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Kaz
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 Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:30 pm Post subject: Your Ideal Ghost Hunt Location? |
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I was wondering where your ideal ghost hunt would be.
One of mine would be at an old shut down mental asylum in Coulsdon Surrey called Cain Hill. I believe the building still stands but hasn't been in use for some time.
I would love to have a nose around! |
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Solstice Moon
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:35 pm Post subject: Re: Your Ideal Ghost Hunt Location? |
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| Kaz wrote: | I was wondering where your ideal ghost hunt would be.
One of mine would be at an old shut down mental asylum in Coulsdon Surrey called Cain Hill. I believe the building still stands but hasn't been in use for some time.
I would love to have a nose around! |
I'd love to go back to the old WW1 airfield at Flambards farm, Stow maries. I'd say the best haunts are the little known ones usually, however would also be fascinated by the Imperial War Museum, London (formerly Bedlam asylum) |
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Kaz
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Is that the same War Museum which is near Elephant and Castle? |
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Solstice Moon
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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That's the one, with two old WW1 15" guns outside.
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Kaz
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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OMG! I visited that place a while back, now listen to this...
While I was in there I felt very strange, morbid even and put it down to the items of war bits and bobs that were on display. I just felt that there was 'other people' around!
This is so bizarre, I didn't know it had been an asylum! I am sooooo going to Google it. |
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damaralenoire
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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| i WOLD LOVE TO DO A PROPER NIGHT TIME VIGIL AT TINTERN ABBEY. DONE IT OUTSIDE THE GROUNDS BUT NOT INSIDE THE GROUNDS. GOT TO BE DONE. |
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Solstice Moon
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| damaralenoire wrote: | | i WOLD LOVE TO DO A PROPER NIGHT TIME VIGIL AT TINTERN ABBEY. DONE IT OUTSIDE THE GROUNDS BUT NOT INSIDE THE GROUNDS. GOT TO BE DONE. |
Always find old Abbeys have a lovely calm atmosphere. Would definitely fancy that myself.
Kaz, it could also be the exhibits. If a building can hold a residual, then so can an object.
You may have noticed this exhibit, or you may not. Hardly stands out does it? Well, it's the 5.5" gun from HMS chester. On 31st May 1916 a 16 year old boy died of wounds received after an engagement with german cruisers. In spite of the gun crew being wiped out the lad, Jack Cornwall, stayed at his post, and continued setting the guns sites. He was awarded a posthumous VC |
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Kaz
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I actually put my feelings down to the displays. It was just an eerie feeling, even now I can remember and get a sense of that feeling. |
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andyw
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| Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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KAZ
I used to be a medical Rep in the 80's and one of my weekly calls was at Cane Hill Hospital!! How spooky  It was a weird place but mostly because of the patients. Isn't there another Mental hospital on the other side of the vally, begins with N, can't remember the name.
Nethern Hospital! thats it. Suposed to be worse than Cane Hill as in 'difficult' patients! |
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andyw
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More info on Cane Hillfrom someone on the net - not me!:
Cane Hill MSU is situated very close to where I used to live in Coulsdon with my mother and my brother. I was, and still am aware that it's there and open and I know that there used to be a far larger complex open there because you can see the Water Tower of this complex for miles away, including the hill that we three lived on. I knew that this complex had been closed in the late 80s/early 90s and that it has become a frequent target for arson and vandalism, in one case requiring more than 40 Fire Engines and 6 hours (notable for cutting power to a transmitter on top of the water tower and stopping some poor souls from recieving BBC2 for a time) to extinguish the inferno released by some mindless idiots that I'm almost certain I knew through my estate or school.
A couple of years ago after some weird link following I found a history of Cane Hill Hospital as it was until 1992 (when the main site was closed). It turns out it was built in 1882 and is the reason that there is so much green space around Coulsdon - large amounts were granted in perpetuity because of the Hospital. It was, at its peak, a 2,500 bed Mental Hospital and is on a massive site. It has housed the relatives of many celebrities, including the mother of Charlie Chaplin, the half-brother of Michael Caine, and the brother of David Bowie (who committed suicide on the tracks at Coulsdon South station). I didn't realise how much of it the little gits had destroyed with fire or how beautiful the chapel there is.
Great You Tube Vid
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nZhElepCBCw |
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Kaz
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| Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the info Andy. The other hospital you just mentioned, my mum spoke of that to me yesterday but to be honest I had never heard of it.
Just diverting a little, did you know that there used to be gallows at Thornton Heath Pond? Just down the road from Croydon.
I wonder if there is any ghostly activity around there! |
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andyw
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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Nethern is a housing estate so i understand and apparently has hauntins but i don't know any more info.
Thornton Heath ponds as far as i know has no ghosties as far as i'm aware. There are no ponds anymore, it's just a funny shaped roundabout.
Not sure whats happening with Cane Hill as apparently there has been alot of protest in the re developement.
Dorking got a 2 page spread in the local paper apparently the other week. Lots going on there!!!! Some of the police i work with have seen a couple of regular ghosts!
I should have been a historian.  |
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Kaz
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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Ghosts/history? Same difference really  |
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andyw
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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He he, yep i supose it is!! 
Where in Surrey are you? |
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Kaz
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:10 am Post subject: |
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| I'm near Wallington. |
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