We arrive and go via our usual route. Reports recently suggest West Park is like a swiss cheese at the moment. After our epic fail @ Hellingly we figure that more local would be better to do.
Indeed there are loads of doors open and we manage to go inside various buildings, some of which we don't know the names of. Urbex Peg leads the way, she had a whale of a time. Especially when she discovered the dead cat in the Mortuary building.
So we do the outside again and whilst happy with what we managed to get into we crave getting past the spikey topped security fence. Absolutely no sign of security, MC Hammer has left the building for good aparently and it is open and a free for all if you can find your way in.
So there we are wondering how the hell you get past the fence and into the heart of the building when, call it fate, I spot something. Can't possibly mention what it was, but it was a great find. And in we go....
Once you're in the corrdoors then there should be no problems getting to the wards within the heart of the Hospital. The place is so very similar for the four wards that we done and very, very disorientating. We could have also done with a torch for the ground floors.
The floors are dodgy as hell in some places, the worst was encountering the 'drop of death'. You know not to enter a room until you have sussed out the floor and seen if it's safe, so I get to a room, look down and see a 6 foot plus drop into an unknown black abyss. Talk about crap yourself for a moment or two. We went down a staircase and at the bottom the only way out was the 'drop of death' or back where we came from. If a room does look safe then a firm foot on the floor with one ;eft outside the door will give you an idea on how safe it is. Any visible holes or sagging and 'its no way Brian May'.
Most rooms you can walk accross and round but the floors feel kind of spongy. Common sense in our case deduces if there is a hospital bed still on the floor then it can't be that bad as they are heavy things. But still be very careful. Keep to the beams if you can.
Before we entered the heart of the place we poked our noses into the Mortuary. Not a lot left of it now, no slab. Believe someone might have nicked it or smashed it to fuck. Find the body fridges. Excellent. Spot a giant dead rat. Not so excellent. The room off off where the fridges are looks like a school science lab in a gone wrong explosion. Stuff everywhere, another massive dead rat and Urbex Peg discovers a dead cat. Well we assume it's the decaying/mummified body of a dead cat. Peg rubs herself on it. Lovely.
Perhaps it's the body of some West Park freaky creature unknown to man!! We cover it with a box to stop Urbex Peg from further investigation.
The worktop is covered with boxes and a rack/drawer of slides with names written on them. Going by what I have seen @ Atkinson Morley, these are probably slides of brain matter.
Freaky!!
Anyways back to the main part, the heart now we are in it....abandoned isn't the word. Find clothes hanging in a wardrobe [although my buddy thinks they were too fresh to be part of the history but who on earth would wear what we found in this day and age?].
The whole place was just literally abandoned. No packing done, nothing put away, not even food [bottle of Daddies Sauce gone green] just like everyone was shipped out on one day and no one ever returned.
We search for the elusive Padded Cell using the info I was previously given. Seems the info was wrong as i've had 3 people now tell me where it really is and all match.
Was it spooky? Not really. Some bits were creepy-ish but I felt at home there and very calm apart from having to be so very quiet wandering round.
Fave find? Probably the pateint notes i've put on the pics. What an insight to what went on @ West Park. Albeit a small insight. I'm sure there is more to see and I know for sure there is so much more to see and doscover.
Why couldn't we have found the way when we first arrived?
And if anyone is wondering what you do when you need a wee when exploring you have a choice...wee behind a bush or use an un-trashed toilet lik me buddy did. Note to yourselves, always take a bog roll.
Other kit to take is a small first aid kit. Haven't yet had to use ours but it's handy should the need arise. Hand gel for washing hands or baby wipes. Dust masks, tut tut didn't use them yesterday but will in future, nowt worse than the taste of dust plus some protection against whatevers floating round in the dust. And a torch. We needed a torch. And so we will return. With a torch, and a portable potty for my weak bladder LOL.
As always the rest of the pics can be found @ http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v89/AnthillMob/West%20Park%20240909/
