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Report - Cookridge Hospital, Leeds (May 2017)

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Cookridge Hospital opened in 1869 as a 'Hospital for the Convalescent Poor in Leeds' in order to lighten the burden of inpatients in recovery at Leeds General Infirmary, and allow them to recuperate 'where patients could be cheered up among the bracken and pure air'. The main building and the lodge were designed by Norman Shaw in 1868 in a gothic vernacular style, and were funded by John North who gifted £6,000 in memory of his daughter Ida. The hospital site closed in 2008 and has been left abandoned.

Initially run as a private enterprise, the hospital was requisitioned during the world wars for wounded servicemen. In the 1950's the hospital was re-purposed as a cancer research and treatment facility which was at the forefront of cancer research until its closure.

Looking at the older reports this site appears to have been a lot larger upon closure and only the grade II* listed buildings remain.

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Ida Ward
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Main Building
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