Blackburn Royal Infirmary - Blackburn - October 2014.

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Mr beady

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Blackburn Royal certainly won't be winning any awards for best derp but while in the north west killing time while waiting for a friend we went looking for easy non stressy things to do. After a fail in Accrington we headed to Blackburn going for a slightly more discreet but pain in the arse entry.

The Infirmary opened its doors in 1864 with a patient capacity of 32 beds and staff to deal with a total of 516 admissions and out patients.

On the 21st of April 1914 by a decree of King George V, the word Royal� was officially added to the title, it was, in future to be known as The Blackburn and East Lancashire Royal Infirmary.

By July 2006 most of the services had moved to the new Hospital, which was to retain its Royal status and be known as The Royal Blackburn Hospital� the building was officially opened on 8th July 2006.

The site of the Infirmary was sold to Barratt Homes, who got planning permission to build 253 homes on the site, at first it was thought that much of the old part of the Infirmary would be retained and turned into apartments but an Heritage Assessment deemed that the early buildings had been so much altered and built upon resulting in a loss of both external and internal detail that they do not warrant retention in any future development scheme.�

Only the War Memorial Wing remains

Accrington church
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Yeah, not the best Derp, but not a bad one either. Did you see any of the creepy stencil graffiti? Not a bad one to walk around tbh. Wish i had seen it back in the day tho
 
Theres some lovely peelage in there! That circular atrium is pretty special!
Thanks for sharing such lovely photos :)
 
Jeeez I remember seeing photos from here many many moons ago when I was lurking on various forums before I became an active explorer, of this place as close to mint as you'd like. How times change!
 

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