TotallyDisused
Member
Hello,
This is my first Report, I hope you enjoy.
Some History-
Aslmosy As soon as this asylum opened, It was taken over by the military during World War I. Close to the End of its war duties the site was then returned to Gateshead who then added a nurse's home in the period betwen 1927-1928 and also modified the isolation hospial to form a sanatorium for turcerculosis patents. During this time further pressure was put uponthe Counth Durham Mental Hospital which then led to a union with the neighboring county boroughs of West Hartlepool And South Shields during the 1930's. This joint funding and a high demand for further space provided impetus for major additions to the Stannington Hospital which would be completed in 1939. The buildings where built in plain red brick with slate rooves, the new units that where built provided 10 further pairs of staff cottages, two additional blocks flanking the mail building, male and female detatched wordking chronic blocks and a large admission and treatment hospital with consalescent villas places north of the site.
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. .
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.
My photos-
Some Photographs where taken in the light and others in the dark, 2 Different cameras used.
HOUSES AT THE SIDE OF THE MAIN BUILDING
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/61951657@N05/5637494125/][img]http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5305/5637494125_80f4ca0969_b.jpg
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Ashley house (WARD)
EXTERNALS
No idea what this is, Anyone know?
Small house or Storage, I think?
...
These huts/ stands where placed in random places around this site
Main Building-
Main Building-
Main building-
Main Building-
FARM
Got Slightly Creepy around this area.
Toilet anyone?
Wash, anyone?
Old Equipment.
Mower, anyone?
Inside the main building ( Gutted, Ready to be demolished)
Thanks for looking
J
This is my first Report, I hope you enjoy.
Some History-
Aslmosy As soon as this asylum opened, It was taken over by the military during World War I. Close to the End of its war duties the site was then returned to Gateshead who then added a nurse's home in the period betwen 1927-1928 and also modified the isolation hospial to form a sanatorium for turcerculosis patents. During this time further pressure was put uponthe Counth Durham Mental Hospital which then led to a union with the neighboring county boroughs of West Hartlepool And South Shields during the 1930's. This joint funding and a high demand for further space provided impetus for major additions to the Stannington Hospital which would be completed in 1939. The buildings where built in plain red brick with slate rooves, the new units that where built provided 10 further pairs of staff cottages, two additional blocks flanking the mail building, male and female detatched wordking chronic blocks and a large admission and treatment hospital with consalescent villas places north of the site.
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. .
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.
My photos-
Some Photographs where taken in the light and others in the dark, 2 Different cameras used.
HOUSES AT THE SIDE OF THE MAIN BUILDING
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/61951657@N05/5637494125/][img]http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5305/5637494125_80f4ca0969_b.jpg
[
Ashley house (WARD)
EXTERNALS
No idea what this is, Anyone know?
Small house or Storage, I think?
...
These huts/ stands where placed in random places around this site
Main Building-
Main Building-
Main building-
Main Building-
FARM
Got Slightly Creepy around this area.
Toilet anyone?
Wash, anyone?
Old Equipment.
Mower, anyone?
Inside the main building ( Gutted, Ready to be demolished)
Thanks for looking
J