exciting as it looks, there was hardly anything there even when it was still open, and it's incredibly dangerous now. There was talk of the owners being made to fix it up, but it's looking unlikely so it will probably go the same way as the West Pier in Brighton, and collapse into the sea.

Great pics! I love the graffitti. You could edit out the 'phallus' in photoshop or similar if you or a friend have access to it.