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Explore #41: St Peter’s Mortuary, Chertsey, Surrey – March 2014

April 7, 2014

After my climb of Kings Reach Tower, and my visit to CMH being cut short by the Ghurka security my energy was starting to wane. Nevertheless I was determined to give this location another go, having failed during a previous visit in August 2013, and was rewarded with gaining access this time! A very brief history St. Peter’s Hospital was initially built to house the casualties of the Second World War. The mortuary was built in the 1940s, but after…

Explore #40: Cambridge Military Hospital (maternity ward), Aldershot, Hampshire – March 2014

April 6, 2014

Adam X

Hospitals & Asylums, Military Sites, United Kingdom

After a night of breathtaking views in great company on the Kings Reach Tower climb it was time to make the middle-of-the-night drive solo down to Aldershot for my next target – Cambridge Military Hospital (or CMH to its friends). It was a surreal experience coming down from the adrenaline high of earlier in the night and driving around an almost deserted M25 at about 3.45am – at one point I must have driven for over a minute without seeing…

Explore #27: St. John’s Asylum, Bracebridge Heath, Lincolnshire – January 2014

January 25, 2014

Adam X

Hospitals & Asylums, United Kingdom

This was a flying visit (in and out in about 30 minutes) at the end of a long day of exploring with Unexposed Exploration. We nearly didn’t bother doing this explore as we were both utterly exhausted (Matthew actually took two attempts to get over the fence on the way out, which is pretty much unheard of!), but I wanted to give the site a quick recce and get a shot of its famous split staircase. The site is very…