chilimissy's experience @ Sunnyside Asylum

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side facing the roadcornerroom through the hole in the boardfrount of builingopen windowup the topreason we didnt enterthe backthe back againtop backpower boxthe whole frontthe whole front againfountain still had running waterfountain againagain fountainthe bridge over old pondold pondwooden bridge bridge againbirdhousethe side as we were leaving

my very 1st experience. we had to be uber careful here, as there is fully functioning mental hospital around the area where sunnyside asylum used to be, and where sunnyside used to be there is land leveling and construction going on we climbed under the wire construction fence and went over to the only building that is left. it is all boarded up with “keep out, deadly asbestos” written on the boards all over the place. so we didn’t even try and get in. there is one open window, it is on the second level and not very accessible. right so, we wondered around the building taking photos. there was a hole in one of the boards so u put my camera into it and got the room ont he other side. then i spied a old fountain took photos of that, found a bridge over what used to be a pond, now full of weeds and flowers and a birdhouse up in a tree. under the cover of the trees we tried to see if there was anything else at all, but all we found was markings of where the pathways used to be. so we left the way we came in. a few days later someone who used to work there told me she thinks this building is the old morgue, which also had offices in it. it was a part of a much larger building, but i actually doubt it was a morgue. but we may try and actually get in at some point soon through that open window, when we get some dust masks.

  • Dirtyfilthy (about 1 year ago) 
    Did I read somewhere that this building is actually the morgue?
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  • Chilimissy (about 1 year ago) 
    some girl on a lj community seemed to know a lot about sunnyside and she
thinks its the morgue, she’s not sure. i don’t know, from the old
photos i saw this building was the part of a much larger building and in the
middle of the hospital, morgues tend to be on the out skirts of hospitals such
as these, so i actualy doubt it is.
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  • Rob (about 1 year ago) 
    And now this is being torn down too – due to ngai tahu not giving two
fucks about historical buildings. Bloody maoris!
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  • Covert_one (4 months ago) 
    Lol, it is rather gay it’s been demolished. It was the administration
part of the building, not the morgue. This was one of the first places we really
explored so i researched the shit out of it lol. So it was only where the
vistors came and signed in etc, which was a bit of a downer that no real
interesting shit wouldve happened there :( we all had respitory masks and stuff
cuz i don’t fuck with asbestos lol. we went to every room in the place,
but there was no real interesting stuff, the bathroom was pretty sweet though.
since we’d never broken into anything we all had some liquid courage in us
in the form of vodka. fear of asbestos, homeless crazies and ghosts really
sobers a guy up. we thought we were hell hardcore lol. then my girlfriend at the
time informed me that a shitload of people from hillmorton high go there to get
stoned etc at lunch, real casual like… sort of made our attempts seem
rather over the top. bastards :P
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    • Rob (4 months ago) 
      i still remember how it looked before demolition started.. really awesome
building, like something out of a horror movie. must’ve been back in
2000-2001 iirc. its totally fucking gay that such an impressive and historical
building gets bulldozed just so ngai tahu can make a few more bucks by turning
it into a suburban wasteland. imagine the shitfest that would occur if a white
guy tried to pull something similar with a site that had significance to
maori.
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  • Covert_one (4 months ago) 
    lol, yeah. I had read that a guy tryed to buy it so he could turn it into a
nightclub. a weird fucking idea, but better than complete demolition.
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