Thread: Hellingly Hospital, East Sussex

I had to go to Brighton yesterday and well, "when in Rome", right? First explore in ages too 'cause I've been busy with other projects.

This place is unbelievably ruined, highly entertaining though - cool graffiti, funky floors and weird orthopedic type chairs EVERYWHERE. It's got quite a nice atmosphere to it, perfect for a future picnic I think!

East Sussex decided to provide a new asylum after a brief period of as principal owners of the Haywards heath asylum. The construction of the new building allowed the county to leave the frequently-overcrowded old asylum to the Brighton authority and take up more extensive facilities at Hellingly.

Designed by prominent asylum architect, George Thomas Hine, Hellingly was to be one of the most advanced county asylum designs at the time of its construction and can be seen as a smaller scale enhancement of ideas employed at the London County Council's Bexley Asylum. The site, forming part of Park Farm was located to the north-east of Hailsham a short distance from Hellingly village and railway station. The site sloped south and the northern area was bounded by woodland. A minor road was re-routed to maintain the security and privacy of the site.

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Opened in 1903 - Closed in 1994


"Amid concrete and clay and general decay, nature must still find a way"


Hello


"You'll always be satisfied with Sandra..."




Much love to the lens flare










It's not a bath, it's a time machine


My friend Jordan playing with contraptions


You wouldn't believe how many pigeons I had to beat up for this photo


Sadly didn't find the body fridge, not too bothered though as I found workshops, boilers and BIG washing machines



(No pigeons were harmed during the making of this explore, though I was ****ing tempted - the noisy b*stards)

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FM mate...AWESOME! Its just gotta be done! Let me have the name of that other place you mentioned in the mobicon this morning and I'll dig out the tents!

Lets get in that time machine!

Love it...some real pearlers there (the graffiti is amazing...they can come and paint the walls of my house!) and its nice to see you back.

great stuff whats an actifresh plastic pillow?

Cheers guys

One more for Paul..

No, I meant to go back and snap the lot but I got distracted. They're all on a mate's DA page though link - click download and you get them full size