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Cane Hill Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Surrey was opened in 1882 in and held up to around 2000 patients when in it’s prime. It was almost a self sustaining community for the mentally ill. They farmed their own produce and even had their own water tower.

The asylum finally closed in 1991 as the mental health NHS in the United Kingdom changed it’s policy towards a new era of care in the community where more and more patients are now being cared for in their own homes or in residential supported accommodation. Cane Hill has since become derelict and much has sadly now been demolished during 2008, although the administration building and the chapel are listed buildings and are therefore protected. The water tower will probably remain as it’s a local landmark, but this isn’t guaranteed.

So many unspeakable acts went on here along with so much intolerable suffering throughout well over a century of so called care for the mentally ill. This makes Cane Hill a likely location for tortured souls that may continue to haunt the location for hundreds of years to come.

Watch an amazing video by Birmingham Investigators of the Unknown or BirminghamIU which includes some footage not found anywhere else as it’s been put together to include private photos that are copyrighted by BirminghamIU along with some interesting clips that are publicly available. The atmospheric video tries to capture the horror of what it must have been like to be a resident in a mental institution years ago along with photographs and videos of what it what it looked like after being abandoned. When it was abandoned the building was suddenly left as it was to decay. Much of the furniture, machinery and even patient records were still there.

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