St.Marys Hospital Stannington 01/2010 r.i.p. St.Marys

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OLDSKOOL2

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visited with host january after a long drive and a early get up we got to st.marys bright and early spent the best part of 4 hours in there uninterrupted until we bumped into 2 more people of our persuasion
which is all good but not 15 mins later a gang of shall we say hippies(might be the wrong description but hey) turned up on site so we decided time to bail.....then about 5 mins after leaving site a police car turned up......think we made the right choice.Anyway some history then the pics....
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. Peacetime 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. Limited development under the NHS consisted of a new staff training school and a number of prefabricated units providing social and occupational therapy facilities.
Resettlement and closure led to retraction of wards and services back into the main building, with the areas to the north closing first. Despite the hospitals remote location, and considerable distance from it's catchment area, it remained open as late as 1995 when most surviving facilities were relocated to Bensham general hospital.
Current Status:

Despite a number of proposals for redevelopment the hospital, it remains disused with the exception of the staff cottages and steward's residence which are privately occupied. The hospital buildings have all survived remarkably intact due to their isolation and an active security presence. The exceptions include the boiler house chimney, which has collapsed into the adjacent yard due to structural failure and the former emergency medical service huts which were demolished prior to the full closure of the hospital. Due to the largely unaltered condition of the principal original buildings and grounds, these have been listed Grade II status making their some retention and conversion within future development likely.

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yup the mortuary is officially gone,went up today n had a nosey round and got some info off the demo guys.pics to come tomorrow,not pretty viewing im afraid :cry:
 
yup the mortuary is officially gone,went up today n had a nosey round and got some info off the demo guys.pics to come tomorrow,not pretty viewing im afraid :cry:

carlos, what did you do to get the demo guys to speak to you? :D we got told to "fook off, ya fookin trespassin liche".

that was a few weeks a go - when we were on the other side of the mortuary as it was getting nailed by a digger! :eek: im not looking forward to seeing what your pictures have to show! :(
 
i thought the demo guys might be a bit twitchy so i took the kids with me hehe.
they were collecting pinecones n stuff when the guys came over.one bloke even started looking for more cones for them!

they had a scissorlift thingy stripping the slates off and stacking them into huge piles so maybe their on full pikey alert lol
 
oh right! :D having the kids along would definitely be a good "cover up".

so were the slates coming off the main building or just the small garagey type bits?
 
yup off the main building.the satellite buildings look untouched at the minute.
 

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