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cane hill project
Last update: 17|04|08

Each nurse at the hospital was given this enamel badge featuring the hospital's logo. Scan by Dave Robinson

This is how it used to look. More archival shots here.

Picture: Marlon Bones

A fun sporting time can be enjoyed by all at cane hill's Sports And Social Club. Don't forget your card! Although membership has expired for this card, it doesn't really matter, as the actual Sports And Social Club expired in 2001.
Picture: JonDoe

cane hill keeps its dignity through years of neglect and dereliction.
Picture: Smorgy

And the buildings keep their dignity though mindless vandalism and arson.
Picture: Marlon Bones

An Ode To Cane Hill
"Cane Hill was built many years ago,
For the sad and helpless people that society was frightened to know.
But Cane Hill changed with the generations that followed,
To become a place of love and understanding where you knew you could go,
To get the support if you if you wanted it so.
When we found out Cane Hill was to close,
Many doubts and uncertainties arose.
Don't be sad when Cane Hill is no more,
Just think of its closing as an opening of another door."

A patient on Blake Ward
The Cane Hill Yellow Pages
Probably June 3rd 1991

Aversos Compono Animos
I bring relief to troubled minds

Welcome to the Cane Hill Project, the section of this website devoted to one of the UK’s urban exploration hotspots. Here you’ll find the maps, the plans, the history, the whys-whats-and-whens, hopefully some stories about the hospital from its working days and quite a lot of information about it’s declining days.

So dive in and always remember: Aversos Compono Animos - I bring relief to troubled minds.

This part of the site is still under construction.

Before Starting...: Please take the questionnaire; Completed the questionnaire? Good. Welcome to Cane Hill hospital
Cane Hill Essays: A Brief History Of Cane Hill Hospital; The Design Of Cane Hill; General Condition Today (written in 2002); Fire Damage At Cane Hill; Tales From The Hill; Rumours And Dark Mysteries; The Ups and Downs of Exploring Cane Hill (1960s style)
Cane Hill Listing: The Application
Main Site Map: All the main maps of the site
General Explorations: Walking The Perimeter (29|04|02); Grand Tour (13|07|02); Orientation (18|10|02); Spooks And Structural Failure (08|12|02); Portrait (18|04|03); Syringes On Sunday (17|08|03)
Quick Explorations: Under Vincent by Laurence and Marlon; Cane Hill 2003 by Laura; Admin 2004 by Marlon; Salter And John Hutchinson 2005 by Steve; Cane Hill 2006 by Pete
Maps And Documentation: Plan Of Main Buildings [No Date/1 Sheet]; Plan Of Main Buildings Schematic [No Date/1 Sheet]; Cane Hill Hospital Schematic [Centre pages of the Patient's HandbooK]; Plan Of Main Buildings [C.H. Howell's 1888 plans]; Elevations Blueprint elevations of several key areas; Fire Zone Plans [No date/36 sheets]; Survey Of Fire Equipment On Wards [November 1988/24 Sheets]; Small Detail Of Airing Court [No Date/OS Map]; John Hutchinson Centre Plans The ever unpopular, and unexplored parts of the hospital.; Signs And Directions. Need directions? Here's the various directional signs around the hospital.; Cane Hill Fire Plans; The Cane Hill Yellow Pages; Bits And Bobs Of Paper Found In The Hospital; Guide To Ward Names; Many thanks to: John Maneely for supplying the plans and survey documents; Andrew Tierney for the airing court detail and Howell's 1888 plans; Laura for the Cane Hill Hospital Schematic, fire plans and the magnificient blue prints which were used for the main plans; Steve for the John Hutchinson Centre plans, Marlon Bones for the stationary and Charles Saumarez for the elevations and guide to ward names.
Pictures: Images From The Past Historical pictures of the hospital.
Film: Documentary Footage Is this Cane Hill?
Patients: Famous patients at Cane Hill. This includes the David Bowie connection.
Staff: Staff at Cane Hill. This includes the grave of James Moody.
Songs: Songs From The Hill. Apart from Bowie's vague muses, there are other songwriters contemplating the hospital on the hill.
Film and Video: Pathe News Footage of Cane Hill (showing the frontage and main gates). It's the fifth film down - although all of these short clips are interesting.