EXPLORE.
I'd read a lot of reports on this place, and it was somewhere I had really wanted to visit for a while. On arriving in nocton all I could think is that someone will have been round the site wiring up all the holes in the fence and I won't be able to get it.. We stopped off at the old hall and took a few photos ( haven't put them with this report as I didn't like any of them, with that horrible big fence in the way!!) We then carried on walking and I couldn't believe my eyes.. the main gate to the hospital was wide open!! Walked in, had a good hour or so mooching around, got some shots and then left the same way we came in! Could not believe my luck!
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HISTORY.
RAF Hospital Nocton Hall was a 740-bed RAF hospital serving the predominantly RAF personnel based at the large number of RAF Stations in the area. Officially designated as No. 1 RAF Hospital Nocton Hall[1] it opened in June 1947.[2] It was used by forces personnel, their families and local civilians until it closed on 31 March 1983.[3]
The hospital was situated near the small village of Nocton in rural Lincolnshire and partly in the grounds of Nocton Hall. The hall was used as the officers' mess. The main part of the hospital consisted of long corridors with wooden hut wards and departments branching off them. The hospital was on a slight slope so the corridors were not level.
In 1984 it was leased to the United States Air Force(USAF) for use as a wartime contingency hospital. During the Gulf War, over 1,300 US medical staff were sent to the hall and many were billeted at RAF Scampton, although ultimately only 35 casualties had to be treated. In its later days 13 American personnel remained to keep the hospital serviceable. RAF Nocton Hall was handed back to Her Majesty's Government by the USAF on 30 September 1995 but has never been brought back into use as a hospital.
I'd read a lot of reports on this place, and it was somewhere I had really wanted to visit for a while. On arriving in nocton all I could think is that someone will have been round the site wiring up all the holes in the fence and I won't be able to get it.. We stopped off at the old hall and took a few photos ( haven't put them with this report as I didn't like any of them, with that horrible big fence in the way!!) We then carried on walking and I couldn't believe my eyes.. the main gate to the hospital was wide open!! Walked in, had a good hour or so mooching around, got some shots and then left the same way we came in! Could not believe my luck!
:HISTORY.
RAF Hospital Nocton Hall was a 740-bed RAF hospital serving the predominantly RAF personnel based at the large number of RAF Stations in the area. Officially designated as No. 1 RAF Hospital Nocton Hall[1] it opened in June 1947.[2] It was used by forces personnel, their families and local civilians until it closed on 31 March 1983.[3]
The hospital was situated near the small village of Nocton in rural Lincolnshire and partly in the grounds of Nocton Hall. The hall was used as the officers' mess. The main part of the hospital consisted of long corridors with wooden hut wards and departments branching off them. The hospital was on a slight slope so the corridors were not level.
In 1984 it was leased to the United States Air Force(USAF) for use as a wartime contingency hospital. During the Gulf War, over 1,300 US medical staff were sent to the hall and many were billeted at RAF Scampton, although ultimately only 35 casualties had to be treated. In its later days 13 American personnel remained to keep the hospital serviceable. RAF Nocton Hall was handed back to Her Majesty's Government by the USAF on 30 September 1995 but has never been brought back into use as a hospital.
