Heckingham Institution, Hales, December '09

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The Heckingham Institution for the Mentally Defective opened in 1765 as a workhouse for four hundred inmates. The H-shaped building included an infirmary "to serve as a hospital for the reception of such aged, sick or infirm persons and young children, as are not able to work", and a prison or "House of Correction for the punishing and keeping to hard labour such idle and disorderly persons who being able shall refuse to work or otherwise misbehave themselves". By 1835, the Heckingham workhouse had gained a reputation as being the most disorderly, inefficient and corrupt of the Norfolk Hundred workhouses.

In 1927, the workhouse was closed and the building converted into an institution for "mental defectives". After 1930, control passed to Norfolk County Council and the establishment was renamed Heckingham Institution. In 1948, it became part of the National Health Service as Hales Hospital which closed in around 1990.

I think this is the worst hospital I've explored, being bland, empty and trashed. Though this is probably as I explored it at night, during the day you might get some nice light cutting in around the boards. It was very scary as there were hundreds of ghost milling around just like a game of Silent Hill...
Visited with Skin and Dazzababes.







Scratch and sniff wallpaper


Kitchen top like you used to get in school







Had to edit the pics a lot as they're a bit gash.

[skin]

Here are some of my pics from this place

yes this is the hall!