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A historical view of the Cuckmere River in Hellingly, Sussex, England, UK. Goodbye Hellingly Hospital, where both good and bad happened. Hellingly Hospital was to be one of the most advanced Asylum designs of its time and was designed by the prominent architect George Thomas Hine, Consultant Architect to the Lunacy Commissioners. The hospital opened on July 20th, 1903 at a total cost of £353,400. The Chapel and Homestead building still remain standing. asbestos. It is built close to the small village of Hellingly, in South West England. Hellingly Asylum opened its doors in 1903 and then closed them permanently in 1994. The lines show the position of the rails. Some explorers have reported hearing unexplained noises up and down the many corridors. Of course, this was back in a time when people were locked away in isolation, people with mental illness or an illness in which the family did not want to deal. In the theater, facing the stage, near the front right door, there was a hatch where some urban explorers were brave enough to crawl around the creepy underground passageways. The County Authority of East Sussex decided to build a new lunatic asylum at the turn of the twentieth century after problems of overcrowding at the Haywards Heath Asylum, formerly the Sussex County Asylum. Foredown Hospital (Hove Sanatorium).This purpose-built isolation hospital of the 1880s, with later additions dating up to the early 1920s, was demolished in the 1970s or 1980s, leaving only the water tower standing. Here’s an ode to abandoned Hellingly Mental Asylum with 33 photos. Hellingly Hospital; Opened: 1903: Closed: 1994: Demolished: 2009: Current Status: Demolished: Building Style: Echelon Plan: Architect(s) G.T. HOVE. When you look at these photos, do you think death and derelict nightmare or do you think urban explorers’ dream? May 31, 2013 - Hellingly Hospital, formerly the East Sussex County Asylum, Hellingly, UK- Partially Demolished Arson left its smoky and charred touch to the kitchen and central stores, the administration block, medical officer’s residences and much more. Other “advanced” facility care therapeutics included shock treatments. . This psychiatric hospital opened its doors in 1903 in order to accommodate the overcrowding at the Sussex County Asylum. Maybe these adventurers are just insane, or maybe they wanted to sift through the eerie and unspeakable beauty of the Victorian hospital complex. The line closed to passenger traffic in 1930 and the track was lifted in 1959 at which time the hospital boilers were converted from coal to oil fuel. WATER TOWER DEMOLITION, HELLINGLY HOSPITAL. The hospital even had its own private railway called the Hellingly Hospital Railway, as well as an electric tramway, which at the time was a rare and innovative feature of such facilities. Just the same, that might not be overly comforting when having to bath in one of the many bathtubs along with many others in the “public” restrooms. . The estate plan incorporated two driveways: one from the south-west lined with medical officers' residences and the acute hospital and another second from the south routed via the farm, male farm-workers' villa and married attendants' cottages. Even as “advanced” as it was thought to be, Hellingly was also a place where women who had children out of wedlock were incarcerated. The buildings were derelict for some time until being demolished and replaced with a housing estate, named by the developer as Roebuck Park. Like most large institutions of this age and type the sexes were separated into separate accommodation and work areas. There were big windows to let in as much light as possible. It’s being demolished. For more information on water tower demolition please contact info@independentexplosives.com Sitting on top of a hill overlooking the East Sussex Countryside sat the battered remains of Hellingly hospital, Formerly Hellingly Asylum. One place he explored was Hellingly Hospital in East Sussex, prior to its 2011 demolition. Yet there is something infinitely sad about this decrepit hospital being demolished by wrecking crews for new construction. Click here for pictures of the remaining features of the Hellingly Hospital Railway in 2005. For over 20 years, abandoned Hellingly has been dying, fading, and peeling, but there is a lovely quality that makes you shudder about the ruination. The hospital had its own electric tramway, the Hellingly Hospital Railway. December 7th, 2008 Group Since. Abandonment and demolition. Explorers dared security guards and guard dogs to investigate and to photograph the decaying, otherwise forgotten, and rotten bedlam of massive Hellingly Asylum. Convalescent Police Seaside Home TQ 280 050 101493. There are renovations being made to the Homestead building as of 2017. https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Hellingly_Hospital&oldid=37193. Hellingly Hospital was designed by asylum architect George Thomas Hine and was one of the most advanced asylum designs ever constructed. The hospital had its own electric tramway, the Hellingly Hospital Railway. Oct 21, 2014 - Jeremy Gibbs aka RomanyWG is an urban explorer who takes stunning photographs of his wanderings. In its prime, Hellingly Asylum was a beautiful example of Victorian architecture. It was also the refuge for patients who had to flee West Sussex due to the First World War. Most of the psychiatric hospital is to be replaced by new housing. 