Severalls Asylum, Colchester, December '09

[Cuban Bloodhound]

Severalls opened in 1913 as the Second Essex County Asylum. It was built following an Echelon plan and was designed to cater for two thousand patients. Women were cared for in the eastern half of the asylum, while men were in the western side. In 1997 the asylum closed it doors.

Compared with St. Mary's it's a bigger but less complete site with the main hall gone and the mortuary missing its slab etc. It's wards vary from modernised and trashed, to dated and untouched, similar to St. Mary's with no false ceilings or plywood over the doors, and peeling paint. The corridors are about the best left in any of the derelict asylums, varying in size and sprawling over the site, and meeting at double aspect junctions.
Visited with Skin and Dazzababes.

[skin]

Jealous you found those revealed Hines tiles - nice shots and loads I missed. Well after 1138 miles, 25 hours of driving and two luxury nights of accomodation with a drunk driving check thrown in to boot Severalls was a delight to explore.
Some of my pics

Admin

squirrels

one of the murals

tower

operating theatre

double corridor

cells

cell

hall this way...

remains of hall

hines tiles

kitchen

courtyard entrance

[Cuban Bloodhound]

great pics i cant wait till i get to visit it

Mate remember what Skin said, he felt the prescence in there. Don't take it too lightly, you never know what's round the next corner. I was at an asylum today and guess what I saw...

[Dazzababes]

Spent the night in there and wont be going back Im afraid - too many scary noises - footsteps and the like - and wailing noises too. Felt lots of presences there too as if being followed and watched all the time.

I must be a really deep sleeper 'cause I didn't hear anything untoward

Anyway, hope you don't mind if I add a few of the massive TWENTY pics I took that day. The ghosties drained all the power from my batteries during the night