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St. Crispin Lunatic Asylum 02|01|04 (With Smorgy) Demolished/Redeveloped in 2006
This recce went badly wrong. Not for any of the usual urban exploration reasons, but simply for one very good reason: We attempted to do it
properly and gain access by gaining official permission.
Still, at least some of St. Crispin got photographed that day.
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Rauceby Lunatic Asylum 18|01|04 (With Smorgy) Demolished/Redeveloped in 2006
This was the start of the Virtual Asylum - a project to fully document an asylum by photographing every part of it.
In the end, this shoot was important as I got most of the externals, and Smorgy filmed lots of footage. Additionally we tried putting together
some documentary style footage which acted as a rehearsal for when I returned to the asylum in May to film for the BBC.
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Aquila 02|03|04 (With Marlon, JonDoe and Dr. Bob) Demolished in 2004
Aquila was massive. A huge sprawling site filled with the most wonderous juxtapositions: military testing equipment nudging next
to a huge bar; engineers' workshops and toolsheds nestling up against a fully working cinema.
It was massive. It's gone now.
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Rauceby Lunatic Asylum 03|04|04 (With Smorgy and Magnus) Demolished/Redeveloped in 2006
It was a case of two things coming together. Magnus wanted to come along and write about the urbex experience for a Swedish
national paper. My spies at Rauceby told me that the bulldozers were moving in and the newts were moving out.
It was time to get back to Lincolnshire.
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Beedingwood 02|05|04 (With Smorgy, Marlon and JonDoe)
Normally I wouldn’t even bother exploring a house. After all I live in one. And they’re not really all that
exciting. But Beedingwood, the first house to be featured on this site, was different; asymmetrical architecture, huge footprint and completely unstable.
The first site where I actually thought a hard-hat would be a good idea.
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Rauceby Lunatic Asylum 10|05|04 (With Deano) Demolished/Redeveloped in 2006
I was now filming for real at the asylum, shooting documentary footage for Restoration Nation. And will full
access to the internals of the asylum, I managed to take over 400 shots.
As a momento of that day, I put together a tour from the hundreds of pictures. How To Climb A Victorian Water Tower
details almost every step of climbing the landmark feature of the asylum.
No pressure. No pressure at all.
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Hellingly Lunatic Asylum 12|09|04 (With Laurence and Marlon)
I'd been telling people about Hellingly for a while, but its been strangely ignored. Odd how the popularity of
sites changes over time, and places become popular and others fall from favour.
Websites devoted to this huge GT Hine asylum started appearing last year, and now it's been added to the urban exploration
circuit.
So, it was about time, I went and had a look.
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White Hart & Cole's Mill 12|09|04 (With Laurence, Marlon and Smorgy)
This was simply some madness after Hellingly as we searched Sussex for a drink. Derelict
pubs, mills and garages were plentiful.
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St. Margaret's Hospital 28|10|04 (With Sam) Demolished in 2007
This place was on our lists for a while - a huge, derelict rural expanse near Birmingham, complete with derelict hospital. Unfortunately
we knew security were lurking around as well.
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Great Barr Hall 28|10|04 (With Sam)
And on the very same site can be found the impressive remains of Great Barr Hall, a house with an impressive history,
equality impressive house guests, and a less than impressive roof.
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St. Crispin Lunatic Asylum 06|14|04 Demolished/Redeveloped in 2006
Finally... after checking out the site in January, I returned and wondered its battered interiors.
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