'Santa Sevs' - Severalls - Christmas 2013

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Severalls Asylum
December 2013
Visited with sweet_pea, UE-OMJ, Urban X, Pretty Vacant, Pen15 and about 25-30 other nutters dressed as Father Christmas.
I'm not entirely sure who else was there from the forum, so please let me know if you were there!


The initial plan was to pick sweet_pea up at 3am and take a leisurely drive over to Severalls and pick up some Breakfast on the way, however we inadvertently decided to have an extra hours worth of beauty sleep for the group photos...
I got a wake-up call from him at 3:50, by 4 I was out the door with a red bull in hand semi-ready to start the mission of 'Santa Sevs'

A massive thank you to UE-OMJ for letting me use his sigma lens, as my lens was playing up and to him and Urban X for giving us a guided tour!

A great game of cat and mouse with the famous friendly security and a reasonable policeman who actually used to work in the kitchens here. Hope you can all enjoy the photos and feel free to add yours if you were there!!

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Everyone setting up their cameras for the group shots.
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Mindless? Possibly but not really. Not to your taste? Obviously, you've made that clear... but stupidity? I'd like you to explain that one.

Who said anything had to be urbex? And where do I sign up for the urbex police because I'd like to judge people on the internet too.
 
A lovely shot OMJ, I couldn't get the whole building in with my kit lens!
 
Awesome Shots MrDan and UE-OMJ!
02:30 Saturday morning:
I kiss my sleeping wife on the forehead. "I'm just off to the abandoned lunatic asylum to meet 25 strangers, I've got my rope and facemask"

I was umming and arring about whether to even go to this, I knew how good the secca was here, most people struggle to get a full explore whilst trying to be stealthy, let alone 30-40 people dressed as Santa. But I've been way too anti-social lately, and this looked too fun to miss.

Waiting...
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It was definitely more of a social than a serious explore, and we all knew that. It was pure comedy waiting in the pre-agreed room, and seeing more and more Santas arrive.

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PrettyVacant:
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Mr Dan:
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Cheers to everyone that I met, everyone was lovely. No ego's no politics, just fun. We got a couple of group shots (that took 50 mins, it was like trying to herd cats) then we all instantly scattered in small groups. I wasn't expecting to get any exploring today, so the rest of my time here was pure bonus. I'm surprised we got 4 hours in here TBH! Was a pleasure having a whistle stop run round with Sweet Pea, Mr Dan, and OMJ.

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It was my first time being caught by Mike there, and he was a gent and a true professional.

"oh and you can take that stupid quote off your signature" - Essex Police

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Video to follow, I've got no idea how I'm gonna get all of this footage down to a 3 min vid!
 
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What a day!!!

It was great to meet old friends and make many new ones ;)

Would not have missed this one!

Great to see your images folks and I will have to get some up myself. Possibly be ready by June next year :p

Thanks for sharing :)
 
What a day!!!

It was great to meet old friends and make many new ones ;)

Would not have missed this one!

Great to see your images folks and I will have to get some up myself. Possibly be ready by June next year :p

Thanks for sharing :)

Was great to finally meet you sir!
Hoping you got a really nice sharp one of the overall group!

It was so lovely to see strangers going up to each other and introducing themselves, and complete strangers helping each other out and working together.

Oh and the food! I cant even remember who was handing out the stollen, but it was beautiful, thank you!
 
Pity I live so far away, but you've made up for it in photos, thanks for that.
Looked fun :)

(Got stopped by the local farmer (Nice bloke though) and his dog (Nice dog as well as it didn't want to bite me) yesterday before I got anywhere near getting into what is left of Talgarth :( )
 
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nobody causing any harm or damage.backs up what i say despite my job.a world of difference between that and what i normally have to sort. well done everybody and happy christmas
 
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