Ludgate Hill Nurses Home, Birmingham - June 2023
A former nurses home on the corner of Ludgate Hill and Lionel Street which was built in 1939 to accommodate staff for the Birmingham & Midland Eye Hospital, which was just down the road on Barwick Street. The four storey, E-shaped nurses home was built to plans by architect Mr E W Turner at a cost of £30,000 and could accommodate 59 nursing staff and 20 domestic staff.
How long this has been disused is anyone’s guess, looks like the NHS moved out in the late 90s(?) and it’s just been sat since. The property has been for sale recently along with the festering dump next door. Would make a nice residential conversion I guess!
Visited solo on a June evening. After accidentally making my way into the wrong building and finding some grotty recently vacated, unharvested weed grow I eventually made my way into the nurses home a little on edge…
The building mostly consists of empty rooms with varying levels of derp
The central staircase which wound its way around the lift-shaft was quite pretty
Retro choc
It was around this point I began to hear noises and faint voices which in my heightened state of overthinking I'd naturally presumed belonged to a pair of Albanian weed horticulturists who were wondering who’d been poking around in their patch. Thankfully though it turned out to be dweeb and Speed and not shouty angry men.
Function room
There was also quite a sizeable underground section with some kind of air-raid shelter feel to it but I didn't get any pictures. I also absolutely shredded my jacket coming back out, I have a comedy picture somewhere which I'll add if I find it!
A former nurses home on the corner of Ludgate Hill and Lionel Street which was built in 1939 to accommodate staff for the Birmingham & Midland Eye Hospital, which was just down the road on Barwick Street. The four storey, E-shaped nurses home was built to plans by architect Mr E W Turner at a cost of £30,000 and could accommodate 59 nursing staff and 20 domestic staff.
How long this has been disused is anyone’s guess, looks like the NHS moved out in the late 90s(?) and it’s just been sat since. The property has been for sale recently along with the festering dump next door. Would make a nice residential conversion I guess!
Visited solo on a June evening. After accidentally making my way into the wrong building and finding some grotty recently vacated, unharvested weed grow I eventually made my way into the nurses home a little on edge…
The building mostly consists of empty rooms with varying levels of derp
The central staircase which wound its way around the lift-shaft was quite pretty
Retro choc
It was around this point I began to hear noises and faint voices which in my heightened state of overthinking I'd naturally presumed belonged to a pair of Albanian weed horticulturists who were wondering who’d been poking around in their patch. Thankfully though it turned out to be dweeb and Speed and not shouty angry men.
Function room
There was also quite a sizeable underground section with some kind of air-raid shelter feel to it but I didn't get any pictures. I also absolutely shredded my jacket coming back out, I have a comedy picture somewhere which I'll add if I find it!
