We Explore This Abandoned Asylum And Set All The Alarms Off Avoiding Security!
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- Опубликовано: 2 сен 2022
- Today we’re exploring an abandoned Asylum which was originally opened In 1879 and closed around 2019. It was reopened In 2021 as a Vaccination Centre for the Coronavirus Outbreak but then closed again. It was used as a mental health facility In the south of England which was managed by Southern NHS Trust. The main structure is a Grade II listed building and Is currently Undergoing building works.
History…
In 1875 the Town Council made the decision to build a lunatic asylum, at this time mental patients were sent to the Hampshire County Asylum at Knowle, or even as far as Camberwell to the asylum there. It was agreed that a local facility was needed, so 75 acres of land was purchased at a cost of £14,000, from Messrs Smith and Goldsmith.
The architect Mr George Rake of Portsea was appointed to design the hospital, which was built in the Byzantine Gothic style using Fareham Brick, the building was faced with Plymouth stone.
The memorial stone was laid on 11th July 1876 by Mayor William Pink and the building was due to be completed in 1878 but the main contractors Baily and Nance went bankrupt causing a delay, the building was finally completed in 1879. The opening ceremony on 30th September 1879 was performed by Mayor W.King, the farm buildings, church and boundary walls were not completed until later the same year.
The hospital buildings included a dairy, laundry, brewery, shoe makers and tailors, as well as the farm, farm buildings and St James' Chapel.
Between 16th October 1879 and 31st December 1800, 453 patients were admitted and treated. They came from the following areas, Portsea Island 162, Bethnal House 1, Camberwell 1, Southampton 105, Surrey 81, Windsor 1, Brighton 1, Criminal Lunatic 1, Private patients 16.
The nursing staff consisted of 11 male attendants, 14 female nurses and various employees classed as servants including a stoker, head gardener, gardeners, farm baliff, farm labourers, carpenter, bricklayer, brewer, shoemaker and tailor.
The hospital rules stated that each nurse and servant was allowed to go out once every fortnight between 2pm until 9.45pm and every second Sunday from 4pm until 9.45pm. After 12 months good behaviour one weeks holiday would be given and after 2 years ten days holiday will be given.
The rules for government of the Borough of Portsmouth Lunatic Asylum were signed by the Mayor WD King on April 15th 1879 and approved by Mr Aston Cross one of the principal secretaries of state on the 14th October 1879.
The Committee of Visitors was formed by members of Portsmouth Council, this consisted of The Mayor WD King, Alderman Dore, Keat and Chambers and 14 councillors. They were responsible for the running of the asylum and would meet within 20 days after 20th December each year.
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A really nice looking building. So stately looking. I agree that they shouldn't have painted over the old stuff. Glad to hear it won't be demolished. Great explore.
My mum says there was so much more to explore and she is greatly disappointed that you missed out so much. She didn't get to see the wards she worked on, the kitchens, the laundry, the pharmacy, the chapel (separate building), the porters lodge, E.C.T room, the children's ward (separate building) and other stuff that she can't think of right now.
Blast chillers are for food storage. Chill warm food down quickly so it doesn't go off to quickly
They really knew how to build beautiful buildings years ago.
Loved this explore, I’m so glad it’ll be saved.
Thank you for showing us 💖💖💖
Makes me so annoyed that there are so many places like this all over, yet we still have so many ex service men homeless people living on the streets especially as the winter is creeping in so fast, why isn"t there more done with places like this where they could have a roof above there heads! the council & athorities could so easily do something about this! makes my blood boil!!👿👿👿.
No one should be homeless when there is buildings like this available to convert into apartments. Good video like the bit with the security guard cleaning his car🤣 and also the climb up to the clock tower was cool, nice one colin keep up with the good work look forward to your videos keep safe 🙂👍
Andy Gevan . I fully agree . These buildings should be bought and restored !!
You know I agree with you. We have the problems in the USA. They can use the place like you said they have a kitchen so some of can cook for the rest . Give them a perpes in life & a chance in life.
Buildings like this have character and workmanship, not found in the new builds of today.What a fantastic place. The building is well bugged with the cameras and alarms. It’s great that this one will be saved, when so many won’t. It’ll make a great conversation to apartments. I think that some of the psychiatric patients with violent tendencies, would have been kept locked up for their own safety and that of others. That was a brave move climbing into the clock tower, but so worth it. Thanks for taking us round.
