Split hexagon and compressor room under one

and compressor room under one roof

and operated as group lodging until 2006 before being left without an operator

light pressing through grimy windows onto equipment left where it last ran

A working instrument from 27 years of government service

from 1930 until December 1962

Split hexagon and compressor room under onePeeling paint splits the wall of a derelict ward inside the former Lewisham Hospital, Convent and Grounds. The Little Company of Mary opened the hospital in 1889 and ran it for nearly a century before vacating the site in 1986. What remains is a building in the process of coming apart, layer by layer. Part of the Lewisham Hospital series.