Creative Midlands Heritage

Guest hospital, Dudley
Thors Cave (Manifold Valley)
Biddulph Grange Cave
Cave at cheshire view

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 11:01 AM PDT

July 2008

I really can't believe its been that long! Remember the summer of 2008? Think its the last decent one we had actually... anyway back in a time when I had a lowly 400D that, to be honest, I didn't know one end of from the other or have a clue about apertures, depth of field, focusing points or the relationship between them (some may even argue that I still don't), I was lucky enough to have a mooch round here only a few months after its closure... roll the clock forward four years and I received a request for some high res versions of some of the pictures only to find that I didn't keep them, all I'd got was the unedited (back then I hadn't discovered the benefits of shooting in RAW) jpegs as they came straight out of the camera, so this morning I dug them out and wondered what they would look like four years later using better software and a better understanding... here is some of the results and some previously unseen ones amongst them that I've managed to save and pull back from the bin...

one of the first sights that took my breath away, the boardroom and this table (apparently a local firm were after it and offered thousands)

corridor around the nurses quarters (I think)

staff rest room

looking out of the window in the corridor above into patients garden

the patients garden, unfortunately the doors were locked

corridor looking up from A & E I think

corridor leading up to the top floor (which I believe had been closed for a while prior to the hospitals closure as the floor was rotten and unsafe)

second floor ward

some sort of female ward

operating theatre that I'm sure was attached to the above ward and is the one that was in most haunted

looking up the main staircase from half way up

some randoms that I can't remember exactly where they were but they were within the old original main building

this was in the first ward pictured a bit further up

god knows what this is but it was still full of slides

water tower (inside pics here- http://www.midlandsheritage.co.uk/mi...tal-tower.html)

finally it was starting to go dark, so we left it at that..

Thors Cave (Manifold Valley)

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:30 AM PDT

Thors Cave is located in manifold valley close to Wetton theres a car park and a footpath leading from here to the Cave lots of discoveries were found Excavations in 1864–1865 and 1927–1935 found human and animal remains, stone tools, pottery, amber beads, and bronze items within Thor's Cave and the adjacent Thor's Fissure Cavern. The caves are estimated to have contained the burial sites of at least seven people