Visited with a Mr Badbatz and bumped in to acid reflux while we were outside and he were up in the tower. Cheers to him and Mr Jst for some pointers etc etc.
We didn't fancy the hospital and arrived just for this small but charming out building. A lot of damage has been caused by the local Wakey chavs and evidence of damage from splorers too.
We didn't fancy the hospital and arrived just for this small but charming out building. A lot of damage has been caused by the local Wakey chavs and evidence of damage from splorers too.
Clayton Hospital is named after Thomas Clayton, a mayor of Wakefield and was founded in 1854. It was an amalgamation of Wakefield General Dispensary, founded in 1787, and the Wakefield House of Recovery, founded in 1826. Wakefield General Dispensary was for out-patients and the Wakefield House of Recovery was for poor in-patients suffering from infectious diseases.
In 1852 the Wakefield Union Workhouse was completed and its hospital wards accomodated pauper invalids and fever cases, so that the House of Recovery was closed in 1854. In 1863 Mayor Clayton financed an expansion and the institution was re-named 'The Clayton Hospital and Wakefield General Dispensary'. The site moved from Dispensary Yard to the present site in 1876 and the new building was opened in 1879.By 1948 the name was changed to Clayton Hospital and it had a capacity of 200 beds. It was announced in the Wakefield Express Newspaper of the Hospitals closure on the 12th October 2012