3. Pevensey Castle dates all the way back to Roman occupation. On the reorganization of the NHS in 1974 it was placed in the Eastbourne Health District and closed in Jan. 1994. Good luck with that to those of you who think you will live peacefully on a land soaked with trauma. Opacity is dedicated to documenting various abandoned places through both text and photographs; recording their transformations through time before they are demolished. If the walls could talk within Hellingly, could you imagine the tales you might hear? To this end the County Council purchased the 400 acre Park Farm estate, a short distance from Hellingly village and railway station, from the earl of Chichester for £16,000. The huge complex will soon be nothing more than written stories and urban explorers’ documented photographs. The hospital authorities obviously thought that the coal merchants would try and sell them short as they had a weighbridge installed. Mar 30, 2018 - Hellingly Hospital, formerly the East Sussex County Asylum, Hellingly, UK- Partially Demolished Taken from a postcard c. 1919. I have also been chatting to a couple of the guards. Hellingly Hospital, Hellingly, United Kingdom. Jun 28, 2013 - Think death and derelict nightmare or think urban explorers’ dream. Some folks call it vandalism and others call it art, but many graffiti artists have left their mark up and down the hallways, rooms, stairways, and spooky corners of abandoned Hellingly Asylum. One place he explored was Hellingly Hospital in East Sussex, prior to its 2011 demolition. The asylum was designed by George […] Hellingly Hospital + Join Group. . The decadent ballroom is only a tiny fraction of an asylum tagged, explored, smashed, trashed and a target of numerous arson attacks. Thread starter lukewoodford; Start date Jul 28, 2009; L. lukewoodford FYI, I am Luke Woodford.....by Luke Woodford. History. Here, on 20 July 1903, the Hellingly Mental Hospital was inaugurated: an asylum, the best in the area because, apparently, the most innovative treatments were experimented there. 6.4K likes. The old Hellingly Hospital near Hailsham, East Sussex being demolished. The paint had peeled, the ceiling had crumbled in places, and the glass had been smashed out of windows, exposing the once grand Victorian architecture to be a victim of the elements. Would you have gone down those spooky stairs, ready to bark at the moon and take on anything? Signs of vandalism were almost everywhere. A day room typical of the hospital, with large bay windows to let as much sunlight in as possible . Article by Angie, filed under Construction began in 1898 and the new asylum was built to a compact arrow plan by George Thomas Hine, consultant architect to the Commissioners in Lunacy. After closure, most of the buildings fell into rapid decline, suffering from arson, vandalism and theft. There is substantial fire damage to the above Hellingly Hospital corridor. The Lost Asylum The East Essex County Mental Asylum opened its doors in 1903. Of course, old buildings make noises. Artist Exposé – Abandoned Places In UK By Edge of Humanity Magazine, April 10, 2016 Hellingly hospital (demolished) Photographer Dave Wares is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of these images. Hellingly Asylum opened its doors in 1903 and then closed them permanently in 1994. . Besides having a farm, train, water tower, clothing store, boiler room, chapel, dentist office and so many others, there was also a Hellingly Hair Salon. All of the buildings in the main complex were linked by an extensive network of corridors. Later developments and decline, Post-war developments included the conversion of the Superintendent's residence to a nurse's home, the closure of the hospital farm, the construction of Tennyson house and the staff social club. The top two photographs showcase works by Snub. Some former patients, some children during their stay at Hellingly, report recalling a distinctive smell and plenty of scary memories from this place. Perhaps the asylum ghosts were acting at night as gardeners? There is something