A unique part of the tour, since I’m now walking around the old nurses’ accommodation and there’s
no razor topped fence between me and the hospital. Hurrah! Instead, every bottom floor window is
barred, fenced or bricked up. Alas, that illusive interior shot is still denied!
These woods must have been full of perverts and peeping toms in the first half of the century, all
attempting to peer into these windows. I guess they all moved to the separate, new nurses’ block in the
1960s, when the nurses did.
Now the woods are full of vandals chucking stones through the windows. This is one of the most damaged
parts of the hospital in terms of vandalism. Shame!
2009: Cane Hill had several urban exploration Achilles Heels and the former
Nurses’ Block was one of them. The imposing perimeter fence didn’t enclose the building, and the powers-that-be
presumed the sturdy wooden board over the ground floor windows would prevent access.
They were wrong. For a short time, those in the know had a handy, undetected way into the interior of the buildings
which bypassed the perimeter fence entirely. It was most civilised.
