Exploring an Abandoned Hospital's Mental Health Department 

Thank you for sharing guys. These old brick-built hospitals are so interesting, the equipment and furniture all tell a story. The chairs in a circle by the way could have been from some group therapy session. The electric typewriter would date from the 1980's or late seventies, similar to one my mother used as a typist at the time. Your respect for empty buildings is admirable, nothing is touched unnecessarily, and no trivial commentary or banter.

The phone book on the desk at 9:11 indicates it was still being used in 1991 if not later. thats the red & blue BT piper logo introduced in 1991

The Data protection act should cover all sort of protection Thank you for taking us on your journeys to these abandoned buildings and giving us insight into what happens when a property is neglected

This is incredible. I’m an empath, and I sense things. I’m not psychic, it’s just “feelings” I get in my solar plexus. Watching this made me feel very uneasy. Not in the sense that I feel you shouldn’t be doing this; in the sense that I get a bad feeling from the building. I think it has a long and complex history. The fact that it’s a former mental health hospital could explain a lot. Given the horrendous treatment we know some people received for their mental health services at that period of time in history. I find your channel absolutely fascinating! So beautifully filmed, edited and put together. Really respectful with it too. Really super cool. You’ve got a sub for life here 👍🏻

I work in a hospital that around 10 years ago demolished an old Victorian block to make way for a"ultra modern" building...why oh why did they do that? I worked in the operating theatres at the time and they don't have Porters so you had to go collect the patients who were being operated on that day yourselves. I remember one of the lifts being the old service lifts with two doors you had to pull shut, they wouldn't work unless they were completely shut and you got a static shock of them sometimes. The outside of the building had a walkway that looked like a veranda that I expect was used to let fresh air in and I think patients probably sat on it years ago if the weather was good. They wouldn't do that these days infection control would have a field day. The brick work looked black to me, I was never sure if it was black brick or dirt through the ages.. One of the buildings had terracotta ornate brickwork that was salvaged and put in a new garden in the grounds, that was a nice touch. i remember a staircase with a wooden curved handrail that is long gone now, such workmanship went in to that. I still work in the operating theatres but I do an office job but I still think about the old site, so in answer to your question I would have the old style hospital's any day of the week.. I look at the new build and know that when it was built they had all the safety precautions in place, years and years ago buildings took years to build there was no health and safety executive to protect them, men died doing that job but the architecture has you in awe.

I worked as Psychiatric Nurse in 1971, at Oldham Boundry Park, and Oldham Westhulme Hospitals, They were beautiful old Victorian Hospitals that are now Demolished. Beautiful and Gone.

I would love to see both. Since I live in Canada, i don’t ever get to see the buildings in England. I love seeing anything

I prefer older buildings, mostly because they are generally more beautiful. Not just for hospitals, but also for homes and factories. It's incredible how beautiful some old factory buildings can be.

Older buildings are always more interesting - not least because they tell a story of by-gone conditions and treatments. I'm chuckling at your descriptions of what's "really old" though, as most of that would have been in use throughout the 1980s and possibly the first half of the nineties! Sure, it's already more than 25 years ago; but that's it all modernised!! I remember hospitals like that in everyday use, with Bakelite telephones, light switches and all. Those trolleys in the final scenes would have been used to distribute something around the wards - probably sheets and towels considering where they are. It's a bit shocking to see so many medical records left behind mind you, as many of the people concerned will still be alive... anyone would think they had something to hide - which they might very well if my experiences are anything to go by!

Well done! Great video, thanks for giving us a unique insight into places that we would never normally would be able to see!

Great Video!

Great Video Guys Thanks and Best Wishes

Wow the paint is wrecked in that place! Didn't expect to see so much craft & workshop stuff to be left in there. Have seen those tool outlines before (Proper People video) maybe so you could check they had all been returned? Wouldn't want people wandering about with claw hammers... Also the wire over the stairs and 'fresh air' balconies. Definitely uneasy atmosphere about the place. Great camera work and well judged commentary - well worth the wait. Cheers guys!

I know the market square in Northampton was cobbled for hundreds of years but has now being resurfaced with stone slabs.

Always good quality, great video

This is a really cool video. Surprising the amount of personal belongings, equipment and medical records left behind. Great to see this. If this is of interest, do a search for Whittingham Hall - a huge former asylum that's North of Preston in Lancashire. There are a few videos on RU-vid taken in that place and also old documentaries showing what life was like for people/ inmates.

I feel these places would have been quite sad. It’s possible that the patients rarely if ever saw their family again.

