Kings Hall Southall
A Tour Bus destination but what a place.
Visited with my usual partner in grime Brickworx the day started at silly o'clock for a good reason this is a seriously busy location with 24 hr buses stoping right outside regularly. Parking for free in a side road even at 4am was difficult but we found a space and we started towards the front of this great building.
Kings Hall was built in 1916 for the Uxbridge & Southall Wesleyan Mission which operated it as a cinema screening religious films right up till 1937, when presumably the peoples appetite for the usual biblical gore fest movies had dwindled as did its economical viability. After 1937 the building served as a Methodist church serving the largely Urdu speaking congregation and then later the West African, Pakistani and British congregations. Ultimately a building of this scale supported solely by parishioners would become unsustainable and despite a protracted campaign closed in 2014.
An interesting but not unsurprising document on the closure can be found herehttps://oimts.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/2013-6-smith.pdf
On with the explore. Up over the fence we went. I slipped a bit ripped my trousers cutting my leg a bit on the metal rods on the top (or so I thought)but not enough to dampen the mood.![Uncomfortableness :uncomfortableness: :uncomfortableness:](/main/images/smilies/uncomfortableness.png)
![Uncomfortableness :uncomfortableness: :uncomfortableness:](/main/images/smilies/uncomfortableness.png)
![Uncomfortableness :uncomfortableness: :uncomfortableness:](/main/images/smilies/uncomfortableness.png)
It was still dark when we got in so up to a room overlooking the high street to wait till daylight where we met 3 others Lavino and two of his mates who were quite surprised to see us. About an hour later with the help of the streetlights we started the explore.
Round corridors and the green tiles rock.
Round the bend. by stu8fish, on Flickr
Wiff-waff and other healthy pastimes.
Wiff-Waff. by stu8fish, on Flickr
Fight foot and mouth with faith. You gotta love the delusional!
Fight foot and mouth with faith says bishop. by stu8fish, on Flickr
The Rotunda.
Rotunda. by stu8fish, on Flickr
Part of the seating for 300
Be seated. by stu8fish, on Flickr
The Gods.
The Gods. by stu8fish, on Flickr
The obligatory urbex piano shot.
All the right notes. by stu8fish, on Flickr
The view from above.
Top view. by stu8fish, on Flickr
Looking at the view.
Clown. by stu8fish, on Flickr
Paperwork.
Scored. by stu8fish, on Flickr
Peelings
Peelings. by stu8fish, on Flickr
Raze. by stu8fish, on Flickr
Corridoor
Step up. by stu8fish, on Flickr
The Office
The office. by stu8fish, on Flickr
All the right notes
Keys by stu8fish, on Flickr
The round window.
The round window. by stu8fish, on Flickr
Now the time has come to leave.
No by stu8fish, on Flickr
The headline banner.
Bannertwo by stu8fish, on Flickr
The exit was as comical as the entry with at least 20 people watching us drop from height into the bus stop que. Southall is a seriously busy place and this was my attempt at the required urbex external shot.
Explore bus project. by stu8fish, on Flickr
And the final shot is slightly gruesome but necessary.
My little slip on the fence was a little more serious than I first thought. Early in the day I suffered some discomfort and although its not recommended with people you met on the internet I had too drop my trousers and ask Brickworx to look at the scratch to check if it needed stitches. His response was "its just a scratch let's get on exploring!"
2017-12-04_08-07-18 by stu8fish, on Flickr
Two days later I thought the scratch should have stopped hurting so I visited the minor injuries clinic of my local hospital. Six nights in the hospital and 2 sessions under the knife leads me to think it was more than a scratch.
Owwee Owee Owee. by stu8fish, on Flickr
You gotta have a little adventure in life.
Big thanks to the Dr's and Nurses of the Royal Surrey for their work and good humour in sorting my leg out and hope they get the funding and pay that is needed to make the NHS the best in to world.
A Tour Bus destination but what a place.
Visited with my usual partner in grime Brickworx the day started at silly o'clock for a good reason this is a seriously busy location with 24 hr buses stoping right outside regularly. Parking for free in a side road even at 4am was difficult but we found a space and we started towards the front of this great building.
Kings Hall was built in 1916 for the Uxbridge & Southall Wesleyan Mission which operated it as a cinema screening religious films right up till 1937, when presumably the peoples appetite for the usual biblical gore fest movies had dwindled as did its economical viability. After 1937 the building served as a Methodist church serving the largely Urdu speaking congregation and then later the West African, Pakistani and British congregations. Ultimately a building of this scale supported solely by parishioners would become unsustainable and despite a protracted campaign closed in 2014.
An interesting but not unsurprising document on the closure can be found herehttps://oimts.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/2013-6-smith.pdf
On with the explore. Up over the fence we went. I slipped a bit ripped my trousers cutting my leg a bit on the metal rods on the top (or so I thought)but not enough to dampen the mood.
