The explore -
Took a while to get in, there was a gap in the fence but had barbed wire around it and a missing fence piece that had been patched up. In the end sometimes the best way in is through the front. We got in and the arson is immediately obvious with empty packs of firelighters outside the front door and the hallway half burnt. The place is quite a bit bigger than I thought it’d be and walking around the building feels like going through a maze, some of the doors are locked making you double back on yourself.
There is a general unsettling feeling in the building, it looks like it was abandoned during Covid with the posters still up along with the posters showing you how to use a ligature knife. A lot of the building has been destroyed with walls being kicked in, fire and just general damage in every room. The upstairs roof has been burnt and is letting rain in too so the building is probably going to deteriorate quite quickly if it isn’t burnt down first.
I’ve thrown a few drone shots on but I forgot to put the SD card back in it from the last time I used it so they are only 720p.
Was surprised to see servers left in the comms room along with what looked like a blade server on the floor with hard drive still connected.
History -
It was closed in 2015 after being branded ‘not fit for purpose’. Looks like there were at least 2 fires last year but from looking round there have been many more small-scale fires. Also, the guy that stabbed George Harrison was a patient here.
Scott Clinic was a medium secure psychiatric unit located on the outskirts of Rainhill, Merseyside, England. It originated from and operated on the site of the former Rainhill Hospital. The unit was named after the late Dr. Peter Scott and provided facilities for up to 50 patients across 5 wards.
The Scott Clinic, on Rainhill Road, has been a medium secure unit for disabled patients for more than 30 years, but NHS officials have said it needs “radical change” and are discussing using a new site for a 90-bed unit in Maghull.
The Scott Clinic hit the headlines after a string of ‘catastrophic errors’ allowed paranoid schizophrenic Leslie Gadsby to stab his mum to death after he had already killed his dad.
An independent report released last month found Liverpool taxi driver Gadsby and his mum Edna were “seriously failed” by mental health professionals at Mersey Care NHS trust.
After suffering paranoid hallucinations Gadbsy, now 42, was admitted to a hospital mental health unit in 2003 but the beds were full, leaving him free to bludgeon his dad Arthur to death with a hammer in their family kitchen.
After he was released from the Scott Clinic following his dad’s death he brutally killed mum Edna Gadsby by stabbing her in the throat before going downstairs to chat to social workers about Scrabble.
The current clinic has just 56 beds, leaving “a significant number” of patients being cared for away from their local areas.
An initial consultation by Merseycare said: “The clinic’s location means it’s difficult to provide a fully-integrated service that uses all the trust’s complementary services for the benefit of patients.
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Took a while to get in, there was a gap in the fence but had barbed wire around it and a missing fence piece that had been patched up. In the end sometimes the best way in is through the front. We got in and the arson is immediately obvious with empty packs of firelighters outside the front door and the hallway half burnt. The place is quite a bit bigger than I thought it’d be and walking around the building feels like going through a maze, some of the doors are locked making you double back on yourself.
There is a general unsettling feeling in the building, it looks like it was abandoned during Covid with the posters still up along with the posters showing you how to use a ligature knife. A lot of the building has been destroyed with walls being kicked in, fire and just general damage in every room. The upstairs roof has been burnt and is letting rain in too so the building is probably going to deteriorate quite quickly if it isn’t burnt down first.
I’ve thrown a few drone shots on but I forgot to put the SD card back in it from the last time I used it so they are only 720p.
Was surprised to see servers left in the comms room along with what looked like a blade server on the floor with hard drive still connected.
History -
It was closed in 2015 after being branded ‘not fit for purpose’. Looks like there were at least 2 fires last year but from looking round there have been many more small-scale fires. Also, the guy that stabbed George Harrison was a patient here.
Scott Clinic was a medium secure psychiatric unit located on the outskirts of Rainhill, Merseyside, England. It originated from and operated on the site of the former Rainhill Hospital. The unit was named after the late Dr. Peter Scott and provided facilities for up to 50 patients across 5 wards.
The Scott Clinic, on Rainhill Road, has been a medium secure unit for disabled patients for more than 30 years, but NHS officials have said it needs “radical change” and are discussing using a new site for a 90-bed unit in Maghull.
The Scott Clinic hit the headlines after a string of ‘catastrophic errors’ allowed paranoid schizophrenic Leslie Gadsby to stab his mum to death after he had already killed his dad.
An independent report released last month found Liverpool taxi driver Gadsby and his mum Edna were “seriously failed” by mental health professionals at Mersey Care NHS trust.
After suffering paranoid hallucinations Gadbsy, now 42, was admitted to a hospital mental health unit in 2003 but the beds were full, leaving him free to bludgeon his dad Arthur to death with a hammer in their family kitchen.
After he was released from the Scott Clinic following his dad’s death he brutally killed mum Edna Gadsby by stabbing her in the throat before going downstairs to chat to social workers about Scrabble.
The current clinic has just 56 beds, leaving “a significant number” of patients being cared for away from their local areas.
An initial consultation by Merseycare said: “The clinic’s location means it’s difficult to provide a fully-integrated service that uses all the trust’s complementary services for the benefit of patients.
Scott Clinic - Wikipedia
Derelict building fire was 'started deliberately'
A FIRE at a derelict building was found to have been started deliberately, an investigation has found.
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Rainhill's Scott Clinic to close after Merseycare say it's 'not fit for purpose'
Proposals indicate a new mental health facility will be built in Maghull
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