utterly creepy about seeing a child’s wheelchair in the decaying mental hospital. Hellingly Hospital – A Vast Abandoned Hospital Complex Where Urban Explorers Find Happiness July 8, 2017 Nikola Petrovski Close to the village of Hellingly, East of Hailsham in the county of Sussex, England, once stood Hellingly Hospital mental asylum. Hellingly Hospital was to be one of the most advanced Asylum designs of its time and was designed by the prominent architect George Thomas Hine, Consultant Architect to the Lunacy Commissioners. The line led from the Hellingly Station to the boilerhouse and was used principally for transporting coal for the heating boilers and electricity plant. The “Yellow Chair” in the bottom picture is in about the same state as abandoned Hellingly Asylum. To the north of the main buildings were a chapel and four further villas including one for male working patients, two for female working patients and another for mentally defective children. Walkers, foam, mattresses, and clothing are scattered over the moss. The rest of the black and white portions in this picture are a product of merging Hellingly Asylum in its glory with its decrepit and tagged state now. In mid-2010, work began to clear the site for new housing. . The hospital's main hall. A kind visitor to a show brought me a couple of bits of brickwork from the pile and these now travel with the model. Another medium secure unit is on the site known as Southview which was opened in 2000. Good luck with that to those of you who think you will live peacefully on a land soaked with trauma. 1943 Austin truck on display at the Hellingly Festival of Transport show. Graffiti artists can have a great sense humor, placing the semi-undressed woman carefully above the bathtub. The hallway above is one that was in “better” condition than many others. Hellingly Hospital- Being Demolished. Men and women lived in separate wings. Hellingly Asylum even had an electrified railway, so let’s go off the rails on a crazy train to explore the decomposing mental hospital since it is at this moment being torn down. If this urban explorer’s paradise was not being destroyed, eventually nature would have swallowed the abandoned asylum whole. Aug 8, 2018 - Think death and derelict nightmare or think urban explorers’ dream. According to county asylum records, Hellingly Asylum had a special building just for “mentally defective” children. I have also been chatting to a couple of the guards. Hellingly Hospital (East Sussex Asylum) TQ 598 125 101584. Planning for the building began in 1898 and GT Hine designed the hospital in his trade mark compact arrow form, with the male wards to the west of the site. Actually it is a trick of the trees outside and the moonlight . Add that with all that transpired at this asylum and it might send a shiver up your spine. R.I.P. Despite these developments, patient numbers were already declining and the entire main building was vacated and closed in 1994. 1546 Photos. Hine designed the Victorian hospital on a very large scale, spreading the many buildings on a huge campus. This room has been heavily vandalized and photographed about as much too. Would the building scream in terror at what has happened within those walls? Art Exhibitionism: Neighbors Threaten Lawsuit Over Museum Voyeurs, Secret Scenes: The Private Lives of Your Favorite Toys, Last Stop: 2,800 Drowned NYC Subway Cars Turned Marine Habitats, Orwellian Birthday: Party Hats Put on Public CCTV Cameras. To the west of the central block stood the male wards, workshops, boiler house, water tower and maintenance department. The main complex comprised an administrative block, central stores, kitchens, a recreation hall and the assistant medical officer's residence. R.I.P. 7 replies. If you want to stay updated with the progress of destruction and demolition, Hellingly Asylum has a Facebook page. Some people do not enjoy visiting the dentist. Park House, a hospital annexe for acute cases was located to the southwest of the main asylum and a small isolation hospital for infectious diseases was placed in the woods to the far north-west of the grounds to reduce the risk of infection. Messages 3,390 Name Luke Woodford Edit My Images No Jul 28, 2009 #1 Over the last few months most of you know I have been photographing the place. But there was something scarier than guard dogs and ghosts within Hellingly . R.I.P. Opened in 1903 it remained in use until 1994. Hine: Location: Hellingly: Alternate Names : East Sussex Asylum: History . or is it? The asylum was designed by George […] Hellingly Hospital History. The Asylum was known as Mental Hospital from 1919 and in 1948 it came under the control of the National Health Service, exercised through the Hailsham Hospital Management Committee (for minutes see