Severalls Asylum

Photos - 82.
Where - Colchester, Essex.
Visited - 2 September 2006.
Posted - 3 September 2006.
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Severalls Asylum was built in 1913. It closed in the late 1990s. In it's heyday it housed 2000 patients; some of which were used in experimental medical tests/operations.

Recently it has been sold for redevelopment. Apparently the whole site is to be demolished. I thought I should go for a quick (4 hour) look...

Outside

Some shots of the buildings.

Water Tower

There is a huge water tower here. We bumped into two other explorers there.

The view from the top gives a wonderful view of the whole site.

Panorama severalls

It was pretty interesting inside too.

Engineering

Around the water tower is the engineering areas. One of the buildings has some huge boilers in. There used to be five of them apparently, but they're gradually being dismantled.

Kitchen

The kitchen was huge. It had to be - it used to cater for 2000 residents...

Stores

These were used to store things. Obviously.

Sterilising Machines

In one room we found three huge sterilisation machines. They were last inspected in 1989.

Corridors

There is an intricate network of corridors in the asylum. They're all different colours, and some are quite long. The corridors are also rather eerie - the wind banging doors constantly makes you think that someone's going to jump out at you at any point.

Main Hall

I was too late for this one. The main hall was demolished a couple of months ago - it was badly fire damaged and unsafe.

Medical Things

Being a hospital, there are places to do operations, examine X-rays, get drugs, perform dentistry and look at patients.

There is also a morgue. Somewhere.

Toilets etc

There was quite an assortment of different toilets here.

And sinks etc.

Random rooms

Not sure what to say about this bit - just random rooms.

Final bits

And here are a few photos of other things that don't quite fit in with the above.

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  1. Posted 5 September 2006, 09:50 From Canehill25

    Very nice pictures mate!!!

  2. Posted 5 September 2006, 16:50 From Speed

    Loving the Metal Polish tin pic!

  3. Posted 2 December 2006, 18:20 From moonwatcher2628

    great pics mate,i used to work on this site many years a go now,shame to see it in this state.

    dave

  4. Posted 15 April 2007, 01:20 From Antony

    Hello

    Great site, very moving pics...I was there today ( saturday 14th 2007 ) with a friend and we shot around 150 pictures in and around the buildings...we never found thye chapel or the morgue though ( did you notice the big pile of door knobs !? weird ). Just one thing though....how did you get through the fences ? We managed to squeeze through a section that had been jammed by a rock...but we only just managed it...is that the easiest way to get in ?? I'll send you some pics once I have converted them from raw if you like ?

    Antony

  5. Posted 30 April 2007, 15:30 From sparkmouse

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    oh these have been stripped now haven't they? such a shame they are awesome.

  6. Posted 21 May 2007, 14:20 From joely

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    hiya this website is brill, me and friend want to go and seee severals for ourselves have u been in there recently?? how did you get in? thanks joely

  7. Posted 2 September 2007, 16:10 From Cammie

    this is a brilliant site hun! Really well thought out and fun to go through and your photos are brilliant!

    I love Urbex, but being a married mum whose also trying for another baby, it's not wise for me to physically go on any urbex expeditions anymore, so this is the next best thing, so thanks for sharing ~ just make sure you keep safe xx

  8. Posted 8 October 2007, 15:00 From Brad

    We're planning an exploration to this site this coming week - 13/10/2007

    Looks like a fantastic place to explore. We're all practitioners of Parkour, so we should get some fantastic shots.

    -Brad

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