September 15, 2005

Abandonded Britain (urban decay)
posted by dng 19 years ago
  • god what a stupid spelling mistake, also
  • Wow. I could get lost in that site for days. Abandoned buildings have always held an immense fascination for me. Incredible pictures.
  • Cool! A real estate site for squatters (~^)
  • )))!
  • I'd like to buy some old medical skeletons and stick them one of those old abandoned asylums or mental hospitals. Maybe imbed a hatchet in the skull or something.
  • What 3DayMonk said displayed.
  • Some of these would make dandy apartments. What's your address? Apt 2, Stockbridge Ward, Park Prewett Mental Hospital.
  • This is really cool. Don't know how comftorable I'd be wandering alone in one of those asylums or other buildings of questionable past (and decay)
  • Splendidly spooky!
  • I wish the site author would have a page with stories where there have been problems on his trips (ie. spooky sounds, or seeing a squatter)
  • Awesome, I've been looking at this for more than an hour.
  • I and some friends explored one of the Orford Ness "pagodas" many years ago. (Razor wire is no barrier to inquisitive teenagers.) It was very disconcerting and post-apocalyptic, and probably the strangest and most mysterious place I have ever been.
  • Amazing link, dng! These are otherworldly, among others.
  • )))!!! Bookmerked this one for further investigation -- the Tottenham baths are very strange, and I want to find a vampire there. Thanks, dng!
  • COOL - I have bookmarked this one for a more through exanination. Preferably accompanied by my spoooky sound fx records and flickering candlelight. [Somehow you have got to worry about a guy who spends too much time around mental hospitals. BTW what ever became of Broadmoor?]
  • I found this photo from the Cane Hill Mental Hospital a little disturbing. Thanks dng, creepy and fascinating.
  • If you like this sort of thing, this MeFi post and all the links from it, will keep you going until xmas.....2010.
  • A long-abandoned banana warehouse to you.
  • Dr_Evil: Broadmoor is still open - it's a high-security mental hospital. Formerly 'Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane'. I stayed near there once - every Monday morning they test their escape sirens.
  • The Danvers State Hospital closed in 1992 and sat creepily abandoned for over a decade. The low-budget horror flick Session 9 was filmed there in 2000. This guy visited the grounds and blogged about it, asking anyone living in the new apartments to invite him over to watch Session 9 in the building. He got his wish.
  • I'm slightly disappointed that the building is no longer empty and abandoned. It wouldn't be remotely as scary to watch the movie in a warm and comfortable apartment.
  • I know. If I was converting an abandoned mental hopital into apartments, I think I'd leave some small area of it all decrepit and spooky, just for atmosphere.