Graylingwell Hospital August 2011

I have only recently been introduced to the world of urban exploring and i am enjoying myself! Only my second trip out, before this i went to see what was left of hellingly but forgot to take any pictures because i was having such a good time! Love how nature is slowly taking this land back from civilisation. Visited with a couple of mates after hearing about it from someone that used to work there. The whole place is being converted into a posh housing estate by the looks of it and there are signs of demo everywhere. Im not a photographer as im sure you will be able to tell as soon as you see the pictures but i did my best. Enjoy!

Here is a brief bit of history for anyone that does not know;

Graylingwell Hospital opened in 1897 on Graylingwell Farm, former home of novelist Anna Sewell of 'Black Beauty' fame and located to the north of Chichester. It was designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield, in what was to be his sole asylum design. The farmhouse stood next to the 'Grayling Well' which supplied the hospital. It comprised large main buildings with a water tower, an Isolation Hospital, administration blocks, wards, a Chapel, and two farms (later three), detached superintendents residence and compact arrow plan main asylum building. The original farmhouse was retained and converted to accommodate private patients, the whole amounting to three hundred and seventy acres.

Source: www.theatretrust.org.uk

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On with the pictures!























My personal favourite!


Thanks for checking out, planning to visit more sites in the future so will post on here!

nice stuff bud, seams to have opened up since the redevelopment started remember seeing the brochures for it to the right of the stage when we where there last

I enjoyed your report.

Thanks for posting!

Nice first report matey

I enjoyed that. Ur pics are good. I especially like pic 3 for some reason

Revisit

I recently took another trip to graylingwell to find the stuff that we missed after being escorted from the premises last time. We got up onto the roof and i had to take a few pictures with my poor camera phone!







There was also an entrance to the loft space but i didnt really want to go in there because there was far too much bird poo in there.



There is also more signs of vandalism in the main hall. It's sad how quickly a place can change in 3 weeks!

the hall and stage has changed so much in a matter of weeks, guess it must be coming down. Excellent first report, you seem to have wondered a bit higher up than me.