Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum (St Georges) January 2010

[sj9966]

The Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum was founded in 1818 on Corporation Street, Stafford.
It later became St George's Hospital and closed some time during the mid nineties.

Visited on a snowy Sunday morning, a bit of a mission to get in. Bumped into two others as I was leaving, if you happen to see this, I hope it all went well.

It doesn't look like there is long left for it now, it is pretty much falling apart by itself but demo is looming as there are demolition tags all over the place which were not here when I visited last April. The floors that are left are really dodgy and to be honest it is that far gone it is pretty much a ruin in places.

Not a lot to see really and I still didn't manage to find the basement.

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Here's one from underneath the sagging floor.

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[sj9966]

Sorry to report that there has been another fire here, and it looks like it was pretty bad.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d132/sandyjune96/StGeorgesFire.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/8553323.stm

Picture source: http://www.staffordforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=4159&p=2