HE7, HE15). The hospital, including the engine shed, were demolished in 2011 and the site is now occupied by housing. (Unless otherwise credited, all images are from Howzey, urban explorer and photographer extraordinaire.). We salute urban adventurers in general and howzey specifically this time for sharing his pictures with us. In 1903 the East Sussex County Asylum (later named Hellingly Hospital) opened its doors to admitting new patients. This psychiatric hospital opened its doors in 1903 in order to accommodate the overcrowding at the Sussex County Asylum. Initially a route from Polegate to Hailsham was … Hellingly Hospital, formerly the East Sussex County Asylum was a large psychiatric hospital close to the village of Hellingly, east of Hailsham, in the English county of East Sussex. The line led from the Hellingly Station to the boiler house and was used principally for transporting coal for the heating boilers and electricity plant. On the grounds, there could be found “body trolleys” for transporting human remains into this chamber of the dead. It followed the compact arrow plan - central core services such as administration and kitchens were placed in the center, male wards and maintenance buildings to the west, and female wards with sewing shops and nurse's quarters to the east. Here’s an ode to abandoned Hellingly Mental Asylum with 33 creepy photos. Outside one of the roasted toasty corridors is one of the many padded cells rooms. Here’s an ode to abandoned Hellingly Mental Asylum with 33 photos. Jeremy Gibbs aka RomanyWG is an urban explorer who takes stunning photographs of his wanderings. 140 Members. By 2003 the site had become popular with urban explorers who came to document the vast abandoned complex. Planning for the building began in 1898 and GT Hine designed the hospital in his trade mark compact arrow form, with the male wards to the west of the site. Hellingly Hospital, Sussex Victorian Mental Hospital designed by George Thomas Hine and built in 1903, it closed it's doors in... See more. It’s being demolished. During the mid-1980s, Hellingly was chosen as one of five mental hospital sites in the south east of England to accommodate a medium secure unit, known as Ashen Hill and located to the east of the main buildings and villas. This page was last edited on 30 July 2019, at 06:09. Plans are underway for more units alongside the new housing. Hellingly Asylum even had its own morgue and the above body fridge. The architect G.T. HELLINGLY. Oct 3, 2012 - Over the last few months most of you know I have been photographing the place. Hellingly Hospital once dominated the area east of the village and was the principal mental hospital for East Sussex. The top photo shows what was once a service area. Hellingly Hospital, was a large psychiatric hospital close to the village of Hellingly, east of Hailsham, in the English county of East Sussex. Only a few of original buildings now remain, although the Ashen Hill secure unit continues to operate on site. The female wards were located on the east side of the hospital along with the laundry, sewing room and a nurses' home. The hospital was built at the turn of the twentieth century because of problems of overcrowding at the Haywards Health Asylum, formerly the Sussex County Asylum. In theory, that is why security guards were hired. From Yesterday it's … Patients and staff all lived in red brick buildings, villas of this gigantic asylum. Despite unexplained noises in the deserted and decaying asylum, would you have kept going if you ran into the ghosts in the lower right photo? Photos; Discussions; Members; Map; About; Discussions (8) is hellingly really getting demolished?? Since the asylum has been abandoned and left to slowly rot, exposure to the weather was not the only thing hammering on Hellingly. May 31, 2013 - Hellingly Hospital, formerly the East Sussex County Asylum, Hellingly, UK- Partially Demolished BRIEF HISTORY OF EASTBOURNE - TUNBRIDGE WELLS (CUCKOO) LINE The `Cuckoo Line' from Polegate to Eridge was completed in two stages. Most of the psychiatric hospital is to be replaced by new housing. Hellingly Hospital, Sussex Victorian Mental Hospital designed by George Thomas Hine and built in 1903, it closed it's doors in 1994. To see Dave’s gallery of photographs click on any image. Pevensey Castle, Pevensey. Given its sad state of decay for 26 years, nature was trying to reclaim Hellingly. Sadly, a few years ago a fire destroyed the shed and it was demolished. Abandoned Places in the Architecture category. Only a couple of years ago, the abandoned building which was at one time Hellingly Hospital was demolished to make room for a housing estate, though why anyone would want to live there is beyond me.
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