Final Harperbury - Pic Heavy - April 2012

Yeh I know Harperbury seems to be my second home recently. But a while ago I did an explore with SammiLeigh (who's Step Mum worked there) and managed to see a whole lot more than I'd seen so far. I'm hoping/guessing there's stuff here that other people havent seen either as this stuff I've not seen posted anywhere before...

It's a bit of a long post, but I've kept pics low res to help. 3 stages to this one...


Firstly we started at the pool building, I wont post stuff we've seen before, but these were new to me...











This doll had been at the site for ages and I'm amazed it's still there...





Now this building I was VERY lucky to find open, it's always been very well secured up until now. The ground floor was shot and I didnt dare walk far into it, but upstairs was fine, and it made such a nice change to find a building in relatively good condition.





But what made this great was the contents in the downstairs area. Loads of kids toys, loads of percussion instruments (like we all played with in infants school), and something that looked like a big plasma ball. Also laying around was loads of padding... Not to mention some wooden benches and even a pool table!!!





















Upstairs it was nice to see unbroken sinks, mirrors and windows...







The famous sofa had been kicked upside down so we put it back in it's original location AND found the cushions so make it whole again...




Then Samii took us to this old building, on face value didnt seem too interesting but round the back we found 2 underground boilers, and what may have been the start of some of the tunnels we've heard about...


















After this we went to an old bar/club house that was right in the middle of the live area. This is the bit where security decided to come and have a chat with us, but luckily we were in and out before they got to us, we were just getting back in the car when they pulled up and asked us about ''our mission''














This slanty bar isnt a dodgy photo, the room really had sunk in the middle, those doors are never going to close ever again!











And finally a nice old fountain in the bar gardens...





Thanks for looking and for bearing with me through my Harperbury obsession (and bucket-loads of photos), but I really do think it's finished now. I'm happy I carried on a bit longer with this site, and thanks to Samii for showing me a few more bits that I didnt even know existed.

Steve

Nice stuff dude. You must have covered nearly every single inch of the place now!

Nice stuff, have you found the mythical but legendary row of padded cells yet ?

great one! i havent seen some of them so nice...im gathering you didnt fly the plane through there.....

tumbles said:

Nice stuff, have you found the mythical but legendary row of padded cells yet ?

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I'm fairly sure there's no such thing, I've been everywhere now

omj624p said:

I'm fairly sure there's no such thing, I've been everywhere now

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oh yes the is.....

Seriously? Where? All I've seen is 2 seperate padded rooms, but all padding removed (except the floor) and what used to be a padded play area. The asbesdos guys are in stripping all the buildings now so there will soon be nothing left in any of them.

oh shoot me now! i totally miss red it ..apologies..but i did notice alot of white padded cell stuff outside on the floor of the building that the green cell is in..

Yeh the white padded room is long since gone, but the padding was outside for a long time. On my last visit there most of it was in a skip now

I feel like I've missed out on so much...

yyou may feel as if youve missed out on alot there ..but youve also seen alot more than others...is the green one sill in tact

cracking report great pics thanks for sharing

It's a shame to see everything stripped out, especially the padded cells. But it was good, thank you for taking me along, I think we covered just about everything! Great pictures by the way
What's this I keep hearing about some underground tunnel? I'd love to check it out.

Ninja Kitten said:

yyou may feel as if youve missed out on alot there ..but youve also seen alot more than others...is the green one sill in tact

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Trust me, the green one you saw isnt there now :'(

Check the post I did on 9th April ...
[ame]http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=21867[/ame]


And here's the remains of the white padded cell...



Steve

samiileigh said:

It's a shame to see everything stripped out, especially the padded cells. But it was good, thank you for taking me along, I think we covered just about everything! Great pictures by the way
What's this I keep hearing about some underground tunnel? I'd love to check it out.

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Apparently there are service tunnels running underneath and between most buildings, pipes for water, electrics, etc, but we think they are sealed off now. Did you notice all the cement bumps everywhere over the site, we think they might have been to cover access points/manhole covers, etc


In this pic you can see a square hole in the middle of the screen....

did you follow them? similar in alot of hospitals..we did them at talgarth and you pop up all over the place..one of the reasons that work hasnt started there is because of the bats living in them..

Great report,thanks for sharing.

Ninja Kitten said:

did you follow them? similar in alot of hospitals..we did them at talgarth and you pop up all over the place..one of the reasons that work hasnt started there is because of the bats living in them..

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No We never felt brave enough to jump in, getting in and out again didnt look too easy.

omj624p said:

Apparently there are service tunnels running underneath and between most buildings, pipes for water, electrics, etc, but we think they are sealed off now. Did you notice all the cement bumps everywhere over the site, we think they might have been to cover access points/manhole covers, etc

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Oh no way, that's pretty cool! I've heard of similar things in other places but it never occurred to me that there might be something like that at Harperbury. You know I always wondered what those bumps were I thought they were just to stop cars or something... It sounds stupid now I say it.

Shame it's covered up now, would be pretty interesting going down there!

samiileigh said:

Oh no way, that's pretty cool! I've heard of similar things in other places but it never occurred to me that there might be something like that at Harperbury. You know I always wondered what those bumps were I thought they were just to stop cars or something... It sounds stupid now I say it.

Shame it's covered up now, would be pretty interesting going down there!

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That hole is still open. I could drop you down there if you want. You can borrow my torch

omj624p said:

That hole is still open. I could drop you down there if you want. You can borrow my torch

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Challenge accepted.