I wish I was 30+ years younger and RUclips existed! I would be so down to explore! I'm living vicariously through you! I am totally not brave like you! I'd freak out immediately if I tripped an alarm!
Never too old to explore my friend
Thanks for another great explore 👌 loved it 👍 take care my friend much love 💘❤ 💘 ❤
Totally agree with the modern crap part. So much effort and time was put into constructing things of intricate design years ago. And not much of that being done these days I am afraid to say. Thank you for the video.
I'm a contractor regularly working in this building and have done for many years. It's very sad to have seen it close bit by bit over the years. I remember seeing the padded cells in the basement a few years ago, Assuming they are still there, not been in the basement for a while. Great video, thank you for sharing.
Explore safe bro nice one
Every horror movie 🎬 you've ever seen. Something gonna jump out and get you especially in the morgue creepy.
The movie The Shining comes to mind seeing the size of that place. The CLOCKMASTER......congrats on the find.
Another great video, your comments about the 'security guard' made me laugh.
Oh your braver then me I don't have the knees to do that.
🧠💪 sending good thoughts 🙋♂️💙🎼❤️
Top job guys
Love the old hospital,so pretty and full of stories,having been a nurse for over 40yrs,I love seeing them much better than the modern ones.how do you know Hasler?
Haslar was one of my first videos in here 🙂
I was giggling like an idiot when you walked past the security guard! 100% the room with the fridges was the Morgue
Cool.place Colin would be awesome to have a wee word with security and check it out some more in depth ...aye Good though ...
Back in 1991,me and friends used to explore the royal holloway sanatorium in Virginia water,surrey,it was a colossal gothic style building,sometimes we would explore for six hours at a time,we would find endless padded sells,hospital wards beautiful ornate staircases,the list goes on and on,it was a truly fascinating and incredible building place to explore,with huge painting on the walls,corridors that went on and on,small rooms with prison style barred doors.in 1994,a thirteen million package was given to restore it to it's original splendor,which was good because it truly is one of the most stunning buildings I've ever seen.
Yes it was a Red Robin brush! What an exciting explore! So glad you didn't get busted. It's a shame the building will get changed but at least it's not getting knocked down. I really love these building tours you do. 😊👌
I had so much anxiety following you through this one! Yep.. that straight up was a morgue!! Creepy! Thanks for sharing!! 🥴
The morgue was a detached stone-built single storey building the the north-west of the main building.
What you saw in the film were the hospital kitchens.
My mum says the bit with the stage is the hall, was never a chapel. It has its own chapel separate in the grounds.
That was brilliant, amazing video keep them coming that clock tower was awesome, and as for Security washing his car was great too lmao 🙏👏👏👏
What a beautiful building and in a fairly good condition, I must admit it that turning it into appartments is the only way for this building to survive . You did well to go up to the top of the clock tower. Yes that was the remains on the morgue. The hall with the stage was probably a Chapel originally. Well done, I enjoyed watching this 💕🇦🇺
The hall was always the Entertainments Hall - when I was a student there in the early 90s, long-stay patients would sometimes play the grand piano you could still see there, and cadge fags from us, as hospital staff and visitors buzzed around. There is a separate chapel in the grounds, built I think when the main building was, opposite one of the villas that were built in the 20s. Many of the areas you saw were used as admin by the time I was there (nursing school, personnel, management suites) but there were still some wards too. The area you went into at first used to be elderly care I think, a mix of day units and 24-hr. The little garden used to be outside Goddard Day Unit (for people with dementia), and weirdly that little 'smoking building' used to be signposted as a dialysis unit I think! A fascinating place.
This is why i love your channel you explore some awesome places. I love u guys and have fun and be safe.
My father was the head gardener here from 1960 1974. I was born here and brought up in West Lodge just inside the entrance in Locksway Rd.
I know where you are, both my parents use to work there. My mum was a nurse there when I was little (think she left there in 1999) and my dad was a porter there (think he left there before I was born). My mum has been hoping you would go to her old work for so long and now you have, and she can't wait to watch this video with me later.
@24m congrats you just got the security sacked lol :)
I used to work here back in 2014, it was the district nursing base. It was most eerie walking through the corridors on lates, equally the corridors were also good for galloping down too. Rumour has it there were padded cells in the lower floors, rooms with specimens and goodness knows what else in too - not sure how true it was though.
