Modern Old Centre237 viewsModern meets old, seamlessly!!
NOT.
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Back Wide Angle309 viewsI'm instantly picked up by CCTV here and routed to the MainHolm CCTV centre!
The cameras pan around and watch me touring the site.
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Location139 viewsThe Calton Centre for the Deaf.
WHAT??
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Location277 viewsThe first sight that greets you as you round the drive to the main building; stately!
John Travolta once tried to buy this place to convert it into a wacko-nut-job Scientology(TM) centre! Unfortunately, while the local council were impressed with his offer financially, they refused it because of a low Thetan-Count (or some such other bollox)!
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The Model Map42 viewsIf every cloud has a silver lining - this site's is that the sales centre (where they are desperately trying to flog off their new houses) has very detailed models and maps of where we are!
We talk with the salesman for a while, he tells us that when the project first started each flat was for sale for at least £140,000... Today he was pushing us to take one for £100,000 and I got the impression we could have talked him down. Economic Recession = a buyer's market.
Anyways, looking at this cute wee model (with the listed buildings in white), I identified the following:
1 - The original administration building
2 - The medical superintendent's residences
3 - The kitchens
4 - The original X-Ray pavilion and wards (http://www.turbozutek.f2s.com/thumbnails.php?album=60)
5 - The Acute Admissions (Triage) building
6 - The Panda Centre
7 - The Women and Children Unit
8 - Ross House (the subject of today's assize)
* - Fuck knows, these currently don't exist or have been knocked down.
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The Panda Centre104 viewsOutside the Panda Centre - for some reason, it's locked tight and totally solid.
There is no way in that we can find!
Oh well, better just go home, eh?
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Fossy Enters167 views
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Electricity Monitoring183 viewsWasting no time, we let ourselves in!
This was one of the main power distribution / switching centres. Still smelt of oil and... Electricity!!
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1Location - Ross House34 viewsWe move onto Ross House - a massive Art Deco BLOCK which smacks of originally being nurses' accommodation perhaps?
Before it closed it was a seminar centre with meeting rooms, Medical Records, office space and the IT base for the hospital.
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Corridor107 viewsInside the centre for the deaf.
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Visitors Corridor117 viewsThe main corridor seems to be setup as something of a 'visitor's centre' - with colourful (if very 80's) maps and diagrams on the wall explaining the need for and operation of the plant.
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Reception Desk117 viewsAt one point this would have looked pretty slick I think.
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Burnt Main Hall Stage124 viewsInside the 'main hall' and someone has been busy with the matches! How this place (which is mostly made of wood and paper) didn't go up like a fireworks factory I'm not sure!?
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Burnt Stage118 viewsWell, that puts paid to our planned 'can can' across this stage then, hey? Lost weight or not, that scorched bit isn't going to support Fossy for a second!
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Looking Down325 viewsLooking down to the main screen... Eh... 'Suite Centre'?
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Billiards114 viewsWow, even in poor condition this has to be worth a bob or two.
Left to rot!
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Down The Hall31 viewsRow after row after row of empty rooms off this corridor. The floor above, the same - the floor below; near identical.
The clean out of this facility was 100% perfect (unlike the Panda centre): literally nothing of any interest whatsoever has been left behind.
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Drill Hall Panorama42 viewsInside the massive drill hall!
I'm a bit confused about the porta-bogs in the centre, as there are two sets of perfectly fine bogs to the left of the picture. Perhaps extra bogpacity was needed for some reason!?
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Reading Material149 viewsHere, the first seeds of suspicion about the nature of this place are sown.
We suspect...
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Main Centre373 views
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Chapel110 views....Arghhh!!! Religion!!! :-S
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Altar121 viewsSomeone has desecrated the fuck out this Alter.
Hey, they even stole the Alter!!
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Hall Daylight Centre204 views
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In the Chapel135 views
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The DataCentre121 viewsInside the 'DataCentre' - someone has excellent taste in websites!
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In the Chapel1112 views
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St Vincent119 viewsSt Vinnie, patron saint of:
charitable societies; charitable workers; charities; horses; hospital workers; hospitals; lepers; leprosy; lost articles; Madagascar; prisoners; diocese of Richmond Virginia (wtf?!); spiritual help; Saint Vincent de Paul Societies; Vincentian Service Corps; volunteers
Crap, he must have had a BUSY schedule on a week-day, eh? At the weekend at least he could relax with his horses.
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Mentions160 viewsAwwww, bye bye! Always remembered!
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Mentions1169 views
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SanIncin126 viewsAnd so we leave you... with this lone picture of a clinical incinerator in the ladies toilets.
Work it out yourself! :->
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