Dissimulate
06-05-2011, 06:16 PM
Not a scheduled report, but after a fail at another site we decided to pop over here as Mr Ex had yet to see it, its very well boarded/shuttered up now and it looks like the local authority have kinda managed to stay on top of it this time.
Never the less, like a drunken night with "that girl" we kinda managed to slip inside (ooh err), only we managed to kill almost 2 hours in there and not 2 minutes followed by several weeks of awkwardness.
Its wrecked in there, like really really wrecked, like more wrecked that a chav on cowies and white star hew! the window with the family crest is now shattered and there is evidence of scrap collectors that have maybe had to leave in a hurry.
Still, i love this place, there's still lovely features in there and some of the plaster work is still actually in 1 piece! As always with me i managed to discover bits that i had never ventured into before, this time heading out the back to the bricked up courtyard.
A little info for anyone thats never seen a report on this place (and if you haven't, where have you been hiding eh??):
Built by the Furness family in 1894, shipbuilders by trade.
Its a 3 story, 30 room mansion which boasted a ball room and even an indoor swimming pool.
in 1948 the property was taken over by Hartlepool council who put it to several uses, eventually ending its working life as part of a college/training center. Looked after by house sitters who rented rooms for the sum of £100 each which included all bills.
By 2006 it was totally abandoned and the chavs started their reign of terror upon this beautiful place, constantly setting fires, stripping it of anything they could flog of weigh in, using it as a doss house or a place to shoot up, drink, get high etc (there is evidence of squatters still under the false floor in the "wet room/pool room" upstairs) and eventually burning the ballroom down early 2010.
So anyway, some photos! the fisheye ones were taken with my fellow explorer's sigma 10-20 on my full frame 5d, they put an EF mount on a lens not compatible with full frame but strangely worked almost perfectly as an ultra wide angle fisheye... score!
1.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image13.jpg
2.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4658.jpg
3.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4652.jpg
4.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image1-1.jpg
5.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image2-1.jpg
6. some of the beautiful original ceiling plaster work.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4485.jpg
7.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4486.jpg
8.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image3-1.jpg
9.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image4-1.jpg
10.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image6.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image12.jpg
11.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image8.jpg
12.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image11.jpg
13. This shot makes me think if the start of the old Mr Bean sketches.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4521.jpg
14.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4587.jpg
15.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4602.jpg
16.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4611.jpg
17.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4623.jpg
18.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4633.jpg
Never the less, like a drunken night with "that girl" we kinda managed to slip inside (ooh err), only we managed to kill almost 2 hours in there and not 2 minutes followed by several weeks of awkwardness.
Its wrecked in there, like really really wrecked, like more wrecked that a chav on cowies and white star hew! the window with the family crest is now shattered and there is evidence of scrap collectors that have maybe had to leave in a hurry.
Still, i love this place, there's still lovely features in there and some of the plaster work is still actually in 1 piece! As always with me i managed to discover bits that i had never ventured into before, this time heading out the back to the bricked up courtyard.
A little info for anyone thats never seen a report on this place (and if you haven't, where have you been hiding eh??):
Built by the Furness family in 1894, shipbuilders by trade.
Its a 3 story, 30 room mansion which boasted a ball room and even an indoor swimming pool.
in 1948 the property was taken over by Hartlepool council who put it to several uses, eventually ending its working life as part of a college/training center. Looked after by house sitters who rented rooms for the sum of £100 each which included all bills.
By 2006 it was totally abandoned and the chavs started their reign of terror upon this beautiful place, constantly setting fires, stripping it of anything they could flog of weigh in, using it as a doss house or a place to shoot up, drink, get high etc (there is evidence of squatters still under the false floor in the "wet room/pool room" upstairs) and eventually burning the ballroom down early 2010.
So anyway, some photos! the fisheye ones were taken with my fellow explorer's sigma 10-20 on my full frame 5d, they put an EF mount on a lens not compatible with full frame but strangely worked almost perfectly as an ultra wide angle fisheye... score!
1.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image13.jpg
2.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4658.jpg
3.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4652.jpg
4.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image1-1.jpg
5.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image2-1.jpg
6. some of the beautiful original ceiling plaster work.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4485.jpg
7.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4486.jpg
8.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image3-1.jpg
9.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image4-1.jpg
10.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image6.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image12.jpg
11.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image8.jpg
12.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/Image11.jpg
13. This shot makes me think if the start of the old Mr Bean sketches.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4521.jpg
14.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4587.jpg
15.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4602.jpg
16.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4611.jpg
17.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4623.jpg
18.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/white_cluster/IMG_4633.jpg