Her Majesties Prison Blundeston - Cat B - October 2016

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HMP Blundeston - Catagory B

Well after spotting a report elsewhere from last week for HMP Blundeston I was a sad to discover I had missed out on it being open to local folk for a day at the weekend before being handed over to demo crews on Monday :-(

I thought I’d still have a crack at it and can confirm its now locked up with high vis demo chaps wandering around inside and a JCB on site. It quickly became apparent a B&Q extendable ladder was not going to deal with the two 22ft steel perimeter fences and my jeans are not an adequate protection of a gentleman’s precious area against the rolled razor wire on top!

So ‘’Operation Reverse Prison Break’’ was go go go… access is one way in one way out and involved me spending almost two hours squatting in a shrubbery waiting for the ‘window of opportunity’. Once in it immediately hits you how grim this place is... given that the last prison I wandered around (HMP Shrewsbury) was an old Victorian jail with bucket loads of natural light, bright walls and high ceilings, Blundeston despite being comparatively modern built in the 60's is dark, miserable and a depressing warren of corridors and tiny damp cells, some of which had four beds crammed in and sharing a single wing toilet between 12 cells! There is one modern block at the bottom of the site that’s a bit brighter.






Prison Van vehicle bay with roof mounted mirror to check for them naughty buggers hiding on the top of vehicles trying to escape



C-Wing looks to have been used for police fire arms training and dog searches



Looking out from the kitchen across the central exercise area



A four bed cell (I'm sat on the other bunk) with the luxury of a dedicated toilet, most single cells have no toilet and share a single on out on the wing…. Mmmmmm…. smells reeeeeal good.



Prison officer observation box labelled ‘India 2’





The new block at the bottom of the site, looks a bit like Pontins for bad lads but with steel doors and bars on the windows









Main front gate controls and door locks



Single cell on one of the original 1960’s wings, tiny damp and miserable with a metal bed bolted to the floor



A gentle reminder to the pie monsters painted on the wall in the food prep kitchen



G Wing, cages over the windows to prevent stuff being launched at the officers



Dem G wing boyz azgot proper rank cells innit



Visitors room, covered in mirrors



Access to the four stories of C Wing



C wing cells, these have electronically opening cell doors



Front exercise yard



Main entrance prisoner reception with the holding tank opposite



G wing double bunk cell



Not a badly fitted carpet, the prison Mosque with all the rectangles facing Mecca



Solitary confinement. This is the serious stuff, A double walled cell, build inside another cell. A hidden passage runs between the inner and outer cells where officers could access foot ladders built into the wall to climb and get on top of the cell to look in through ceiling mounted spy holes. This is because prisoners would wipe excellent excrement on the wall and door mounted spy holes to stop them being watched.



On top of the inner solitary confinement cell



Inside the solitary confinement cell

 
So glad you got to see it.its a nice place.your shots are lovely as always.when I went we were luckily to get a visit for just eight of us in the evening.rather than the mass tour they were doing in the day.another top report
 
Thank you mate... I saw loads of long exposure shots I wanted to do but I was being stalked by a chap in a high vis who was constantly 5 minutes behind presumably looking me so tripod was a no no lol!
 
Awww that's a shame..we had a free run off the place as they took us specific areas
 
Thank you all :)

Fantastic photos, really interesting to see, lots of difference to Shrewsbury.

Yeah definitely... thats what I thought, really odd that a Victorian prison felt like a much nicer place to be in lol!
 
Bloody hell, what a grim looking place
Excellent photos as always, Shatners
Did you get out ok?

I did thanks mate... as it got a bit later it did cross my mind that if security locked up and went home there would be a very awkward phone call to be made to the police asking them to release me from prison ;)
 
HMP leeds is possibly closing in the next 2 years due to them building a super prison just ouside leeds
 
My Dad reckoned if the Strangeways riot happened a few years later it would have been written off & a new prison built outside Manchester.

The sale of the land would have paid for it.
 
Some of the best shots I've seen for a long time. Composure is spot on. Very comprehensive report too. Solitary confinement looks a bit grim doesn't it!
 

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