History (borrowed from Urban Bloody Bear and Wiki)
The original hospital in Huddersfield, which was designed by Joseph Kay and which was located at New North Road, opened in 1831. Additions included the south wing in 1861, the north wing in 1874 and the Carlisle Wing, financed by a gift from Sir Hildred Carlile, in 1898. The foundation stone for a further extension was laid by the Duke of York in 1932; it was opened by Lord Moynihan in 1934.
The New Road Campus has been home to its various named College incarnations since the 1967 when the College paid £105,000 for the site. New buildings were opened in 1967 with the main block being opened in 1971. By 1978 they were 8,000 Students attending the college.The site which now consists of 10 linked buildings totaling 342,000 sq/ft over a 6.1 Acre site, which includes the original Grade 2 listed Hospital buildings, with its impressive original sandstone columns identical to those on the nearby Huddersfield Railway Station. With the statue of Edward the VII now looking over the car park.The College has recently moved into a new purpose build waterfront development for £70M which will welcome 20K Students.The old site has been purchased by Oldham based Wiggett Construction Company for an undisclosed sum Suggestions for the site include a Supermarket, a Care or Medical Centre, with the final potion un-allocated. The local Lidl has confirmed it will move to the new location from its local Castlegate site.
The Visit:
You gotta be kidding me.........
Its been a while, my exploring buddy moved overseas for a few years and my camera sat idle on a shelf, my head torch which is much more useful for day to day life is knackered but that's another story. Oli is back the gears packed we've decided on a place and we're on our way. with a back up list just incase. We get to the affore mentioned college and find somewhere to dump the car and have a casual stroll around, and spot our entrance. (After spotting a security guard in the front car park) Its early doors and nobody is about so we go for it. The access is a bit dodgey and I'm glad when we are in.
Once inside we head into the nearest building to blow the dust off the cameras and get set up, that's when we hear it the unmistakable "ugga dugga ugga" of an impact gun driving big screws into shuttering ply. B*****d
You gotta be kidding me......... the b*****ds screwing us in. Figuring we had been rumbled we hid and waited to see how it would play out. The workman, who looked like Greengrass from ITVS old drama Heartbeat, admires his handiwork, packs up his Ryobi and buggers off. Can you believe it, years out of the game and our comeback tour gets us in ten mins before the site owners decide to tighten up the defences.
OH WELL, in for a penny in for pound, we crack on and decide to worry about egress later on.
This place is trashed. various fires and chavs have not been kind to the place. but still some fantastic features to be seen, trying to remember what all the knobs and switches do on my lumix i snap away happy to be back at it.
4 hours later weve taken our pics avoided the fire damage, and decide to find a way out. Turns out it wasn't to difficult in the end as Greengrass had missed a few spots. so we make our escape and go back to the car and decide to do a driveby pic for the main building as not to raise suspicion. Just as we are driving out of the carpark a K9 search team security van turns up. not sure if that was for our benefit or not.
All in All a real good return to exploring. Thanks for reading.
The original hospital in Huddersfield, which was designed by Joseph Kay and which was located at New North Road, opened in 1831. Additions included the south wing in 1861, the north wing in 1874 and the Carlisle Wing, financed by a gift from Sir Hildred Carlile, in 1898. The foundation stone for a further extension was laid by the Duke of York in 1932; it was opened by Lord Moynihan in 1934.
The New Road Campus has been home to its various named College incarnations since the 1967 when the College paid £105,000 for the site. New buildings were opened in 1967 with the main block being opened in 1971. By 1978 they were 8,000 Students attending the college.The site which now consists of 10 linked buildings totaling 342,000 sq/ft over a 6.1 Acre site, which includes the original Grade 2 listed Hospital buildings, with its impressive original sandstone columns identical to those on the nearby Huddersfield Railway Station. With the statue of Edward the VII now looking over the car park.The College has recently moved into a new purpose build waterfront development for £70M which will welcome 20K Students.The old site has been purchased by Oldham based Wiggett Construction Company for an undisclosed sum Suggestions for the site include a Supermarket, a Care or Medical Centre, with the final potion un-allocated. The local Lidl has confirmed it will move to the new location from its local Castlegate site.
The Visit:
You gotta be kidding me.........
Its been a while, my exploring buddy moved overseas for a few years and my camera sat idle on a shelf, my head torch which is much more useful for day to day life is knackered but that's another story. Oli is back the gears packed we've decided on a place and we're on our way. with a back up list just incase. We get to the affore mentioned college and find somewhere to dump the car and have a casual stroll around, and spot our entrance. (After spotting a security guard in the front car park) Its early doors and nobody is about so we go for it. The access is a bit dodgey and I'm glad when we are in.
Once inside we head into the nearest building to blow the dust off the cameras and get set up, that's when we hear it the unmistakable "ugga dugga ugga" of an impact gun driving big screws into shuttering ply. B*****d
You gotta be kidding me......... the b*****ds screwing us in. Figuring we had been rumbled we hid and waited to see how it would play out. The workman, who looked like Greengrass from ITVS old drama Heartbeat, admires his handiwork, packs up his Ryobi and buggers off. Can you believe it, years out of the game and our comeback tour gets us in ten mins before the site owners decide to tighten up the defences.
OH WELL, in for a penny in for pound, we crack on and decide to worry about egress later on.
This place is trashed. various fires and chavs have not been kind to the place. but still some fantastic features to be seen, trying to remember what all the knobs and switches do on my lumix i snap away happy to be back at it.
4 hours later weve taken our pics avoided the fire damage, and decide to find a way out. Turns out it wasn't to difficult in the end as Greengrass had missed a few spots. so we make our escape and go back to the car and decide to do a driveby pic for the main building as not to raise suspicion. Just as we are driving out of the carpark a K9 search team security van turns up. not sure if that was for our benefit or not.
All in All a real good return to exploring. Thanks for reading.
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