Sep
16
Alla Italia – Belgium
A closed down Spa hotel in Belgium. The ceilings in this place is beautiful, unlike any other I have ever seen before.
Jul
22
Frenchay Hospital Morgue – Bristol
This Morgue is part of the main hospital. Click Here for pictures. I decided to give the morgue its own page. This place was incredible. Once we were inside you are faced with a corridor. At the end of the corridor is a door, on the door it reads “Post Mortem Room” we slowly opened this door and was amazed at the immaculate aluminium slabs we found and then in one of the back rooms we found the original slab. All with running water and electric. Around the back was the body fridges. Still on and working! bloody freezing they were!
We went to another room and found loads of records and samples from the decease. There were boxes of pacemakers with there original owners name on and various other things. In the last room we entered, we was faced with these bright yellow boxes with red lids. On the top it read: Anatomical waste. We were thinking, surely there isn’t anything inside? All the boxes were sealed apart from one, we opened the box and found various training aids.
Jul
22
Frenchay Hospital – Bristol
Frenchay Hospital is a large hospital situated in Frenchay, South Gloucestershire, on the north east outskirts of Bristol, England. It is part of theNorth Bristol NHS Trust.
From April to December 2014 Frenchay Hospital is being progressively closed, with the majority of services moving to a new building at Southmead Hospital. Accident and Emergency was transferred on 19 May 2014. A few services relating to brain and head injuries will remain at the site after December 2014.
The Morgue Pictures Click Here
History
The hospital, situated in the grounds of a Georgian mansion, Frenchay Park, started life as a TB hospital (Frenchay Park Sanatorium) in 1921, when Bristol Corporation acquired the land. In 1931, five purpose-built buildings were constructed to extend the hospital beyond the original house.
Concerns about the possibility of heavy bombing casualties led to the hospital being greatly expanded between 1938 and early 1942. Although Bristol was severely bombed, the new facilities remained unused.
When US forces arrived in 1942, the city handed the new hospital facilities over to the Americans, as a sort of reverse Lend-Lease. The initial units of the Medical Corps were the 2nd and 77th Evacuation Hospitals and the 152nd Station Hospital. Further expansion to the facilities including 27 wards, occurred in late 1942 and it was occupied by the 298th General Hospital. Initially, the Americans used the hospital mainly as training facility for their medical staff. After D-Day, however, the hospital was used in earnest, the processing of casualties becoming a very slick operation under the control of the 100th and then 117th General Hospitals. Casualties were flown into Filton or arrived by train from the channel ports. Between 5 August and 31 December 1944 a total of 4,954 patients were discharged from Frenchay.
Although the Frenchay Tuberculosis hospital operated as a separate unit throughout the war, the patients were transferred elsewhere in 1947.
After World War II, the Americans handed the hospital back to the Corporation. The National Health Service acquired the hospital in 1948.
Over the last 60 years or so, the hospital facilities have been slowly modernized, but many wartime buildings are still very much in evidence
May
23
Cemetery Of The Insane – Belgium
Tucked away in the middle of nowhere in Belgium is a cemetery which was exclusively used to bury patients from a nearby Asylum. Patients were buried here up until the cemetery was abandoned in the mid 1980s, with almost all the graves marked only with a simple concrete or wrought iron cross carrying a small plaque with the patient’s name, date of birth and date of death.
May
20
Villa Canon – Belgium
Such a beautiful villa. Amazing condition! located along a busy road and with an English car sticking out like a sore thumb we found our access. Really hot up in the loft bit but loads of stuff left behind by the owners. I would love to live in this house. Has a creepy looking soft cushion area up in the loft with lots of cuddly toys. It really does feel like the owners have just gone on holiday for a few weeks…… This was very different to your normal explore because of the condition. It sort of feels wrong.
May
20
Maison Rouf Rouf – Belgium
A Beautiful little house in Belgium somewhere. It is jam packed full of personal belongings. As if it was Christmas and they just got up and left. Even when you look at Google Streetview this place is in use with people outside. I think it has only closed recently and a prime example of what can be hidden behind closed doors in a little Belgium town. Its Christmas every time you visit this place!
May
20
Dr Genitals – Belgium
In a sleepy little town somewhere in Belgium is this little gem. It appears to be a doctor of eurology and like a lot of places in Belgium there surgery is also a home.
I think it has only been closed for a couple of years as the place is mint and untouched.
May
20
Lycée V – Belgium
Hello,
I couldn’t find an exact information on this, just that it use to be a girls School.
Such a beautiful building and slowly being reclaimed by mother nature. We had a surprise when we were inside by someone shouting hello through the letterbox. We left rather quickly and decided to move onto the next one!
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