1,162 Comments for Cherry Knowle Hospital

I just read the "Overnight" intro here....what adventures you have behind these photos. We are grateful for what you go through to share with us these amazing shots.......

this place hold so many secrets.the world will be a lonely place without it.wot a shame

too sheff:

really? how long ago was this?

I pushed many a dead body on this trolly to the morgue

This looks typical of many of the wards.
I worked in this place for many years, and know it very very well, including the morgue. the morgue was a seperate building to this one.
most of these pictures do not this place justice. i spent many a nightshift convinced I'd seen several ghosts.
Also, my name is enscribed on the chapel wall and is still there since 1971.

i used to work at cherry knowle,we staff took it upon ourselves to visit whilst we were on nights,3 of us dodged the security guy and climbed through the window,4am,was this scary or what,we were bricking it.saw lots of stuff,such as old paper work,beautiful broken tiles,no ghosts though,doh.frightening but exciting.ran back to ward after around an hour,how lucky were we.

i went there today! we tried to walk straight up to it but some security guard stopped us....it didnt stop us thought haha! we drove round to the other end of the fields walked thru it to the back of the institute and clibed in through a window! it was immense! scarey though...later on in the night after i showed a few ppl they photos i took we went up again and it was really really bad we didnt even get out of the car and then a random man was in the bushes so we just drove off! anyways!!!

oh nooo it's over 9000!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJerOY0xqIw

hi love the site!!!! i have visited people at cherry over the years and had a peek in here myself happy that this has been captured on camera before it gets demolished x

You have no idea the thoughts and reflections that you have caused me to have after seeing your photos of "The Laurals" Cherry Knowle Hospital. I trained as a psychiatric nurse at this hospital and looking at your photos remined me of many staff and patients who walked these corridors. If filled me with great sadness to see its state, but things have moved on. It is easy to look back in judgement of the past and fail to see the great goodness that was given and recieved in these places in times gone by. Many thanks for the opportunity to look around the Laurals.

I really HATE PEOPLE that do Grafitti. Only if they had more respect for these place's. Every place has so much priceless $. It's a shame to see Grafitti. But it is such a nice pic. U do such a good job takeing all your pic's.

Interesting paint job....

I never promised you a rose garden....

They mummy wrapped patients and strapped them to tables just like this one...

My understanding is that there was a time when England was big on mechanical restraints - more so then even in the U.S.

I would assume the wall with the most decay is an outside wall...

just a hunch

Weird - i used to go swimming there when I was a kid