cane hill | the strange case of the mysterious basement
08|08

We forced our way around the recalcitrant door and found ourselves in a large, dark featureless room. Like most of Cane Hill, mouldy old furniture remained with a large table along the length of the room, chairs along the other and coat hooks above.

We’d found a changing room, a room where patients, staff and visitors could prepare before appearing on the stage. I’d long assumed the changing room had been lost in the fire, presuming it was located under the former stage itself. But I didn’t expect it to be a subterranean room situated under the corridor network.


Northwestern view of the changing room under corridor C15. © Simon Cornwell 2008