West Park Mortuary - Jan 2013

Had a great night out and managed to visit two mortuarys in one night. One I'd been to previously but since one of our group hadn't seen either, it made sense to pop in while we were in the area.

This report is West Park, which we've all seen before, but as I started exploring late and completely missed West Park 'Asylum' and then to find out there was one bit remaining it just had to be done before it was too late. I'd have been gutted to have missed it totally.

So we jumped in the car late one evening and headed down... The place is fairly small, and I've tried to include a few angles that we've not seen before, and I've kept the number of photos to a minimum.

Visited with Shot_in_the_Dark and Pen15 who I met for the first time.







The famous brain blocks...












Sadly Brain-Henge was gone, and also the rat clock wasn't still in clock formation


Cheers

thats grim ! nice one

nice work thanks for sharing

As UE-OMJ has already mentioned, this place has been photographed a fair amount previously, I won't blab on, other than too say I am happy to have visited this little piece of history. big thanks to UE-OMJ for taking me with. on with the pics...


m1 by shot in the darkness, on Flickr


m2 by shot in the darkness, on Flickr


m3 by shot in the darkness, on Flickr


m4 by shot in the darkness, on Flickr

cheers

Good work guys

Grim, forbidding sort of place, bet u loved it mate !! Thanks for the great pics all of you

Nothing like a bit of brain tissue,great shot both.

Tissue blocks left? I wonder what else they skimped on when they shut this place down. Certainly those two rats found something that disagreed with them!

Good job as usual fella

whitelaw said:

Tissue blocks left? I wonder what else they skimped on when they shut this place down. Certainly those two rats found something that disagreed with them!

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Pretty sure that second one isn't a rat. :/
Again, I really don't know if I want to do a place like this, it looks so interesting but so morbid.
I really like the photos with the open doors.

Nice!, I bet these places take on a completely different persona in the dark, Top of my list.

Another nice set of shots from this cracking little explore!

See what I mean? Another dead people place!!

Great stuff fellas.

This might explain where some of the brain blocks have gone...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/7-x-FFPE-.../261127149592?clk_rvr_id=435193113142&afsrc=1
WTAF

MrDan said:

This might explain where some of the brain blocks have gone...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/7-x-FFPE-.../261127149592?clk_rvr_id=435193113142&afsrc=1
WTAF

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Oh dear

No matter both the illegality of the NHS leaving them there and people nicking them, I wonder what the legality and ethics are of selling them....

Great sets of images to you both as always.

It was a great adventure and memories I shall not forget for a long time.

Thanks for a great night!!

Sorry Folks, Just the one from me. As I would only be replicating your fine works

mookster said:

No matter both the illegality of the NHS leaving them there and people nicking them, I wonder what the legality and ethics are of selling them....

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Under the Human Tissue Act, 2004, it is unlawful to sell organs or tissue for the purposes of transplantation, but not for 'other purposes'.

It's certainly unethical though: even if, as the seller claims, these were from a 'genuine' source, the way in which such samples were typically obtained in years gone by (i.e. without the consent or knowledge of the patients or their families) may now be seen as morally dubious.

Furthermore, it would be unethical to sell them unless the deceased expressly consented to this while alive and while of sufficient mental capacity. The seller would need to have that consent somewhere in writing as well.

In any case, the sale of body parts of any kind is expressly forbidden by Ebay, see here: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/remains.html

Summary: the seller's a crook. Human body parts shouldn't be bought or sold.

Thanks for sharing you lot, great work, great images , bet it takes on a really odd mood in the dark in there, shame about squirrel time and and brainhenge, ah well , some things are only meant for a time, but they can be 'Rebuilt' haha.

I had heard about the ebay thing a while back and a good mate on 28 told me that they had alerted ebay to the fact and the sale was ended, whether thru them or their own policing i dont know , morally thats going well too far , they must have no principles or just plain ignorance, as for me I would feel like a modern day Burke or Hare to do something like that, very grim and unsavoury indeed!