I'm hoping this is okay, as the site is now sadly long gone.
The hospital started life in 1914 as a military hospital, though most of the buildings were demolished and rebuilt in the Second World War period. After the war, it was used as a general hospital for the Maidenhead area, with a research centre for childhood rheumatism. Later still it became a training centre for midwifery and had a large maternity unit (where I was botn, hence my interest in the site in the first instance).
The hospital closed in 1985 following the opening of Wexham Park in nearby Slough, but the nurses accommodation block was still used until 1988, after which it was totally abandoned and became a popular place for exploring.
In 2006 the remains of the building were demolished, and a housing estate now stands on the site.
This is the view from the south side of the site, viewed from just outside the broken panel in the (rather lax) security fencing.
Ward 1, Maternity, south side view.
Corridor leading towards ward 1.
The main entrance to the hospital.
An enormously battered Morris Minor still parked up, close to main entrance. In the background, the building that contained the staff common room.
The entrance to the staff common room, visible behind the Minor in the previous picture. The German-style writing on the wall is believed to have come from the time when the hospital (by then closed) was used as a film set for the film 'The Last Days of Patton', where the CRX masquerades as the 130th Station Hospital, Heidelberg.
Eastern side of the staff hostel.
Inside the boiler house, facing south.
A shower cubicle in the boiler house
Facing south, looking down the shorter (eastern) corridor.
A view of the collapsed 'Stage Room'. This is where many social events, such as dances and staged shows, were held. Somewhere under the rubble is a legendary piano that sounded very scary when you played, or indeed tried to play, it.
Standing outside the entrance to one of the most northern wards, which was set aside for use by staff, this is the Long Corridor (over half a mile in length, hence the name) looking south towards Maternity.
A sterilising machine, , found close to the operating theatre.
The diagonal corridor that led from the Long Corridor towards Maternity.
The interior of the kitchen. While I was in there, the pictured fan blade was just turning...and turning. And squeaking. The whole time. Rather annoying!
This area was once the staff canteen. The kitchen area was through the open doorway on the left, and slightly up the corridor there.
Some slightly overgrown chemical matter, discovered in the pathology lab area.
The buildings reputed to be the place on site where animal testing took place. No idea if true.
The hospital started life in 1914 as a military hospital, though most of the buildings were demolished and rebuilt in the Second World War period. After the war, it was used as a general hospital for the Maidenhead area, with a research centre for childhood rheumatism. Later still it became a training centre for midwifery and had a large maternity unit (where I was botn, hence my interest in the site in the first instance).
The hospital closed in 1985 following the opening of Wexham Park in nearby Slough, but the nurses accommodation block was still used until 1988, after which it was totally abandoned and became a popular place for exploring.
In 2006 the remains of the building were demolished, and a housing estate now stands on the site.
This is the view from the south side of the site, viewed from just outside the broken panel in the (rather lax) security fencing.
Ward 1, Maternity, south side view.
Corridor leading towards ward 1.
The main entrance to the hospital.
An enormously battered Morris Minor still parked up, close to main entrance. In the background, the building that contained the staff common room.
The entrance to the staff common room, visible behind the Minor in the previous picture. The German-style writing on the wall is believed to have come from the time when the hospital (by then closed) was used as a film set for the film 'The Last Days of Patton', where the CRX masquerades as the 130th Station Hospital, Heidelberg.
Eastern side of the staff hostel.
Inside the boiler house, facing south.
A shower cubicle in the boiler house
Facing south, looking down the shorter (eastern) corridor.
A view of the collapsed 'Stage Room'. This is where many social events, such as dances and staged shows, were held. Somewhere under the rubble is a legendary piano that sounded very scary when you played, or indeed tried to play, it.
Standing outside the entrance to one of the most northern wards, which was set aside for use by staff, this is the Long Corridor (over half a mile in length, hence the name) looking south towards Maternity.
A sterilising machine, , found close to the operating theatre.
The diagonal corridor that led from the Long Corridor towards Maternity.
The interior of the kitchen. While I was in there, the pictured fan blade was just turning...and turning. And squeaking. The whole time. Rather annoying!
This area was once the staff canteen. The kitchen area was through the open doorway on the left, and slightly up the corridor there.
Some slightly overgrown chemical matter, discovered in the pathology lab area.
The buildings reputed to be the place on site where animal testing took place. No idea if true.
