Another dull evening and another location from my backlog.
This imposing building was originally a hospital constructed in the early 20th Century. It comprises a central nine storey tower, with two wings of five storeys each, connected by branched corridors reaching up to the seventh storey. It was a hospital until the 1960s when a newer facility opened up nearby, and was then sold to a religious organisation who used it as a nursing home until closure came about in 2003 and it has sat empty ever since.
A few years back there was a small fire in the entrance lobby which then resulted in every single basement, ground and first floor window and door being very securely sealed. What then resulted for me was the tightest squeeze I've ever had to fit myself through to get into somewhere - which wouldn't have been so bad on it's own but when coupled with the six foot drop on the other side of the tightest hole imaginable, wasn't too much fun. Plus I'm sure you can imagine how fun it was getting out at the end as well!
Considering how long it's been empty, and the total craphole area it's in, it hasn't faired too badly really. It's mostly empty but has a small chapel on the seventh floor, and the best and most intact dental suite I have ever seen hidden in a pitch black room on the ground floor.
Unfortunately there are no views from the roof as for one thing it was pouring with rain and the other - more important - thing is that there is a camera pointed directly at the roof level from a nearby taller building.
There weren't any grand staircases in here sadly, just a pair of nicely decayed but pretty typical early 20th Century hospital staircases.
Thanks for looking
This imposing building was originally a hospital constructed in the early 20th Century. It comprises a central nine storey tower, with two wings of five storeys each, connected by branched corridors reaching up to the seventh storey. It was a hospital until the 1960s when a newer facility opened up nearby, and was then sold to a religious organisation who used it as a nursing home until closure came about in 2003 and it has sat empty ever since.
A few years back there was a small fire in the entrance lobby which then resulted in every single basement, ground and first floor window and door being very securely sealed. What then resulted for me was the tightest squeeze I've ever had to fit myself through to get into somewhere - which wouldn't have been so bad on it's own but when coupled with the six foot drop on the other side of the tightest hole imaginable, wasn't too much fun. Plus I'm sure you can imagine how fun it was getting out at the end as well!
Considering how long it's been empty, and the total craphole area it's in, it hasn't faired too badly really. It's mostly empty but has a small chapel on the seventh floor, and the best and most intact dental suite I have ever seen hidden in a pitch black room on the ground floor.
Unfortunately there are no views from the roof as for one thing it was pouring with rain and the other - more important - thing is that there is a camera pointed directly at the roof level from a nearby taller building.
There weren't any grand staircases in here sadly, just a pair of nicely decayed but pretty typical early 20th Century hospital staircases.
Thanks for looking
