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Built in the 1940’s to house victims of World War 2, St. Peters Mortuary is a small rectangular building located in a quiet corner of the main hospital site. The mortuary closed during 2009 after it was decided that the building was too small to cope with the increase of cadavers.
St. Peters Mortuary…
Visit Date: April 2013
Despite the front of the building looking like it’s in a good condition, the roof is collapsing in places, almost every room is suffering from water damage as a result of the fridges leaking and there is now a small amount of graffiti working its way inside.
We’ve known about St. Peters Mortuary for some time but put off a trip back in 2012 after it hit the urban exploring forums and everybody including their dog went to visit. We thought we had missed our chance after the building was sealed once again but thankfully, the dereliction gods had given us another.
St. Peters Mortuary was a strange place to visit. After all, unless you work at one, you don’t normally get inside unless your dead! We expected it to be silent inside but there was a constant sound of dripping water, vehicles and voices outside and every now and then something would hit the security window shutters.
The smell inside was unbelievable! Sure you would expect a mortuary to smell pretty
bad anyway but this was the smell of damp and rot setting in fully -
We don’t know what the future will hold for this abandoned mortuary but we do know that since our last visit, the site has suffered from a significant amount of vandalism and damage. Whilst we believe the morgue is now secure, it probably won’t be long until it’s reopened and damaged further.
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