Ashley house on St Mary Asylum site - June 2011

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Spirit Butterfly

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brief histor:

Designed by George Hine and Carter Pegg as a 500 capacity asylum for Gateshead Borough, it opened in 1914 and was the last asylum completed by Hine. It was requisitioned by the military for the duration of WW1, in 1927/8 it was modified to provide a sanatorium for TB patients and a nurses home.
Gateshead merged with neighbouring county boroughs which led to additional blocks, a large admission and treatment hospital and convalescent homes being added in 1939.
WW2 gave rise to further development; a hutted emergency medical service hospital was added which was converted after the war to house mental patients. Under the NHS limited development and then closures led to the contraction of services into the main buildings, it remained open until 1995.






These are buildings around St Mary's asylum. We couldn't really go very close to the actual asylum itself as there was security around the main hospital. Hope you enjoy the pics. We are hoping to go back again before the buildings get knocked down.


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As we went to check out the actual signage abiout (tresspassers will be prosecuted) We did get more brave and went back to one of the buildings where we had to quickly hide behind a wall as a vehicle came down the road. we waited in silence as we watched the barrier open, then close and listened as the vehical drove off.... A close call lol

Thanks for looking
 
Great thread, fantastic pics.

Perhaps you should use a spirit level/tripod next time :)
 
Hope to go back soon before demolition... I was even thinking of going over to security and getting permission to go to the main st mary building... I have noticed on a map that there is another building in that area to investigate
 
Been there many times, love it around there, not much in the main building, the mortuary has been knocked down, but theres a farm and two houses that were worth a look around
 
and went back to one of the buildings where we had to quickly hide behind a wall as a vehicle came down the road.

We went onto the site on Friday and bypassed the workmen to get into the main buildings. Trouble was the most interesting building was right by where they were working. Anyhow after abit they dissapeared in their JCB GT so we set off walking across the open space only for the bucket of a great big digger to re-appear as if by magic round the side of our target building. Now I'm 54 but I reckon we still got across the muddy open ground in a sub 4 minute mile time! :)

the main buildings are just an empty shell now sadly though on one stairwell I caught the unmistakeble whiff of "hospital"... sad then to get to the top of the stiars and view bare brick walls.

Best wishes... M and TJ
 

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