Great explore, there are some lovely architectural details still there. I watch and like many different urbexers and I love all the places they explore. However, older structures generally have a broader and more interesting history which adds a lot. Well done guys. All the best from Buenos Aires. 👍🏻👍🏻

Another beautiful video guys! I loved the doorframe, it was almost designed to be outside rather than inside. The chairs were more than likely placed that way by previous explorers. Keep it up guys🤓

Really awesome explore. All the left behind stuff was interesting. Love the decay. Thanks for the upload 😃👍

I live on the new development on the grounds of hellingly hospital , parts of the hospital are still in use today , it is extremely haunted , the relatively new secure unit holds patients similar to those in broadmoor . Tunnels are long since filled in but the new builds have been built and positioned similar to where some original buildings once stood . They used original bricks etc on some houses , leaving negative residual energy within new properties

You’ve got a natural skill for what you do mate fantastic editing and documentary skills keep up the great work 💪

Personally, I prefer the older buildings, as they have more character. The peeling paint in this particular building is really beautiful.

Older buildings Good Video x

For me it's what else is in the building that often adds intrigue. I'd naturally say an older building, but if you explored a new building with lots of furniture etc to look at that could be more interesting than a completely empty old one.

The circle of chairs was probably for group therapy.

Lots of older buildings have modernised interiors so it's interesting to see the drop ceilings and false walls falling away when abandoned, revealing older features. People must appreciate the style of these older buildings as so many of them seem to get repurposed as accommodation (see Urbandoned vids on Haslar, Clitheroe and maybe one day St Thomas'). The modern concrete block style of public building ( not hospitals but check vids on Borough Police Station & Wakefield Police Training Academy) get flattened for new housing. So modern is great to watch in a scrapped, trashed state but seeing older abandonments reminds people of design which should be preserved.

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Older buildings with original features. It's sad to see classic styles being totally erased by modern Architecture

the old time buildings are most interesting, with some lovely designed features , bet all the locks and handles ect was brass.

Nice video 👌

Pity the data protection act doesnt apply to paper records would love to see the NHS get hit with a whopping fine for all the records its left abandoned and open

I think this would be a perfect restoration project for a really big block of flats Housing crisis sorted

This hospital crazy!! Where this from? The mental hospital we went was crappy lmao

I much prefer the older hospitals as they remind me of the ones I worked in during the 90’s. They definitely weren’t referred to as inmates! more often clients or service users. The workshop area may have been Occupational Therapy, where service users gained and developed skills for the community or employment.

I suppose, when it comes to hospitals there tends to be something of a cut-off, since certain features are a necessity in healthcare. I don’t imagine we would ever see a hospital building older than maybe two hundred years that hasn’t been heavily modernised and renovated. I’m a huge fan of old architecture. I love Victorian buildings and anything older, but it makes me really sad to see them falling apart. All that history just being left alone to slowly disintegrate. I’m lucky enough to work in a building that’s nearly 200 years old and happens to be beautifully ornate and fancy. I can’t help but smile when I look at my work, but to think of it sitting unused breaks my heart. There were also approximately four old-style abandoned hospitals in the area I grew up in. I loved walking around the outside of them to take pictures, even if I was too scared to go in. Apart from one, they have all now either been torn down completely or refurbished into expensive housing. I’m glad they’re not sitting unused, but I do miss the real aura of mystery and history they had. I’m not a huge fan of newer-style abandoned buildings. They are nice to see and they make me just as thoughtful and sad as their older counterparts, but the adult in my gets annoyed about the wastefulness. If a building is less than maybe 50 years old, I instinctively get annoyed if it’s being left to rot. Unless there’s a health risk like Asbestos it feels like a building that new could be repurposed and given new life. But maybe that’s why I’m not in charge of the U.K. economy.

There's orbs floating around 😯

That part of the hospital has certainly been abandoned for some time not sure about its right for medical records just to left like you found them

older buildings any day of the week they have a lot more style thn th box design of new buildings also i think older buildings ware built a lot better and work man took pride in there work a lot more then today

Where was this?

Imagine the asbestos in there

If you look at modern architecture it's become a lot more simpler and no one really worries about how things look in such detail. In older buildings 18th 19th century everything has to look good. every bracket, every Gerda, every light fitting had time spent on it to make it look good. Today everything is done for cost and not for how it looks. Its opposite to when you first learn to draw, at first you draw stick men that's a very simple with very little detail. (Modern day architecture) As you get better, the detail gets better until you are painting a roof of a Cathedral. 😂. This it's like 18th and 19th century. I know why things are done this way but I do prefer older architecture. I really don't like is older architecture being knocked down for Modern buildings.

Old design hospitals look better