First report, so hoping this is all OK! Visited back in August last year with Fake Snowman and two others.
East Fortune hospital originally opened in 1922 as a tuberculosis sanatorium, next to the well known East Fortune air field. However the number of patients fell after the second world war, and the hospital later became a psychiatric facility instead. It closed in 1997 and the buildings have lain unused ever since.
The hospital consists of a number of single storey brick buildings that once housed the wards, all built to a standard pattern. At the centre is a rambling main block with kitchens, and there are also other buildings on site including a boiler house and an ambulance garage. From the outside they are mostly not particularly exciting, but there's quite a lot to see inside and we spent a very enjoyable few hours looking around.
Terrace outside one of the ward buildings:
Corridor in the first building we got into:
Old furniture:
In the kitchen:
Cold storage room:
All the mattresses seemed to have been left in this one room:
Pipework in the boiler house:
Ward room with peeling paint and curtain rails:
Old hospital trolley:
Recreation room next to the boiler house:
East Fortune hospital originally opened in 1922 as a tuberculosis sanatorium, next to the well known East Fortune air field. However the number of patients fell after the second world war, and the hospital later became a psychiatric facility instead. It closed in 1997 and the buildings have lain unused ever since.
The hospital consists of a number of single storey brick buildings that once housed the wards, all built to a standard pattern. At the centre is a rambling main block with kitchens, and there are also other buildings on site including a boiler house and an ambulance garage. From the outside they are mostly not particularly exciting, but there's quite a lot to see inside and we spent a very enjoyable few hours looking around.
Terrace outside one of the ward buildings:
Corridor in the first building we got into:
Old furniture:
In the kitchen:
Cold storage room:
All the mattresses seemed to have been left in this one room:
Pipework in the boiler house:
Ward room with peeling paint and curtain rails:
Old hospital trolley:
Recreation room next to the boiler house:
