compound eye
01-02-2011, 01:23 PM
I've noticed several people have visited this one recently only to be confronted with JCBs and a huge pile of breeze blocks that once was the West [Paediatrics] Surgical Wing, so I thought I'd post a few of when things were considerably more intact & the Victorian part of the West Wing hadn't had a good going over with a duster & Mister Sheen :thumb
The history of this place is well enough known methinks, so on with the pictures. Yes, I do use HDR - coz I'm arty farty & publishers like it - BUT hopefully you'll find it still within the realms of taste -
A couple of shots of the anesthesia room ceiling 'muriel' [yes, mural] adjoining Theatre 3 of the aforementioned Surgical Wing - I have not seen photgraphs of these anywhere else in the urbex world. I think they look like something from a BoC album cover - especially the sun & rainbow -
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2731/4334795369_a748f68891_z.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4334787991_0e3a08561a_z.jpg
One of the anesthesia supplies from the same room - sadly missing it's fluorescent backplate, but hey [PS, the whole surgical wing was pitch black] -
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4334801215_6f66090254_z.jpg
Theatre 3 in all it's torchlit glory -
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4029/4334806925_cb98c62340_z.jpg
Moving into the old Victorian part, a minor surgical suite - well it had ceiling mounts for theatre lights, and several instrument & sterilization & recovery rooms on the same corridor. The blur outside of the gorgeous arch glass ceiling is heavy snow on the roof.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4049/4334824665_45fc7b6e99_z.jpg
The legendary heatlamps next door from the above shot - they always were in this beautiful 'swan dance' position, until people started shifting them about for mock horror & gore shots after January 2010.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4058/4334831649_74541a6427_z.jpg
Pinging back downstairs for one of the completely dark x-ray suites. Whilst shooting this I heard an amorous nurse in the corridor who'd snuck into the disused part to arrange her weekend bedroom antics with 'Darren' by mobile. I kid you not. My torch was doused, my breathe held, whilst I waited in the shadows for naughty nursey to return to her bedpans.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4335578944_4dc7de0689_z.jpg
...and now 'the goods', the infamous iron lung, hidden in a store room in the old A&E dept - probably my best find, ever. I believe I was one of the first to see it.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4335582912_ea28a74c1a_z.jpg
Finally, a shot of yours truly. I planned this self portrait [tripod / timer] after my first visit. The white coat & [sterile] syringe were found props, whilst the gasmask, surgical gloves and black tea in the syringe were my own. Taken in one of the recovery rooms of the old Victorian Wing.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2737/4334871263_bed9258622_z.jpg
I hope you enjoyed this whistle-stop tour of some of the finer points of LCH that are either now demolished, or spoilt by subsequent visitors... oh, and don't have nightmares. I don't do house calls... :D
PS - I really must pop back and do a few exteriors whilst the lovely Victorian balconies are still up.
The history of this place is well enough known methinks, so on with the pictures. Yes, I do use HDR - coz I'm arty farty & publishers like it - BUT hopefully you'll find it still within the realms of taste -
A couple of shots of the anesthesia room ceiling 'muriel' [yes, mural] adjoining Theatre 3 of the aforementioned Surgical Wing - I have not seen photgraphs of these anywhere else in the urbex world. I think they look like something from a BoC album cover - especially the sun & rainbow -
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2731/4334795369_a748f68891_z.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4334787991_0e3a08561a_z.jpg
One of the anesthesia supplies from the same room - sadly missing it's fluorescent backplate, but hey [PS, the whole surgical wing was pitch black] -
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4334801215_6f66090254_z.jpg
Theatre 3 in all it's torchlit glory -
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4029/4334806925_cb98c62340_z.jpg
Moving into the old Victorian part, a minor surgical suite - well it had ceiling mounts for theatre lights, and several instrument & sterilization & recovery rooms on the same corridor. The blur outside of the gorgeous arch glass ceiling is heavy snow on the roof.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4049/4334824665_45fc7b6e99_z.jpg
The legendary heatlamps next door from the above shot - they always were in this beautiful 'swan dance' position, until people started shifting them about for mock horror & gore shots after January 2010.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4058/4334831649_74541a6427_z.jpg
Pinging back downstairs for one of the completely dark x-ray suites. Whilst shooting this I heard an amorous nurse in the corridor who'd snuck into the disused part to arrange her weekend bedroom antics with 'Darren' by mobile. I kid you not. My torch was doused, my breathe held, whilst I waited in the shadows for naughty nursey to return to her bedpans.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4335578944_4dc7de0689_z.jpg
...and now 'the goods', the infamous iron lung, hidden in a store room in the old A&E dept - probably my best find, ever. I believe I was one of the first to see it.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4335582912_ea28a74c1a_z.jpg
Finally, a shot of yours truly. I planned this self portrait [tripod / timer] after my first visit. The white coat & [sterile] syringe were found props, whilst the gasmask, surgical gloves and black tea in the syringe were my own. Taken in one of the recovery rooms of the old Victorian Wing.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2737/4334871263_bed9258622_z.jpg
I hope you enjoyed this whistle-stop tour of some of the finer points of LCH that are either now demolished, or spoilt by subsequent visitors... oh, and don't have nightmares. I don't do house calls... :D
PS - I really must pop back and do a few exteriors whilst the lovely Victorian balconies are still up.