west park hospital: Links

Abandoned hospital sites in Epsom are treasure trove for urban explorers

from Jan 2010

www: http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/epsom/4881538.Abandoned_hospital_sites_are_treasure_trove_for_urban_explorers/

Flickr photos of west park asylum

A group for people to add there photos of the west park complex

www: http://www.flickr.com/groups/965275@N23/

Ghosts in the asylum

A website for a group that has been doing a spot of ghost hunting

www: http://howhauntedghosthunters.co.uk/westpark-asylum.php

History of the madhouse film from the bbc

You got to watch this if you enjoy abandoned asylums

Documentary which tells the fascinating and poignant story of the closure of Britain's mental asylums. In the post-war period, 150,000 people were hidden away in 120 of these vast Victorian institutions all across the country. Today, most mental patients, or service users as they are now called, live out in the community and the asylums have all but disappeared. Through powerful testimonies from patients, nurses and doctors, the film explores this seismic revolution and what it tells us about society's changing attitudes to mental illness over the last sixty years.

www: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sfpvf/Mental_A_History_of_the_Madhouse/