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Explore #17e (fifth revisit): Severalls Asylum including water tower, Colchester, Essex – September 2016

December 28, 2017

High Stuff, Hospitals & Asylums, United Kingdom

Confession time: I’d forgotten to post my fifth revisit to this beautiful old asylum, so please forgive the slight temporal glitch in my usual chronological posting! My previous reports give the detailed history and many more photos, including the most comprehensive report from my first 8-hour visit in November 2013 and a revisit by moonlight in May 2014 for something a little different. Our Explore Given that I’d previously explored ‘Sevs’ on no fewer than four five previous occasions, I’d…

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Explore #119: Odeon Cinema, Colchester, Essex – January 2015

July 25, 2015

Adam X

Industrial & Commercial Sites, Leisure Sites, United Kingdom

After our all-too brief revisit to Severalls Asylum and a traditional post-explore breakfast at McDonald’s, we decided to pay an impromptu visit to this old cinema… History The Odeon cinema, formerly the Regal cinema, was built in 1931 and designed by well-known cinema architect Cecil Masey. As well as showing films the cinema also hosted live events, including the Rolling Stones who played two shows there in September 1964. In the 1970s it was known as the Odeon Film Centre,…

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Explore #17d (fourth revisit): Severalls Asylum, Colchester, Essex – January 2015

July 23, 2015

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Hospitals & Asylums, United Kingdom

Just a very brief report this time… of what turned out to be a very brief revisit of Sevs – yes, we were busted within about 45 minutes by Michael the famous security guard! Please see my previous reports for the history and other photos of this Asylum… including the most comprehensive report from my first 8-hour visit in November 2013 and my revisit by moonlight in May 2014 for something a little different. Our Explore We arrived before dawn,…