02/10/2025
Broadmoor Hospital.
This place was something else one of the oldest high security psychiatric hospitals in the uk .
So after talking with my mate the next day we set off baring in mind, this place was a mission to get in to with 20 ft plus walls to get over and cctv all over the grounds with 2 ladders tied together 🤣.
We made it to the top of the wall and I thought to myself what I’m I actually doing?. It started chucking it down while we were sat on the massive wall deciding how we were gonna get down, as the other side was more tricky. anyway we finally made it over the wall and we were walking around trying to find an open door, we finally found a door and we went in, we spent about 4 - 5 hours here, and what a place it was. The chapel was in pristine condition considering it’s not been used in a few years, but sadly the rest of the building was falling apart with damp setting in certain areas and one part had been completely burnt out and all that remained was a shell.
I can see why people think it’s a prison because of the high walls and the level of security on the site but it’s classed as a hospital, even though a few people that have been deemed unsafe in prisons have been sent here and some never saw past the 20 foot wall again.
It was eerie in areas but a proper vibe walking through this building, knowing the sort of people and things that had happened within the building just added to it.
There is a 2-part video on our YouTube channel.
A bit of history on the place
The hospital was first known as the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Completed in 1863
The first patient was a female admitted for infanticide on 27 May 1863.
The first male patients arrived on 27 February 1864. The original building plan of five blocks (four for men and one for women) was completed in 1868. An additional male block was built in 1902
During the First World War, Broadmoor's block 1 was also used as a Prisoner-of-war camp, called Crowthorne War Hospital, for mentally ill German soldiers. After the escape in 1952 of John Straffen, who murdered a local child, the hospital set up an alarm system, which was activated to alert people in the vicinity, as well as the public including those in the surrounding towns of Sandhurst, Wokingham, Bracknell, Camberley and Bagshot, when any potentially dangerous patient escapes. In 2003, the Commission for Healthcare Improvement declared the Victorian buildings at Broadmoor Hospital 'unfit for purpose'.
They made a new and modern site next door, and this site has been sat since
There have been some well-known people who have been inside here, including people like:
Peter Sutcliffe
Ian Ball
Ronnie Kray
Robert Napper
Charles Bronson
James Kelly
And many others.
