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Recent News & Updates
Welcome to the New Look of TheTimeChamber...
The Asylum List - An update
Having just discovered that the Google Earth file can be overlaid onto Google maps, we have saved you the trouble of finding out how to do this and bunged a link up for you. We have also corrected a few mistakes and updated a few hospitals that have recently closed. Enjoy and find them here!
The Photography Section - A quick update...part #2
WE HAVE FINISHED THE REST!! Having not been happy with the rebuild of the photography album last time, and feeling that it had been a rush job, it was decided that it should be rebuilt again. Spending approximately five minutes longer than last time, the Landscape and Macro galleries have been improved...Check them out!
Catesby Tunnel, Northampton
For the first time in a long time, TTC decided to move away from the nuthouse and seek shelter within an abandoned railway tunnel. A 3km Tunnel. In the middle of no where. For a more serious history & photographs, Click Here
Three Counties Asylum, Stotfold
TheTimeChamber recently paid a snowy visit to the recently converted buildings of Fairfield Hospital with the kind permission of the Residents Association. Fairfield was built in 1859 and severed the community for 140 years before it finally closed. Read and see the photos here...
St Crispin Hospital, Northampton
Northampton has for many years sent their Paupers to the fee-paying General Asylum in Northampton, in 1870 they were ordered to build their own institution. The buildings were finally vacated in 1995 and have remained empty since, except for a minor conversion of one of the blocks. See the photos here...
Haywards Heath Asylum
East & West Sussex joined forces in 1854 to provide an Asylum for the Pauper Lunatics, over one hunder and fifty years later, the buildings have moved away from their psychiatric care and converted to residential housing, with little evidence of its former use. See the photos here...
Netherne Architectural Plans
Another rummage down the archives has revealed some interesting architects plans of Netherne Hospital drawn up back in 1907 before the construction of the Hospital. See them here!
The Epsom Cluster
Having taken a visit down to the local archives, TheTimeChamber is able to bring you a far more accurate history of the Epsom Cluster. Read it here...!
The Photography Section
Well, this was the section that was still under construction when the new site was built, and now, we have finally built it and crammed it with a number of photographs that we like! View them here...!