Linford Park Nursing Home was originally built in the 1940s as Linford Park Hospital before, at some point, being converted into a nursing home. In 2010 there was a large immigration services raid which resulted in the arrest of 17 staff members - 12 of them on immigration offences, 1 for theft as well as the four staff who ran the nursing home. It hung on with interim management until 2012 when it closed it's doors for the last time. At the time of the visit the locals were fighting plans to see it converted into a drug rehabilitation centre.
The nursing home is huge, by far the biggest one I have explored. Set over two floors the home sprawls across a large plot of land in a wavy line. It being a former hospital, the architecture was slightly more interesting than the bog standard depressing nursing homes from the 1970s I've seen all over. Once we were safely inside it became immediately apparent that the facility closed down very quickly. Nearly every bedroom was still fully furnished, the kitchen was still stocked with food and the whole building still had electricity. This made getting around the extremely long building a pain, as a lot of the magnetic door locks were still operational but we found ways past them all. Once we got to the main reception an ear-splitting alarm was going off, and apparently had been for some time so we paid it no attention.
This was one of those 'right place, right time' explores. Kids had been getting in and making a mess, and soon after they made such a mess that local residents got totally fed up of it all, permanent security was put in place and the building alarmed. Nowadays it has been converted into something, at least going by the aerial views on Google Maps.
It was a fun explore, I hadn't enjoyed a nursing home so much since Malvernbury back when it was a minter.
Thanks for looking
The nursing home is huge, by far the biggest one I have explored. Set over two floors the home sprawls across a large plot of land in a wavy line. It being a former hospital, the architecture was slightly more interesting than the bog standard depressing nursing homes from the 1970s I've seen all over. Once we were safely inside it became immediately apparent that the facility closed down very quickly. Nearly every bedroom was still fully furnished, the kitchen was still stocked with food and the whole building still had electricity. This made getting around the extremely long building a pain, as a lot of the magnetic door locks were still operational but we found ways past them all. Once we got to the main reception an ear-splitting alarm was going off, and apparently had been for some time so we paid it no attention.
This was one of those 'right place, right time' explores. Kids had been getting in and making a mess, and soon after they made such a mess that local residents got totally fed up of it all, permanent security was put in place and the building alarmed. Nowadays it has been converted into something, at least going by the aerial views on Google Maps.
It was a fun explore, I hadn't enjoyed a nursing home so much since Malvernbury back when it was a minter.
Thanks for looking