‏إظهار الرسائل ذات التسميات England. إظهار كافة الرسائل
‏إظهار الرسائل ذات التسميات England. إظهار كافة الرسائل

الثلاثاء، 6 يناير 2015

Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum), England


Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum), England


Sitting on top of a hill oversight the East Sussex Countryside sits the battered remnant of Hellingly hospital, Formerly Hellingly Asylum. If the name of this English hospital isn’t enough to persuade you of its creepiness consider the fact that it’s not really a hospital at all. It’s actually an insane asylum; or rather it was an insane asylum before being abandoned several years ago. It was built close to the small village of Hellingly, in South West England.
That East Sussex County Asylum of Hellingly was designed by leading Victorian architect GT Hine and built to a late Victorian design during a period of huge extension for mental health facilities in Britain.it was built with the concept that relaxing views and extreme isolation were beneficial to psychological cure, the asylum's remote location was to provide the patients with a relaxed and isolated setting (ideal for rehabilitation) and to create a world far removed from the officious eyes of daily life outside the hospital walls.
Somehow something went 'wrong' with the design of Hellingly, and Hine produced the plans for a spectacularly decorated theatre, maybe something to do with the hospital being towards the end of his career or maybe he just woke up in a frivolous mood that day. Hellingly's main hall remains the hospital's centerpiece, an adjoining point at which every sprawling corridor can find its way from.
Patients & staff used to live under the same roof in the many red bricks buildings linked by closed hallways, and offering "therapeutic" and relaxing views on the surrounding quiet and green countryside.
The hospital, as with most from the Victorian era, was fully self-sufficient and the hospital's program ensured that patients from all over the site were allocated various jobs in the hospital such as the farming, laundry work or grounds keeping. An onsite railway station with an electric tramway provided the hospital with additional supplies and visitors but was closed in the 1950s due to high upkeep costs.
The capacity of the hospital was originally deemed at 700 patients, although wards were packed with 1,250 by 1955. The overcrowded conditions led to beds in hallways and a general decline in the quality of care, until the Mental Health Act of 1959.
A medium-security unit called Ashen Hill was added in the mid-1980s; however the main hospital campus was slowly closing. It was eventually shuttered in 1994 with the exception of Ashen Hill. A housing complex eventually replaced the abandoned hospital around 2012.
The Hospital today has suffered over 10 years of remissness badly; arson has destroyed several buildings most remarkable the administration block. Vandals have been removing all the windows; the easier to access ground floor areas have received the brunt of these attacks.
Despite the harshness of destruction and chaos systematically inflicted on the buildings by time and man, but a few hidden gems tucked away in remote parts of the site still remain.



Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum), England

Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum), England

Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum), England

Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum), England

Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum), England

Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum), England

Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum), England

Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum), England

Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum), England

Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum), England

Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum), England

Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum), England

الأربعاء، 31 ديسمبر 2014

Maunsell Forts, the United Kingdom




Maunsell Forts, the United Kingdom


During the Second World War, three anti-aircraft forts were built in 1942 as an advance line of defense to protect the important shipping line from enemy ships and aircraft, And to protect the Thames Estuary or as to counter attack enemy planes that were relying on the safety of the Thames estuary and to help defend the United Kingdom in general.
These anti-aircraft tower-forts were constructed with each fort consisting of a cluster of seven stilted buildings surrounding a central command tower. They are Built on land and then transported to their watery homes, the forts were designed by Guy Maunsell, a British civil engineer and named after his name .Each 300 tonne tower was preconstructed before being towed out to sea, sunk into position and then connected to the next tower.
 Army Fort (one of these fortsJ) was badly damaged in a storm and by being struck by a ship, and was dismantled in 1959-60. In the 1960s and 70s, the remaining abandoned forts were famously taken over as pirate radio stations.
These forts are now in varying states of decay, and any attempt to enter them is ill-advised, if not illegal. They can be seen by boat or, on a clear day, from Shoeburyness East Beach.



 Maunsell Forts, the United Kingdom Maunsell Forts, the United Kingdom

 Maunsell Forts, the United Kingdom

 Maunsell Forts, the United Kingdom

 Maunsell Forts, the United Kingdom

 Maunsell Forts, the United Kingdom

 Maunsell Forts, the United Kingdom

Guy Anson Maunsell