Great explore colin
I'm not even 9 minutes in and I am so excited! This is so cool!
Was it only me that saw a face in the water damaged panel to the left of the Police tape?
I saw it too.
Great explore keep finding them
If i was security and i seen lights coming on in the corridor i would not be going in i would carry on washing my car aswell 😆
100% 😂
Colin has to be one of your best absolutely stunning 👍✔️
Nice job mate. We had a similar experience 😉👍
Well done Mandy for climbing up on the door and through the hatch you go girl
What a really nice building.Hopefully whatever they turn it into,they will keep some of the original features.
it would be kinda funny if the security guards boss watches this video!
😅
if it was anything like our former hospital before that got closed down and bulldozed it will have been one bloke in a van ..and chances are he won t even have been interested ..
Great video today thanks for what you do and good to see that the security never got you or knows anything about you till he's watching you and finished washing the car that's funny 😁 😂 😀
Hi Colin. Hope your doing good.
That was one very amazing video. That place is huge.
Take care and stay safe.
Subscribed a month or so ago and have been watching through all your videos. Still lots to go but loving them! So well put together with the music and you’re so careful with everything you find. Keep up the good work. I’d have been terrified to get stuck in that place with all the coded doors!! New favourite channel! ❤
Love your videos, look forward to the next
Well if they ever did turn this into some kind of flats it better be blessed or something first, because if it's like any other Asylum it's probably had plenty of ghost stories due to the amount of people that have passed away there.
Great explore! We film for our channel in France but I think we need a UK roadtrip!
This video made me jump so much! Brilliant stuff ❤️
Love your videos Colin but I wish you wouldn’t show how you get in or the front of the building as with Google lens irs easy to find the locations and then unscrupulous people go in and vandalise.
Love the old architecture and hope the building is re purposed rather than torn down.
Don’t worry I filmed this back in April and waited until the site had been better secured until I released the video, now there is 24 hour security & dogs on site. Also building works have started so there also on site through the day. The chances of people getting in now are very slim 🙂
Very interesting and a tad confusing as to what’s what at times. Great explore and the security guard washing his car- priceless!! 🌹
I love your videos so much, your voice is so relaxing.
I come across a lot of those coded doors in my line of work … Some reason 1066 is a really popular code
20m 100% the kitchen
Brilliant vid as always. What a lovely building and interesting to film. 👍 Would love to do an explore with you guys.
New to your channel and have been binge watching your vidoes for the past 3 days, love it!
Thanks glad your enjoying them 🙂
Just found ur channel Colin and have been binge watching. I hate seeing how people trash some of these places.. This find is the nicest kept one so far ..but wow u sure r brave! I'm always thinking something or someone will jump out at u!! Lol.. U should wear a mask for protection not to breath in all those crazy smells.. amazing finds thank u for ur exploring 💗 wonder if anyone watching actually worked there?? That would be cool to know!
That has to be a smoking hut its full of weed 😆 🤣 😂
Just catching up on your videos and brilliant as usual.
Just read an article on the evening news website about you. Couldn't not subscribe as ya from Pompey! PUP. Great vids too👍
Thank you for this lovely video. It was so lovely to see my old working place. Especially lovely to hear the Reeeeh, when you'd reached the clock tower. Many thanks from an old Reeeeeh bird from the dirty old 'teeeeen'
Made me smile. Thank you both ☺️
That place is huge. Great explore. New to your channel! Love it so far. I'm subscribed to several explorers but I'm adding you to my list too 😊
Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷👍que lindo es ver tus videos al otro lado del mundo , me acuesto por las noches, me rajo y veo como fue el mundo y la historia de antes ..esas casas, esos muebles antiguos tan lindos valorable en la calidad que hacían todas las cosas antes.ecitos!!! 👏👏👏👏👌✋🇦🇷👍🐧Soy de Ushuaia.
aw love when do video's like these 💙💙
Impressive video 👍 Equal CBM
Did you ever go to Cane Hill in Coulsdon and West Park and the Epsom cluster Asylums before they were knocked down and redeveloped? I carried out asbestos surveys to them all in 2005. St Augustine & Leybourne in Kent, Greylingwell too. Amazing places!
Hey you, I am quite new follower on your channel and I really really like your gentle and charming personality. Don't know which I like more, urbex videos or you. 😅
Keep on doing good work mate! ❤️
Greetings from Finland!
