Hi all Ive been looking at this website for a while now so i decided to finally get involved.
The site i visited was Middleton Hospital, near Ilkley. It opened at the time of WW1 when it was used as a Military Hospital. It later became a TB Sanitorium, then a Geriatrics hospital before closing in the early 1990s, with most of the buildings demolished shortly after closure. Since then plans to turn the site into an Eco Village were rejected, and plans to turn it into a country mansion hit a sticking point over fears of contamination due to the Hospital waste once stored on the site, with rumours about TB still been present in the soil too. Since then the sites just been left.
One of the roads into the hospital
Plenty of old lamp posts like this one still line the disused roads round the hopsital. The powers long gone though
The Lodge. Seams to have just been used as a place to dump things recently
The Social Club. This is the largest building left on the site and was the social club for the nurses who worked at the hospital.
Inside the social club
The roofs definitely seen better days.
Looking across to the stage
The back of the social club taken from what would have been the old bowling green. This shows the roof properly it was moving around alot in the wind on the day i went. Wouldnt fancy a sheet of that metal landing on me
And finally the Sub Station
The state of the roof put me off wandering around inside the social club too much and i managed to miss the admin block entirely so hopefully i'll get to go back there next time im in the area. Hope you enjoyed what i got
(Note: after visiting the site i found that it had been visited by another member not long ago, so credit to them. I thought id share what i got anyway)
The site i visited was Middleton Hospital, near Ilkley. It opened at the time of WW1 when it was used as a Military Hospital. It later became a TB Sanitorium, then a Geriatrics hospital before closing in the early 1990s, with most of the buildings demolished shortly after closure. Since then plans to turn the site into an Eco Village were rejected, and plans to turn it into a country mansion hit a sticking point over fears of contamination due to the Hospital waste once stored on the site, with rumours about TB still been present in the soil too. Since then the sites just been left.
One of the roads into the hospital
Plenty of old lamp posts like this one still line the disused roads round the hopsital. The powers long gone though
The Lodge. Seams to have just been used as a place to dump things recently
The Social Club. This is the largest building left on the site and was the social club for the nurses who worked at the hospital.
Inside the social club
The roofs definitely seen better days.
Looking across to the stage
The back of the social club taken from what would have been the old bowling green. This shows the roof properly it was moving around alot in the wind on the day i went. Wouldnt fancy a sheet of that metal landing on me
And finally the Sub Station
The state of the roof put me off wandering around inside the social club too much and i managed to miss the admin block entirely
so hopefully i'll get to go back there next time im in the area. Hope you enjoyed what i got(Note: after visiting the site i found that it had been visited by another member not long ago, so credit to them. I thought id share what i got anyway)
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