PICTURES: Inside the chilling remains of an abandoned mental asylum
THESE haunting photos show the collapsing remains of a derelict mental asylum.
The pictures show the ruined former hospital building and chapel, now covered in dust and graffiti
The pictures show the ruined former hospital building and chapel, which are now covered in dust and graffiti.
Few signs remain that reveal the site as a former home of mentally ill adults and children.
There is only one medical bed, and one bathroom with three broken stalls.
One of the rooms at the abandoned aslyum
One of the bathrooms at the abandoned mental asylum
A view of the staircase inside the abandoned asylum
Outside, a single tractor tyre from the asylum's farm site lies across an almost-hidden path that used to lead to the entrance.
Photographer Simon Robson visited Rauceby to explore and snap the hospital's eerie remains.
Lincolnshire's Rauceby Asylum was founded in 1897 and served primarily as a mental hospital for over a century, finally closing its doors in 1998.
During the Second World War, it also served as a crash and burns unit for nearby RAF Cranwell.
In 2004, part of the site and the surrounding area was bought by a developer, which turned it into a residential area now knowns as Greylees.