It's a great video, but please, I'm an undertaker, we don't use "morgue" as it's an "Americanism" we say "mortuary" also we do not do "autopsy" but "post mortem" just saying, but otherwise a great video as usual, thank You, keep up the good work.
I could not comment on the abandoned property after this one as comments was turned off
Great explore as always. Glad to hear its not being demolished. Thanks for sharing.
Can I ask the name of the music at 0.20 please? Its quite a piece and I'd love to listen to it whole, I'm guessing its a RUclips library song?
I once filmed a period drama in a place like this. It was a disused mental hospital with a theatre and stage. Only difference was that the one we filmed in had original Victorian red brick walls. So that became a wartime hospital.
? If it is the morgue it could be a more modern style? I don't 👀 drawers for decreased folks?
The bit you first thought was the morgue is a kitchen. I spotted a kitchen fire suppression system (ansul) just as you were leaving it
Can u legally stay there in a commercial property sqaters rights and all that cannm the security or police force you to go
Hi guy, I would like to give u some heads up on your newest video where u turned off the comments for the house with all the cameras and expensive things left behind. In case I missed that there were doors with locks on the outside and so many toys and cameras, these are all signs on child trafficking. Those rooms downstairs looked to me as show casing the merchandise for sale. Be careful and thank you.
Sorry, I meant to say “ incase u missed the doors with locks”
It would be great if you re visited places so we could see how they have decayed and changed over the years
I'm watching this feeling quite nostalgic because it really reminds me of the place I used to work. Then I realise, it is the place I used to work. I loved that place. Very sad to see it like this but, good to know it won't be pulled down. Are the villas still there?? And what about the church, that is worth looking at too.
Amazing place
That alarm is a type of alarm installed for vacant propertys
Hey bearded Explorer, I really like the music in the beginning of the video. Is there a full version I can listen to?
In the US, we have a huge homeless population; those empty buildings would be filled.
If you wanted to know roughly when they last used the building then check the fire extinguishers, they have a month/year date when they were last serviced on the service label, they have to be done every year so that may help finding out what year it was abandoned
Maybe one of Jimmy Sevile's hang outs. lol
Así comprendemos lo que explicas y estamos a tono con los youtubers, acá se habla en español, idioma que hablan millones en el Mundo 🙂👍🐧
Old Craftsmanship is long gone...
You should of gone and thanked the worst ever security guard!!!
I stumbled across this by accident .... a very happy accident. I trained at St James and worked there for 13 years in total. I've walked those corridors and grounds at night so many times I couldn't tell you. It used to be as busy at night as it was during the day at one point. It was a beautiful building and I'm glad that it's being preserved...just sad it wasn't kept on for mental health needs. Those grounds were beautiful and well kept by the "Garden Gang" - it was a sanctuary in the middle of Portsmouth away from the craziness of the world.
Like you I came across this by accident. My mum and dad both worked there. As a kid I use to go in there with my mum. I actually found it very peaceful. I wonder if my mum and dad knew you?
You have the most amazing complexion! Is there a reason the people you bring along never speak?
Cut the wire on the alarm
regarding ur latest video, i think it was a good idea to close the comments section, it would have been filled with irrational hate
I noticed movement behind the door at the end of the corridor at 7'50,after you leave the room with the dandelions on the wall,maybe it was just a security guard,but has a creepy vibe to it.
I also saw, what looked like somebody or something whizz by the glass in the door at the end of the corridor but I think it was more just the camera angle.
Such a waste .of a a amazing historical building
I would highly recommend denbigh asylum in Wales well what's left off it there is still ways into it
Me gustaría que hagas la traducción en español de lo que hablas y explicas en tus videos, como otros youtubers.
I went to comment on the abandoned mansion video but comments are closed. I wonder what happened to the family and wouldn’t it be funny if they saw your video lol
When I was a teenager, my friends and I used to explore abandoned places, one of them being an asylum that was AWFUL where I grew up. They tortured patients there, it was a very scary place.
It’s the morgue my uncle worked in one.
I just watch this on top 10 ghost experience
Rather like the film "The Shining", was expecting a large wave of blood to come crashing down the corridors ! ! !
This was owed by Solent NHS Trust not Southern NHS Foundation
See your stickers in epsom surrey 🎉
Knowle?