The Final Days of Runwell Hospital - Unreleased 2012 Adventure
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- This new film for 2020 takes a look back at our unreleased footage from 2012 exploring Runwell Hospital during its demolition. Today, it forms St. Luke's Park; a luxury housing estate.
Remember this was filmed eight years ago and so our camera quality and skills featured are far inferior to our current standards!
Please subscribe to stay tuned for our follow-up video which will see what's left of the hospital today.
For more information on the history, including our photos, visit our website: beyondthepoint....
It's bittersweet coming across this video. I'd always known that my great-grandfather had died at runwell hospital at christmas 1965 but never knew it was a psychiatric hospital until watching this. He was the grandson of the mayor of Cork, Ireland but lived a very hard life as a dockworker in east London. He served in WW1, was a firefighter during the blitz and lost his home when it was destroyed with his mother still inside. I suppose it's no surprise he ended up here. A very sad story but thank you for creating this video as it helped me to learn more about his later years.
just to offer you some context about Runwell Hospital it was actually the mental health asylum that took patient from East end of London due to his location, of being surrounded by fields. I am sure right in saying that the East End of London paid for Runwell Hospital to be created, as there was wards called Bowlyn and Plashet all names of places associated with the East End of London.
Oh my goodness! I remember this place i worked there for 4years - i knew every part of it like the back of my Hands! It was just like a small Village - everybody knew each other, Staff and lots of Patients (now called Clients). The grounds were kept pristine and had beautiful flowerbeds - all down to the Head Gardener, Mr Deakins. There was a Canteen, Big Grand Hall, with a proper Stage, a Hairdressers Salon, an Occupational Therapy Unit, a Neurology Unit above OT, had many slices of Brains in Perspex Files - a Top Neuro-Surgeon would come and Lecture us - he was one of the Country's leading Neurologist from St Barts Hospital - brilliant! There was a Physiotherapy Dept, a small OT Unit for the elderly, run by a very caring Husband and Wife Team, a Shop, a Welfare Office, Accounts Office a Wages Office, a Medical Records Office, I had the chance to be locked in a volted Room, with four Staff Members from Welfare and Accounts Office, whereby we had to fill weekly paid Staff's Packets with Wages - that was a good experience. - downstairs in the Admin Block near the Main Entrance there was a small Room, kept secret which housed 1000's of Medical Records of Deceased and Discharged, which i had great pleasure spending time in, sitting on Step-ladders filing and Browsing - SOo interesting! There was also an ECT Suite, an X-ray Dept, an Electroencephalographic Dept (EEG), a Chapel whereby i had the pleasure of going up into the Belfry, Massive Kitchens - Mr Fitt was one of the Head Chefs. I have undoubtedly missed so much out. I must say the time spent here was wonderful, from Cadet Nurse until i started my RMN Training was really great! And it is extremely sad to see this Hospital totally wiped off the face of the Planet - almost as if it never existed - hard to watch this video but much appreciated! Thankyou Guys 😑😐🤨😮😥😫😓😢😭
It was very interesting seeing Runwell hospital it does look same any more very sad seeing now l use to work at Runwell hospital back 1977 as Nurse assistant my mum work at Runwell hospital for 20 years and my sister was patient at hospital back in 1975 we lot of memories of hospital
I worked here 48 years ago and may I dismiss
that this wonderful place was in anyway scary, I worked with the Hospital maintenance team as an apprentice Bricklayer, my twin Brother worked as an apprentice Carpenter my step Dad worked as a Maintenance steam Engineer looking after the kitchens and laundry and Power House, my Mum worked in the Laundry, The complex was like a Village where everybody new everybody including the Patients, I new very many personally and as friends and had great respect for them, I was friends with the Chief Hospital Administrator to ward cleaners and nurses, There was nothing scary or weird about Runwell Hospital, everyone were family including the Patients.
Thanks Guys for the trip down memory lane I did get quite emotional when I saw my old ward but thankful for a last glimpse of it . I cannot speak for others but I really loved working there I have met some amazing people with different stories. My time there is full of fond memories of the clientele and staff as one big family and so proud to have been a part off .
Thank you for your comment! It’s good to hear it brought back some good memories and to get an opinion of it from someone that experienced it first hand :)
Which ward did you work on? I worked on Hullbridge forensic ward, and before that Boleyn One. Worked there for 2 years from 2001 - 2003
@@scottpyle5136 Belfairs from 2007 and then transferred to the new build a couple of years later
That is the high security risk part with the fences. I worked there once doing telecoms when they moved the ward and had to go through a secure room before the ward and take anything sharp out of pockets etc. the ward was called plashet.
