West Park Hospital, Epsom, September '09

West Park Hospital has always been an interesting place to explore, and seems to become more fascinating as decay and general decline sets in - although lately there is a lot of vandalism starting to appear. Having planned this trip for a few weeks, it was great to finally meet up with the group who included DP members King Al, Klempner69, Harvester, Tommo and Drypulse.

The sun was beaming in, and it was ideal for 4 hours wandering through the vast hospital grounds.

It was especially interesting to see the remains of Honiton and Hereford ward which suffered an arson attack several years ago and looks more like a garden than a ward.

Also armed with the newly purchased Fuji S5600 camera which was sold to me by rjg_scotland.

Here are the pictures, enjoy.

thats a nice place there and some cracking pictures aswell,impressive

top day out, cheer fella, finished of with a nice drink in the pub sat on the lawn with the beating sun on our backs, well in the eyes for some lol

it was good thought, will pop a post up at some point

Cheers 'diehardlove'. It is a nice place.

Good to meet you Tommo.

Here is a very short video panning round the top floor of the creche.

Small world mr bones good 2 see you...your vid takes ages mate?

Still don't know where that illusive room with green curtains is tho..lol

Hi Indy, good to bump into you and Robsey, not seen either of you in ages!

As for the video, its probably because i didnt compress it before uploading to photobucket.

Lovely shots there..great purchase if you ask me..can I add a few of mine so as not to start another thread..
Admin

Corridors

Fridge..smelt a bit minging

Hospital radio studio?

Day room..very rotten floors

Huxley ward

Admin graff

Admin office carpet


I enjoyed my day at West Park very much and want to thank Mr Bones for an excellant tour.

Those are some top notch shots there Klempner69. Awesome.

stu pic one is really good fair play,nice to meet new peeps also

i might as well add some of mine here also if that ok!!,they not great, not done much above ground and its a whole diffrent world lol

These are great Tommo, i am a bit confused as to how you managed that perspective in the padded cell!

Nice one.

Some great shots there mr_bones et all. I'm glad you're happy with the camera, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling knowing it's being put to good use

mr_bones said:

These are great Tommo, i am a bit confused as to how you managed that perspective in the padded cell!

Nice one.

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stu was on my shoulder and the 2 girls where on his lol, na i just lifted the tripod with camera to the ceilling and then used remote , about 50 pics later and then we did about 50 pics of the hoovers, my arms where killing

t_o_m_m_o said:

stu was on my shoulder and the 2 girls where on his lol, na i just lifted the tripod with camera to the ceilling and then used remote , about 50 pics later and then we did about 50 pics of the hoovers, my arms where killing

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it's quite an effective little trick isn't it, I should do it more.

rjg_scotland said:

it's quite an effective little trick isn't it, I should do it more.

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wanted to try and get that cctv look from the pic, most new places now would have cctv on the high wall or ceiling,but would be even better with a wide angle lens

but like i said your arms ache after about 10 attempts and its not easy to keep the camera still, thats why there was so many blurred images, in the end i rested on the wall and the ceiling to lock it in place, still not that sharp though

West park

Looks like you all had a great day....Stu was full of it when i got home from drag racing...........all his pics where good........sad looking place in parts with all those clothes & shoes....just like a pic from Auswitchz

Simply beautiful. I never tire of see pics of WP, you guys have done an ace job.
Tommo - what camera / lens are you using? you have really clean pics.

I'm sure i've seen a couple of step ladders at WP, you could use them for your cctv interest. Nice idea

Excellent photos all of you. It's great to see some different perspectives of an oft photographed place.

great photos you lot, I can't get enough of this place

am i seeing that right? admin with the door open?

great shots.