St Andrew’s Hospital was a mental health facility in Thorpe St Andrew in Norwich. It was said to be the oldest mental hospital in Britain. Originally opening as the Norfolk County Asylum in May 1814, wings to the ward blocks were added in 1849 and a large auxiliary building for chronic patients was completed in 1881. The hospital was requisitioned for military use as the Norfolk War Hospital during WW1 and was then renamed the Norfolk County Mental Hospital in 1919. The hospital joined the National Health Service as St Andrew’s Hospital in 1948. After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in April 1998. After closure the original site to the south was turned into housing. The remaining annexe site was placed up for sale and continued to be partially used as offices until 2013 before it was sold and partially demolished. Today only the central section of the auxiliary building remains. The water tower along with the mortuary behind to the north also survive. Since its abandonment this site has become a hotspot for urban explorers with many reporting an oppressive and unwelcoming feeling inside the old annexe building. Some claim to have experienced poltergeist type activity with stones and debris being thrown by unseen forces along with inexplicably loud bangs in a seemingly empty building. Previous employees speak of strange phenomena being commonplace with shadow figures witnessed along with the unexplainable movement of objects. One spirit still said to reside here is a faceless grey lady spirit believed to be a nurse who was badly burnt in WW2. A long forgotten burial ground hidden away on the former hospital site is thought to contain the bodies of over 1,000 unmarked graves. Shallow indents in the ground are the only marker for the souls buried here.
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