This care home made national news for all the wrong reasons, The owners were pure evil. They also own Katie's house.
This is the saddest explore we have been on the neglect the tenants must have suffered is untrue,
We didn't know the back story before we visited. Before it was a care home it was built as a maternity hospital then converted into an orphanage.
History
Originally called 'Elmswood House', this Tudor Gothic style manor house was built in the 1850s and consists of 3.8 acres. It was extended in 1878 for a cotton merchant, Nicholas Duckworth.
In 1940 it became a maternity and women’s home for the Salvation Army, ‘Elmswood Women's Social Services Centre’ from January 1940. The salvation would take unwedded girls in to have their babies, they wouldn't leave with them, reading accounts on the internet there are people who paid £50 for a baby from the center.
It changed use in 1970 into a children’s home.
Sometime after that, it changed the use for the last time as a nursing home owned by two millionaire brothers, becoming Mossley Manor Care Home. It was forced to close in 2015 due to awful conditions and failings in care standards. It made national news for all the wrong reasons.
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This is the saddest explore we have been on the neglect the tenants must have suffered is untrue,
We didn't know the back story before we visited. Before it was a care home it was built as a maternity hospital then converted into an orphanage.
History
Originally called 'Elmswood House', this Tudor Gothic style manor house was built in the 1850s and consists of 3.8 acres. It was extended in 1878 for a cotton merchant, Nicholas Duckworth.
In 1940 it became a maternity and women’s home for the Salvation Army, ‘Elmswood Women's Social Services Centre’ from January 1940. The salvation would take unwedded girls in to have their babies, they wouldn't leave with them, reading accounts on the internet there are people who paid £50 for a baby from the center.
It changed use in 1970 into a children’s home.
Sometime after that, it changed the use for the last time as a nursing home owned by two millionaire brothers, becoming Mossley Manor Care Home. It was forced to close in 2015 due to awful conditions and failings in care standards. It made national news for all the wrong reasons.
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