The Hospital was founded in 1831 & by 1929 special feature available included Turkish, Russian & medicated baths & electro-medical department. The Infirmary was also approved for the treatment of Veneral Diseases 
The New Road Campus has been home to it"s various named College incarnations since the 1967 when the College paid £105,000 for the site. New buildings were opened in 1967 with the main block being opened in 1971. By 1978 they were 8,000 Students attending the college.
The site which now consists of 10 linked buildings totaling 342,000 sq/ft over a 6.1 Acre site, which includes the original Grade 2 listed Hospital buildings, with it"s impressive original sandstone columns identical to those on the nearby Huddersfield Railway Station. With the statue of Edward the VII now looking over the car park.
The College has recently moved into a new purpose build waterfront development for £60M
which will welcome @20K Students.
The old site has been purchased by Oldham based Wiggett Construction Company for an undisclosed sum
: Suggestions for the site include a Supermarket, a Care or Medical Centre, with the final potion un-allocated. The local Lidl has confirmed it will move to the new location from it"s local Castlegate site.
Huddersfield is not a place i frequent often. I find it too much like Bradford, all doom & gloom & full of Druggies who ironically, had curtailed my first trip prematurely when i"d previously recce"d this place in the Summer . I"d completely forgotten about the place, so thanks go too @albino-jay for bringing this location back into the limelight, with his quality recent night-time report And thanks for the pointers mate
Called down one typically Yorkshire gloomy day for a recce & met up with @The Amateur Wanderer later on & decided to return on another much more gloomy freezing & wet day (nice too meet up again mate had some laughs & frights along the way 
I must say even with 3 jackets & 2 pairs of trousers on it was bloody freezing, must have been the big Razor Wire rip in my arse lol
The site itself is vast combining old & new construction techniques & buildings, so one minute you"re inside a modern day facility the next you"ve stepped back in time. The only thing they both share is the fact they"ve been well trashed. It looks like the Metal Fairies have been very busy over the last 3 years & is very reminiscent of DRI / Clayton Hospital with added Razor Wire on top. But has lots of hidden nooks & crannies to keep you occupied for a few hours at the least.
Obviously there"s a varied usage of the site from Hair & Beauty, to Biology & Science labs to English & other subjects foreign to me
So the remains again are varied in what"s left. There"s at least 3 Tower blocks of nothing but Derp so bad the views would have been the only redeeming feature, if it hadn"t been both foggy & pissing it down like a Monsoon.
I should add that lots of rooms & corridor"s have been altered for Filming purposes from what we can work out. With smoke & soot effect paint applied to walls/windows & curtains . And old beds & equipment placed....before being strategically re-positioned by us lol
Edit.......No Clowns or Masks were used in the making of this report
As always, thanks for looking
Edit with regard too a mention of Fires inside i can"t comment on this as i don"t remember seeing any fire damage as such apart from to confirm what i wrote above regarding the Film Set thing.
Picture No7 is a good example and you can see where the paint/soot whatever has been applied and where it stops. Also the paint brush marks left on the glass of the windows
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See where the soot ends once it"s out of shot
Merry Xmas
The New Road Campus has been home to it"s various named College incarnations since the 1967 when the College paid £105,000 for the site. New buildings were opened in 1967 with the main block being opened in 1971. By 1978 they were 8,000 Students attending the college.
The site which now consists of 10 linked buildings totaling 342,000 sq/ft over a 6.1 Acre site, which includes the original Grade 2 listed Hospital buildings, with it"s impressive original sandstone columns identical to those on the nearby Huddersfield Railway Station. With the statue of Edward the VII now looking over the car park.
The College has recently moved into a new purpose build waterfront development for £60M
which will welcome @20K Students.The old site has been purchased by Oldham based Wiggett Construction Company for an undisclosed sum
: Suggestions for the site include a Supermarket, a Care or Medical Centre, with the final potion un-allocated. The local Lidl has confirmed it will move to the new location from it"s local Castlegate site.Huddersfield is not a place i frequent often. I find it too much like Bradford, all doom & gloom & full of Druggies who ironically, had curtailed my first trip prematurely when i"d previously recce"d this place in the Summer . I"d completely forgotten about the place, so thanks go too @albino-jay for bringing this location back into the limelight, with his quality recent night-time report
And thanks for the pointers mate Called down one typically Yorkshire gloomy day for a recce & met up with @The Amateur Wanderer later on & decided to return on another much more gloomy freezing & wet day
(nice too meet up again mate had some laughs & frights along the way I must say even with 3 jackets & 2 pairs of trousers on it was bloody freezing, must have been the big Razor Wire rip in my arse lolThe site itself is vast combining old & new construction techniques & buildings, so one minute you"re inside a modern day facility the next you"ve stepped back in time. The only thing they both share is the fact they"ve been well trashed. It looks like the Metal Fairies have been very busy over the last 3 years & is very reminiscent of DRI / Clayton Hospital with added Razor Wire on top. But has lots of hidden nooks & crannies to keep you occupied for a few hours at the least.
Obviously there"s a varied usage of the site from Hair & Beauty, to Biology & Science labs to English & other subjects foreign to me
So the remains again are varied in what"s left. There"s at least 3 Tower blocks of nothing but Derp so bad the views would have been the only redeeming feature, if it hadn"t been both foggy & pissing it down like a Monsoon.I should add that lots of rooms & corridor"s have been altered for Filming purposes from what we can work out. With smoke & soot effect paint applied to walls/windows & curtains . And old beds & equipment placed....before being strategically re-positioned by us lol
Edit.......No Clowns or Masks were used in the making of this report
As always, thanks for looking
Edit with regard too a mention of Fires inside i can"t comment on this as i don"t remember seeing any fire damage as such apart from to confirm what i wrote above regarding the Film Set thing.
Picture No7 is a good example and you can see where the paint/soot whatever has been applied and where it stops. Also the paint brush marks left on the glass of the windows
]
See where the soot ends once it"s out of shot
Merry Xmas
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