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Ooh thats tidy, very nice find. There can't be many prisons in the UK that
are derelict, with the overcrowding that you hear about these days I'm
amazed that this site hasn't been put back into use.

Bish ;)
 
Had a little nosey around this place today, Very interesting indeed. Couldn't be easier to get into :p
 
Aldington is featured in today's The Sun (August 18th 2006 p 38-39). It's part of The Sun's Prison Campaign, asking why prisoners are being released early because of overcrowding when facilities like Aldington stand empty.

Worth purchasing just to see how they report the story.

A couple of pictures from urbex|uk were used - and they did ask permission. However, the captioning is suspect: what is supposedly a prisoner's cell with working TV is the guardhouse.

All the best,
Simon
 
Simon;8330; said:
A couple of pictures from urbex|uk were used - and they did ask permission. However, the captioning is suspect: what is supposedly a prisoner's cell with working TV is the guardhouse.

That's so totally gay. Really annoys me when people do that.
 
Lone Explorer;8351; said:
did you get any money from the Scum. Good you got some images in print.

Yes - I'm being paid for them :)

All the best,
Simon
 
I've just had a wonderful e-mail from someone who has admitted to smashing up various parts of Aldington Prison. It's amusing to say the least.

Obviously the e-mail address and/or name could be faked, but here it is for your amusement:

Dear, Simon Cornwell, if that's your name or the website, I am not entirely sure...

Attached to this is the actual answers from a 'vandal' as you so abruptly put it answering the questions to your rather poor assumptions, if you'd like to take your time in reading your mistakes then reading the actual account, I'd be much appreciated.


Oh and one more thing...

The prison is MINE!


The security hut within the compound was devoid of life. We expected to find the interior totally destroyed, but it was intact and the electricity was still on. Vandals were probably deterred by the vile smell emanating from various rooms, but we weren't deterred. (I sometimes which I could recreate the smell of the locations I visit; you get used to stink after a while).

Hm, no, we used this hut as a doss to get away from the boring village life of Aldington. And the vile smell is that of Ricky Burden who pissed in the toilet. Oh and.. It's smashed now alright!!

Looking north-west, we could see across the centre administration buildings towards the white painted dormitory blocks with their individual cells (Hythe, Romney, Healthcare, Rye and Hastings dorms), over the impressive fence and on to the officer's quarters beyond (now all private housing).

Yes, one of which happens to be my house.

A lone Monopoly board had made its way from the Assocation rooms to the south, no doubt brought there by vandals. Its inclusion here was oddly startling.

Good observation. And yes, we did bring it there, but it was there with dominoes aswell, if you had noticed and rocks and mud.. By the Boxers/Socks drawers is actually my pile of mud and rocks. We had fun there, throwing rocks at eachother and whatnot... Great times...

Unfortunately someone had punched the governor square in the face, blasting his visage, and oddly extending his mouth. Whilst deplorable, I wonder if a prisoner did it, as a two fingers up to the prison and its governor. It was odd that the damage was limited to this one person, suggesting it was motivated as a personal attack. If so, it's a bold visualisation of the frustration, anger, resentment and hatred of some of the incarcerated against the administrative staff.

... Actually no, he wasn't punched in the face, he was smashed in by my friend's foot, as a bit of fun, and as he was the one that was some what impersonating jesus, my friend saw him as the easiest target. And it was funny, and then he hit it with a metal pole.

Someone had thrown two halves of a child's bike into the wire and it was now enmeshed in the barbs. Such was the brutality of this fence that it suggested the bike was originally complete when thrown up there; but the barbed wire had cruelly ripped it apart.

Again, your thesis is flawed.. That bike belonged to my friends little brother and we smashed it up with a car then threw it up there.

All that remained in Aldington's chapel was a smashed TV.

We smoked a joint there then smashed the TV (which came from the Watchers Hut), and I cut my hand on the window to the left of it, rather deeply...


Thankyou for your time in reading this entertainment supplement. Good-day!

`rino.
 
A very random email Simon, I wonder why they went to the trouble :question:

Making themselves out to be idiots, i like
 
ahh t'is but the sun newspaper. what else would one expect? :lol:

still nice to see the pics simon.
 
Simon;9577; said:
I've just had a wonderful e-mail from someone who has admitted to smashing up various parts of Aldington Prison. It's amusing to say the least.

Obviously the e-mail address and/or name could be faked, but here it is for your amusement:

*APPLAUSE*

Hilarious. I especially like the "your flawed thesis" comment in relation to the bike in the wire.. even though you'd said "...suggested it was complete before being thrown up there"..

And the "Actually no, he wasn't punched in the face, he was smashed in by my friend's foot...........and then he hit it with a metal pole" I mean, Jesus, to suggest it was punched in when it was actually kicked and struck with a pole... Oh dear Simon well I think you walked right into that one, good job they corrected you eh?!

Hilarious insight into the mind of a vandal.. and I dare say concurrent with everything we imagined.
 

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