Me, Neosea, Katputnik (good to meet ya mate) and 85Vintage, took a recent trip up north to see St Marys, it was a great day out, thanks goes to 85Vintage for the driving and Carlosthejackel for the help 
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Built: 1912 Opened 1913 as the Pauper Asylum for Gateshead.
Architect: George Thomas Hine & Carter Pegg
Became Gateshead County Borough Mental Hospital in 1920
Then St Mary's Hospital from 1948 Closed 1995
The asylum was requisitioned by the military for the duartion of World War I. At the end of the war the site was returned to Gateshead, who addded a nurse's home in 1927-8 and modified the isolation hospital to form a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. Further pressure on the County Durham mental hospital led to a union with the neighbouring county boroughs of West Hartlepool and South Shields during the 1930's. The joint funding and demand for further space provided impetus for major additions to the Stannington site which would be completed in 1939. Built in plain red brick, the new units provided ten further pairs of staff cottages, two additional blocks flanking the main building, male and female detached working chronic blocks and a large admission and treatment hospital with convalescent villas at the north of the site.
World War II led to the development of a hutted Emergency medical services hospital to the north of the admission unit, which was also requisitioned. The end of the war brought about the creation of the National health service, under which the hospital became known as St. Mary's - named after the Stannington parish church. The hutted emergency hospital was converted to house mental defectives.
The pics:
Plenty more on my website over the next couple of days.
.Built: 1912 Opened 1913 as the Pauper Asylum for Gateshead.
Architect: George Thomas Hine & Carter Pegg
Became Gateshead County Borough Mental Hospital in 1920
Then St Mary's Hospital from 1948 Closed 1995
The asylum was requisitioned by the military for the duartion of World War I. At the end of the war the site was returned to Gateshead, who addded a nurse's home in 1927-8 and modified the isolation hospital to form a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. Further pressure on the County Durham mental hospital led to a union with the neighbouring county boroughs of West Hartlepool and South Shields during the 1930's. The joint funding and demand for further space provided impetus for major additions to the Stannington site which would be completed in 1939. Built in plain red brick, the new units provided ten further pairs of staff cottages, two additional blocks flanking the main building, male and female detached working chronic blocks and a large admission and treatment hospital with convalescent villas at the north of the site.
World War II led to the development of a hutted Emergency medical services hospital to the north of the admission unit, which was also requisitioned. The end of the war brought about the creation of the National health service, under which the hospital became known as St. Mary's - named after the Stannington parish church. The hutted emergency hospital was converted to house mental defectives.
The pics:
Plenty more on my website over the next couple of days.
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