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Fairmile Asylum

Fairmile Asylum is the only asylum where CH Howell and GT Hine came together to design an asylum together.

openedin 1870 and closed in March 2003 Fairmile Asylum held up to 1400 patients.

Wow what a day. Visited with The Riddlers and Little Elvis.

We arrived in the morning and made our way onto the grounds to be confronted by an amazing array of buildings, mixing the new with the old and mixing the building designs of Hine and Howell together in harmony.

Then the white van appeared and we bolted, only to return and scout around the perimiter fence to find cctv covering the whole grounds, so after watching it and working out where they were facing at what time(the cameras move on a 360 axis) we found a window of 10 seconds and we were inside the fence. Found an entrance through a window and went in. After taking in the fact that we were the first people in there in 20 years apart from possibly security we started to explore. For some reason the rooms were painted in crazy colours which shocked us.

Off to the main hall which from outside looked amazing however inside was a bit too modern for my liking but was still stunning. Here we took the time to congratulate ourselves for getting in there.

Heading upstairs we made our way through the wards then we found the clock tower. Up we went only to find a load of asbestos and an electrical clock mechanism.

We then headed back through the corridoors and into the nicest ward I have ever seen with amazing wooden paneling however we were then greeted by a loudspeaker which informed us :

"Please stay where you are, security has been called and will be there shortly, please remain where you are"

So we stayed there..... like fuck we did we bolted so fast with me being thrown out the window first and the other two following. We decided to leave fairmile for this time and return later to do the rest. so there will be an update. Please excuse the quality of photos as you can imagine I did not have time to set the photos up properly.

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