My husband went to school near Cane Hill in the 1960s. The nearby rail service was sometimes interrupted due to patient suicides from that terrible place. Officially it was said to be a good hospital, and surface investigations indicate that few, if any, patients ended their lives under a train, but local knowledge of the time reported otherwise, and Coulsdon South Station was certainly the location of some deaths. It was an ugly, awesome place.
@@MartinsGraveyard That's one of the stories we were aware of.... I expect Cane Hill was no better and no worse than many of the other big Victorian institutions of the age. There are good reports and horror stories about most of them - it's been an interest of mine for years, just a shame so few are left to explore.
@@seasmacfarlane6418 When I think about this place, demolished for an ugly housing, a perfect example of a Kirkbride architecture, I wan't to weep and howl. The same fate met the fantastic Danvers State Hospital in the US. Shame on them all for letting this end like that. Don't even get me started on West Park and the other hospitals from the Epsom Cluster.
@@MartinsGraveyardHow right you are, West Park was a gem. It wasn't just the mental institutions either - the old Queen Mary and Saint Mary hospitals in East London and the Herbert Military near Shooters Hill, were beautiful inside ... the ward walls were decorated with picture tiles (I was a patient there and saw them) but they were just demolished... no attempt to salvage all that fabulous tiled art. I thought High Royds had some gems too. Also much appreciated Hine, some of his were well worth seeing. So much architectural genius just ......... destroyed. For Stepford houses. Even the parts that have been kept are ruined by the surrounding development.
@@MartinsGraveyard true story. Bowie visited Terry Jones when he was in London weekly. He really loved Terry. He'd take him cigarettes etc. Charlie Chaplin's mother was also a patient. Cain Hill is on an alternative cover of The Man Who Sold The World LP.
Great stuff. Remember as a floor cleaner and giving Rothman Royals to Terry Burns as I cleaned the main corridor. RIP Terry. One day he was fit as a fiddle, in fine fettle and fit as a butcher's dog and the next day completely unrecognizable. It's a very mad world.
Was demolished about 15 years ago now. And most the vids and pictures he’s got are another 10 years old again as by the time it was demolished it has basically no ceilings left and caught fire
My Dad was a charge nurse there. Left in 1983 as he saw the decline of the hospital looming. He had many stories to tell
My husband went to school near Cane Hill in the 1960s. The nearby rail service was sometimes interrupted due to patient suicides from that terrible place. Officially it was said to be a good hospital, and surface investigations indicate that few, if any, patients ended their lives under a train, but local knowledge of the time reported otherwise, and Coulsdon South Station was certainly the location of some deaths. It was an ugly, awesome place.
They say that the brother of David Bowie escaped from there and ended his life on those tracks.
@@MartinsGraveyard That's one of the stories we were aware of.... I expect Cane Hill was no better and no worse than many of the other big Victorian institutions of the age. There are good reports and horror stories about most of them - it's been an interest of mine for years, just a shame so few are left to explore.
@@seasmacfarlane6418 When I think about this place, demolished for an ugly housing, a perfect example of a Kirkbride architecture, I wan't to weep and howl. The same fate met the fantastic Danvers State Hospital in the US. Shame on them all for letting this end like that. Don't even get me started on West Park and the other hospitals from the Epsom Cluster.
@@MartinsGraveyardHow right you are, West Park was a gem. It wasn't just the mental institutions either - the old Queen Mary and Saint Mary hospitals in East London and the Herbert Military near Shooters Hill, were beautiful inside ... the ward walls were decorated with picture tiles (I was a patient there and saw them) but they were just demolished... no attempt to salvage all that fabulous tiled art. I thought High Royds had some gems too. Also much appreciated Hine, some of his were well worth seeing. So much architectural genius just ......... destroyed. For Stepford houses. Even the parts that have been kept are ruined by the surrounding development.
@@MartinsGraveyard true story. Bowie visited Terry Jones when he was in London weekly. He really loved Terry.
He'd take him cigarettes etc. Charlie Chaplin's mother was also a patient. Cain Hill is on an alternative cover of The Man Who Sold The World LP.
i was a pupil at the local primary school, Smitham. The school used to take us on day trips to the hospital to visit the patients.
Cool. Any stories?
Great stuff. Remember as a floor cleaner and giving Rothman Royals to Terry Burns as I cleaned the main corridor. RIP Terry. One day he was fit as a fiddle, in fine fettle and fit as a butcher's dog and the next day completely unrecognizable. It's a very mad world.
Hospitalized for some of them diagnosis back then.....Jesus, I'd be fuked lol
Beautiful Donnie Darko. Well done Mental Martin. Beautiful memories of working there.
Cool. What year did you work there and on what position?
@@MartinsGraveyard 1980 as a floor cleaner.
I hope you did an EVP session!!! I would love to hear what they might have to tell…
Nope but I did an 'APM' session instead when I spend the night there alone (almost peed myself).
i worked there and was stoned all the time.
Oh wow! Does it still stand? Why is it left like that?
It's demolished and turned into an ugly apartment complex.
Was demolished about 15 years ago now. And most the vids and pictures he’s got are another 10 years old again as by the time it was demolished it has basically no ceilings left and caught fire
Now we have "care in the community" meaning the vulnerable are left to fend for themselves.
Seeing mental ilness as chemical imbalance and the advent of SSRIs changed everything. The roots of the problems remain unsolved though.
I was not so keen on the place lol I was in the new building for a year when I was 17
Has this been demolished ?
Unfortunately yes. Leveled and converted into ugly apartments.