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sosarder

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Hello all,

First post so please be gentle. Was researching the local hospitals to me and found Aston Hall Hospital which does not seem to be included anywhere.


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The Main Entrance!

There is a number of accomodation villas all boarded up on a very open site overlooked from most angles by neighbouring properties. However whilst walking round I met people walking dogs and women pushing a buggy. Its in one of those two car family new build estates which is dead during the day when the kids have been taken to school and mum and dad are at work!

The site has a planning application in progress to be bull dozed and a new complex built for the elderly.

One thing of interest is that it has a leisure centre with special pool on site:

The sale will mean the leisure centre will be lost, complete with its hydrotherapy pool, sensory room and hall, built as part of a £4m revamp in 1994. The pool is the only one of its kind in Southern Derbyshire. It has hoists to help lower people into the temperature-controlled water, and is ideal for keeping severely disabled people's limbs supple.

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The hydro pool is still in use but the fact is not being advertised. The ploy seems to be to eventually close the facility and claim the reason is that not enough people were using it!

The hydrotherapy pool at Aston Hall Hospital, which opened as part of a £500,000 recreation centre, was used by about 80 people with learning difficulties and physical disabilities and is the only one of its kind in southern Derbyshire.

After six months and spending £10,000, the trust decided that the pool would be too expensive to run and is too far from medical facilities in the event of an emergency.



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One very not in use leisure centre

More pics here: http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/gallery/browseimages.php?c=44

Some more info:
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/4_13_TA.htm#AstonHall
http://www.nhs.uk/England/Hospitals/showHospital.aspx?id=RXM01
http://www.derbygripe.co.uk/hall.htm

Hospital (and a modern estate) takes up most of what would have been Mr Winterbottom's garden (of Aston hall itself) .

Aston hall once belonged to Col W. Winterbottom, who had purchased it in 1889. It was much enlarged in 1907. On his death in 1928, it was auctioned and purchased by the Nottingham Corporation for use as a psychiatric hospital, which has been its main use throughout the rest of the 20th century.
 

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