Seething Wells Halls

Seething Wells Halls in Surbiton, London, UK, was originally a mental hospital in 1813. It had two main blocks, the first which was known as "block X" held class A patients. The second was known as "block B" held both class B and C patients.
Block X was renowned for its high class prison state in which around 60 patients were kept tied down to their bed in one hall. Block B was less secure which allowed its patients to walk around freely until night time, where they would be restrained in similar fashion to those in block X. Most patients in Block X suffered from Mental disorder and many more. Murderers where also held if they were seen as having a mental illness.
Seething Wells is now a student halls of residence, the current blocks that students live in are were old residents of Seething Wells Mental hospital used to live. They are not in their original state after rejuvenation, however they do have the original foundations. Block X and Block B however are intact after plans to convert them were not passed. Kingston University are still trying to get permission to start work on converting them into another set of halls which would hold up to 60 students.
There has been 78 suicides at the Hospital on site, one of the most famous ones was a man called Oliver Tierny, who had chronic schizophrenia whom climbed to the top of block X and jumped off impaling himself on a fence, his body was not found until the next morning. Security was tightened after the event in order to minimize the chance of a repeat.
A Nurse was also murdered in the Hospital Grounds, and was buried there as requested by the family as a memoriam to the love she had for her work. Her body is now buried in the local Surbiton Church grounds after the conversion to Student Halls was passed. The Nurse was murdered by a Thomas Griffins who was originally in Block B before being moved to Block X shortly after the Incident. He murdered her by slighting her throat using a sharpened piece of stone when she was on her evening rounds. Her body was found later on in Thomas Griffins' bed next to him.
Seething Wells Halls of Residence for students now consists of 27 "blocks" in the formation of A-Z. Each bock has three floors with two shares on each floor with up to six rooms and one kitchen. It is located right on the river front, Portsmouth Road and is seen to be one of the better campus' of Kingston University. Students have 24-hour access which enables them to leave and come back any time they wish. Seething Wells Halls of Residence is not catered like Kingston Hill Bridge which means students have to prepare their own food.

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