Abandoned Hospital

In_out · 09 Mar 2014, 1:15 pm

Aye guys cheers for all the help with the bunzol factory went well and led to some great flicks... However this weekend or next I'm looking to go to the abandoned (r.f.) hospital has anyone got any tips or tricks to getting in and anything I should know? If anyone is interested on an explore shoot us a msg I guess

Bency · 09 Mar 2014, 7:05 pm

A good respirator might come in handy, looks pretty damaged since the last time I was there.

tonyrules · 09 Mar 2014, 7:36 pm

You have to climb in, no holes in the fence this time.

In_out · 09 Mar 2014, 9:22 pm

Ye ill be taking a respirator 100%, how high is fence? Not best at jumping fences

DeScent · 10 Apr 2014, 10:39 pm

Sounds very exciting!

Visual-Nirvana · 26 Sep 2014, 8:38 pm

Sad news - Rachel Forster has been demolished. Only ever visited it once, was definitely one of my favorite explores, really unfortunate I didn't go and re-visit it earlier.
http://www.altmedia.net.au/rachel-forst ... oped/71860
"It’s not adaptive re-use at all, it’s demolition..." I have had word from multiple sources that it has now been demolished.

In_out · 26 Oct 2014, 10:39 am

Yeh I was lucky to visit it but only once we'll worth it, photos can be seen on my flickr but yeh very unfortunate about the total demo

rbsx_ · 15 Feb 2015, 9:38 pm

Rachel Forster has not been destroyed.. I was there today and only the middle bit was gone. Still a good explore if you're keen enough

Visual-Nirvana · 16 Feb 2015, 10:03 pm

I had been told my a friend that half of one of the main buildings had been demolished - leaving half of a building, one of the most asbestos contaminated places i have ever seen just hanging there. Has that other half been demolished?

rbsx_ · 18 Feb 2015, 7:14 am

Visual-Nirvana wrote:I had been told my a friend that half of one of the main buildings had been demolished - leaving half of a building, one of the most asbestos contaminated places i have ever seen just hanging there. Has that other half been demolished?

I'd say there would be asbestos there, yes, and half a building is gone. However I walked straight across the demolished half and it was all just cement and bricks and rubble, nothing even remotely looking like asbestos.
Wouldn't they need to remove the asbestos before they began demolition?

daeman · 18 Feb 2015, 8:01 am

Rbsx, just remember that asbestos can come in multiple forms.
Yes, asbestos fibre sheeting (fibro) is one of the most common forms, but there quite a few other ways asbestos can come to be in a buildings.

Old linoleum (lino) floors contain asbestos and was the predecessor to vinyl flooring.

Corrugated fibre sheeting is fairly common and at first glance looks like dirty corrugated iron or fibreglass sheeting.

Places like hospitals, larger buildings and industrial sites used to use an insulating slag to cover steam and hot water pipes that contained asbestos.

Things relating to fire often used asbestos, such as flame doors, boilers and other stuff
Asbestos has also been used as insulation in homes and buildings. Google Mr fluffy and you'll find out more.

Essentially if a building is pre 1980s treat it like it has asbestos in it because it most likely will.

That said, asbestos is fairly safe in most of the above forms unless its disturbed.

sini · 20 Feb 2015, 5:56 am

asbestos was and probably still is the best insulator known to man - had so many uses, and if not deadly would still be used today. government buildings hospitals etc would use it where they could. take care. nasty stuff

Flame_ · 26 Jun 2015, 3:48 pm

So has anyone been to the hospital recently and can confirm it is demolished or is it still half standing?

confrownded · 02 Jul 2015, 4:16 am

Flame_ wrote:So has anyone been to the hospital recently and can confirm it is demolished or is it still half standing?

I was there a week and a half ago, the main part of the building in the centre of the lot was mostly gone but the wings either side were still there. There was a lot of construction going on but it was more quiet on the side where the buildings are still standing. Could probs still take some decent pictures

blakjak · 04 Jul 2015, 11:04 am

This is a pic of one of the wards at RF in 2003 before any demolition had began...

The guy in the blue overalls with tool in hand was a copper-stripper who we caught in the act, he stood back while we explored, then went straight back to his thieving.

Flame_ · 07 Jul 2015, 10:37 pm

confrownded wrote:
Flame_ wrote:So has anyone been to the hospital recently and can confirm it is demolished or is it still half standing?
I was there a week and a half ago, the main part of the building in the centre of the lot was mostly gone but the wings either side were still there. There was a lot of construction going on but it was more quiet on the side where the buildings are still standing. Could probs still take some decent pictures

Cheers, will keep it on my to do list then.

dodger · 08 Jul 2015, 10:21 am

blakjak wrote:This is a pic of one of the wards at RF in 2003 before any demolition had began...
The guy in the blue overalls with tool in hand was a copper-stripper who we caught in the act, he stood back while we explored, then went straight back to his thieving.

Wow, that's great! 12 years ago too!

blakjak · 08 Jul 2015, 12:07 pm

d0dg3r wrote:
blakjak wrote:This is a pic of one of the wards at RF in 2003 before any demolition had began...
The guy in the blue overalls with tool in hand was a copper-stripper who we caught in the act, he stood back while we explored, then went straight back to his thieving.
Wow, that's great! 12 years ago too!

It's my local. When I was a kid, I got stitches on my head at that hospital. Sad they let it rot like that.

sdogurbex · 15 Sep 2015, 2:07 pm

In_out wrote:Aye guys cheers for all the help with the bunzol factory went well and led to some great flicks... However this weekend or next I'm looking to go to the abandoned (r.f.) hospital has anyone got any tips or tricks to getting in and anything I should know? If anyone is interested on an explore shoot us a msg I guess

if this si the one in refern don't go near the front door the alarm will go off and if it does climb out the back into the train station

sdogurbex · 15 Sep 2015, 2:10 pm

In_out wrote:Ye ill be taking a respirator 100%, how high is fence? Not best at jumping fences

my friend is about 5 feet and he got up with no probs

phytrix · 04 Oct 2015, 10:25 am

Still explorable, be quick though, demolition is well underway! Keep a keen eye out, cops frequently do drive-bys and will enter the site if they see or hear of anything suspicious (torches, noises, call-in, etc.). Lights on in the bottom level and apparently there's an alarm (I didn't run into it, but I wouldn't be overly surprised if I missed it).