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

April 6, 2014

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…

Explore #17b (second revisit): Santa Severalls! Severalls Asylum, Colchester, Essex – December 2013

December 21, 2013

Adam X

Hospitals & Asylums, United Kingdom

“So what are you up to this weekend Adam?” “Well, I’ll be getting up in the middle of the night to meet about 30 other urban explorers to all dress up as Santa at an abandoned asylum of course…” The premise was simple: everyone get on site under cover of darkness, meet at the agreed location, and wait for daylight for a few quick group shots before splitting off into smaller groups to explore before security started their first rounds.…