Chalkwell ward, Boleyn ward, laburnum ward, harmen ward were the last wards to close. The wards with the high fences had high risk patients, those often deemed too unwell to be in prison, they were sent to the secure wards instead
Me and a team of others worked there one day a week for a time cutting the grass before 2003 but im not sure the last we were there.A few large buildings over to the far left as you drove in the main road past the Chapel had been closed for quite some years and were very overgrown then.We basically just had to cut the grass around the buildings still in use and leave everything else ie shrubs , hedges, weeds basically the leased maintance as needed.The patients canteen was on its own over to the right at rear.The high fenced area was for high risk patients ( i had to be locked in the area to cut the grass then be let out).I remember using the staff canteen and seeing the shop for the patients.
Hi Guys, thank you ever so much for the watching of your film on the old Runwell Hospital, it was very much interesting as you crept from section to section. Of the digital photographs that you took have you ever shared them or uploaded to a web site, as it would be also interesting to study the old, old building.
Did you ever take into mind the possible usage of asbestos used before.
My main interest in the Runwell is that I have done genealogical research for some 32/33 years and I know that a very distant relative died at the hospital in September 1971, that is what I was searching for, Runwell Hospital historical records.
Once again thank you...
Runwell came under the Southend Health authority, not sure if they can give historical records of patients. Might be worth a try
I have very vague memories of visiting a family contact/friend (not sure who it was) at Runwell Hospital - I would guess it was around 1975-80 (I would have been aged around 7+ hence very vague memories) however, my memories as a child were that this was a "sad place" to visit.
I like your work👍💯😊
Great memories! I will claim the mx crew spray paint at the end in the little building
Alot of the ward shut down long before the eventual closure of the entire site . Alot had been closed down since the early 1990s
Would have loved to have been able to get inside, especially when totally dark.
Hi I used to be the Security there from 2011 to 2012. Caught lots of people entering the site day and night. Spooky place that was haunted.
Cheers for your comment - we managed to dodge you back in the day then 😂. I bet you had a fair job on your hands but an interesting place to see - did you leave after demolition?
This Place was Definately haunted whilst it was 'up and running' so to speak! From very reliable sources i have been told stories from the Night Staff of what they'd experienced. As beautiful as the 'new Estate is - there's no way i'd live there - too many tortured Souls have passed here
I@@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471I worked there . Laburnum was known to be the haunted ward. Can't say I ever felt anything in the Years I worked there.
Nice explore lads. As for the water tower I reckon the developers will have looked at it and said "Stuff it, we could put another dozen houses here and make a fortune" or something like that. When money is involved principals go out of the window.
Haha it would seem so. I think someone in the comments here managed to tell us what actually happened
It was originally meant to be closed in the 1980s or early 90s
Sandringham and Windsor were shut in early 90s
Just looked on google - area looks unrecognizable now.
9:06 This was the main exercise yard for those held in Plashet 1 ward, a high security ward housing murderers and serial killers. My ex partner used to be the staff nurse on this ward, responsible for administering drugs and meds to the patients.. we lived in staff house road before the eviction notices came and were one of the last to leave the street. Pleased that the lodge is still standing, had some crazy nights there with staff 😮😂
Interesting cheers for sharing 😄
There was Plashet 1 and 2.... Which then changed. Plashet was the ward upstairs and Hullbridge downstairs. I worked on Hullbridge. What was your partners name? I probably worked with them
@raymondtrump I used to live in staff house rd with my mum and step dad I wonder if I knew u?
Trying to access the place today - can you help us with finding its location. They've built a whole new housing estate in the area
Precisely, it says that it was demolished in the video 😂. Only a few small parts left and refitted
@@BeyondthePoint lol it's what happens when you don't read the small print -we spent 2 hours walking the fields, asking builders etc lol.......you found any other decent places in essex - that's still explorable
It’s in there at the start and the end haha. But fair play for having a look, there’s always something to see. Yeah take a look at our other videos here, most are in Essex or just the other side of the Thames in Kent 🙂
@@BeyondthePoint so part of the building is still there? - is that what you are saying?
@@BeyondthePoint is it down runwell chase?
Got my covid jab in the remaining bit
Adventure? It's called trespassing..
Adventure begins where boundaries end 😁
as is proven by this Video - some 'things have just GOT to be done! 😋
It was built by the public for the public. Just with different ends in mind.
Ha! I managed to get a pun in Richard Whiteley style.
@@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471 Indeed, this is some of the little footage left of the place now its gone!