Greaves Hall Asylum

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After years of wanting to see this site I finally got the chance and all I can say is it was well worth the wait!!
Greaves Hall was originally custom built as a mansion for Lord Scarisbrick in 1900. The house was sold and became an all girl school for some years before being taken over as a TB hospital and later a psychiatric hospital. When the psychiatric unit was transfered to Liverpool hospital in 1997 Greaves Hall was abandoned and has since endured endless acts of vandalism and arson, the most major of which in 2004 sadly caused the demolition of much of the building.
Though this site is well worth a look, the fire damage has really taken its toll on the remainder of the building, the floor is extremely unstable throughout most of the building and unless you fancy a climb up some very loose bricks, the top floors are inaccessible so take extra caution when visiting this site.
Anyways my thanks to Broughton Boy and Buried Alive for coming along was really nice meeting you! And also apologies for the photos' poor quality... my camera is a sack of shite ENJOY!!


Main building at night:



Don't know if you can make it out but despite the fire and collapse of roof, the clock on the top right wall has survived.










All that remains of the stairs to first floor


We found some of the original flooring in the main room




Main corridor in basement






This was the first thing we saw as we came in (apart from the huge hole in the floor) I think it was something to do with staff training...


Found this cool site that's got photos from the building as it was being built in 1900 and some lovely old shots of the girls' school and hospital before it became derelict, as well as to-date ones and some history on the building too! http://slideintime.com/html/greaves_hall.html

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Here is a few of mine. Didnt know this place existed.
Nice to meet you, was a good day out

Water Tower (shame there is no access)


Few from the inside







Is it a ghost? is it a plane???? No just some tool with a torch!


An attempt at painting with a widdley torch


And a couple of HDR



The Aura

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And here are a few of mine

A few of the basement (very damp and drippy!)







Floating stairs


a first floor radiator from the ground floor


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