St Gerard's Hospital, Coleshill - December 2012

Well... the good lady is having baby number three on boxing day so making good while I can, explore number five for December was a fantastic visit to St Gerard's Orthopaedic and TB Hospital. A very atmospheric place with lots of original bits and bobs in a nice preserved state, far more to see than I was expecting and looking forward to having a mooch around the rest of the site in the hear future.

Someone appears to be living in the kitchen area, sleeping bag and a flask so Doras beware!

Thanks for looking

History

Father Hudson was a parish priest. He was assigned as secretary and administrator for The Birmingham Diocesan Rescue Society for the protection of homeless and friendless Catholic children. Created when poverty, deprivation and child labour was strife in 1902. St Gerald's Hospital was built as an expansion for St Edwards boys and Catholic children from the diocese and workhouse hospitals.






























































Thanks for looking, there's a few more pictures on my site... Mat

oh wow. these are utterly amazing shots, loved every one of them! thanks for sharing.

Mate,thats a belter!...spot on,with great shots as usual...

Lovely mate Top work

Stunning shots!

I had totally forgotten about this place, thanks to your shots, its back in the frame and heading up the list!

Great shots, definitely the best I've seen from here in a long time.

Amazing shots mate. Lovely and crisp.

ZerO81 said:

Stunning shots!

I had totally forgotten about this place, thanks to your shots, its back in the frame and heading up the list!

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what he said ^^^^

Thanks everyone, really appreciate the comments... fully expected it to be trashed as the last report I saw was a good six months ago but the only thing that seems to be destroying the place is the rotten roof caving in lol!

wow! so good to see this again, and the pics are just brilliant!thankyou

Simply the best shots that I have seen of this place! Cheers for posting them up

Just to echo what others have said: absolutely stunning photography, just fantastic! Cheers for sharing

Blown away with your shots , excellent stuff

Amazing not trashed to badly and loads to see,great photos.

Wonderful images of a great looking place thanks for sharing .

Simply stunning shots!

what camera/lens combo did you use and what processing tweaks did you make ?

superb photos sir

looks like an amazing place

that place looks great, loving the pics, well done