![Uncomfortableness :uncomfortableness: :uncomfortableness:](/main/images/smilies/uncomfortableness.png)
![Uncomfortableness :uncomfortableness: :uncomfortableness:](/main/images/smilies/uncomfortableness.png)
![Uncomfortableness :uncomfortableness: :uncomfortableness:](/main/images/smilies/uncomfortableness.png)
It was still dark when we got in so up to a room overlooking the high street to wait till daylight where we met 3 others Lavino and two of his mates who were quite surprised to see us. About an hour later with the help of the streetlights we started the explore.
Round corridors and the green tiles rock.
![26648431809_7cc22b0f5e_b.jpg 26648431809_7cc22b0f5e_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233746-26648431809-7cc22b0f5e-b.jpg)
Wiff-waff and other healthy pastimes.
![37584301745_92cee910e8_b.jpg 37584301745_92cee910e8_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233747-37584301745-92cee910e8-b.jpg)
Fight foot and mouth with faith. You gotta love the delusional!
![38444638546_e43aefa862_b.jpg 38444638546_e43aefa862_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233748-38444638546-e43aefa862-b.jpg)
The Rotunda.
![37756754924_28073be1c0_b.jpg 37756754924_28073be1c0_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233749-37756754924-28073be1c0-b.jpg)
Part of the seating for 300
![37685350144_ea8a9879e1_b.jpg 37685350144_ea8a9879e1_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233750-37685350144-ea8a9879e1-b.jpg)
The Gods.
![38393322502_fed7aeea4c_b.jpg 38393322502_fed7aeea4c_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233751-38393322502-fed7aeea4c-b.jpg)
The obligatory urbex piano shot.
![37499573344_8b1b50962e_b.jpg 37499573344_8b1b50962e_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233752-37499573344-8b1b50962e-b.jpg)
The view from above.
![37516086544_8eac0fb109_b.jpg 37516086544_8eac0fb109_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233753-37516086544-8eac0fb109-b.jpg)
Looking at the view.
![38433175844_e88bd5af08_b.jpg 38433175844_e88bd5af08_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233754-38433175844-e88bd5af08-b.jpg)
Paperwork.
![26997095759_80154c6dbf_b.jpg 26997095759_80154c6dbf_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233755-26997095759-80154c6dbf-b.jpg)
Peelings
![26997101909_3e03ba0939_b.jpg 26997101909_3e03ba0939_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233756-26997101909-3e03ba0939-b.jpg)
![38443403826_bd73cc8552_b.jpg 38443403826_bd73cc8552_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233757-38443403826-bd73cc8552-b.jpg)
Corridoor
![26648423799_94f59be164_b.jpg 26648423799_94f59be164_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233758-26648423799-94f59be164-b.jpg)
The Office
![37612364675_04ae12d80c_b.jpg 37612364675_04ae12d80c_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233759-37612364675-04ae12d80c-b.jpg)
All the right notes
![38344368626_b72ac97394_b.jpg 38344368626_b72ac97394_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233760-38344368626-b72ac97394-b.jpg)
The round window.
![38197288281_46b7f3e61a_b.jpg 38197288281_46b7f3e61a_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233761-38197288281-46b7f3e61a-b.jpg)
Now the time has come to leave.
![37685366104_7823e2f9e5_b.jpg 37685366104_7823e2f9e5_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233762-37685366104-7823e2f9e5-b.jpg)
The headline banner.
![38524877651_8bf592dd76_b.jpg 38524877651_8bf592dd76_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233763-38524877651-8bf592dd76-b.jpg)
The exit was as comical as the entry with at least 20 people watching us drop from height into the bus stop que. Southall is a seriously busy place and this was my attempt at the required urbex external shot.
![27166085729_864097d068_b.jpg 27166085729_864097d068_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233764-27166085729-864097d068-b.jpg)
And the final shot is slightly gruesome but necessary.
My little slip on the fence was a little more serious than I first thought. Early in the day I suffered some discomfort and although its not recommended with people you met on the internet I had too drop my trousers and ask Brickworx to look at the scratch to check if it needed stitches. His response was "its just a scratch let's get on exploring!"
![27060851789_e92412c7a4_b.jpg 27060851789_e92412c7a4_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233765-27060851789-e92412c7a4-b.jpg)
Two days later I thought the scratch should have stopped hurting so I visited the minor injuries clinic of my local hospital. Six nights in the hospital and 2 sessions under the knife leads me to think it was more than a scratch.
![24876364228_56d91c494e_b.jpg 24876364228_56d91c494e_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/233/233766-24876364228-56d91c494e-b.jpg)
You gotta have a little adventure in life.
Big thanks to the Dr's and Nurses of the Royal Surrey for their work and good humour in sorting my leg out and hope they get the funding and pay that is needed to make the NHS the best in to world.