Please be aware this has long since gone and is being included for posterity. All the pictures are mine from 1994 and 1996. Unfortunately only exterior photos from a camera that came free with a food mixer. I'd love to know if anyone else remembers this place.
Originally opened as the Enfield Workhouse in 1827 it was later taken over by the Edmonton union and much extended. Children were placed there until Chase Farm hospital was built and it eventually ended its days as a geriatric hospital.
The hospital one of my first explores and was a fantastic place although a total death trap. It had been empty for about ten years. In fact, i never remembered it in use and at school it was surrounded by a certain mystique.
It was truly an old fashioned hospital completely stuck in a time warp with painted signage little changed from before the NHS takeover in 1948.
Surprisingly for an urbanised area, it wasn't really vandalised until a major fire destroyed the top floor and roof.
The fire, with fireman hosing the flames from a cherry-picker.
The back of the main building.
This hastened its demise which, came in the spring of 1996 and the site is now occupied by a block of flats. Wards for the local PCT are still in use in newer buildings at the back of the site.
Originally opened as the Enfield Workhouse in 1827 it was later taken over by the Edmonton union and much extended. Children were placed there until Chase Farm hospital was built and it eventually ended its days as a geriatric hospital.
The hospital one of my first explores and was a fantastic place although a total death trap. It had been empty for about ten years. In fact, i never remembered it in use and at school it was surrounded by a certain mystique.
It was truly an old fashioned hospital completely stuck in a time warp with painted signage little changed from before the NHS takeover in 1948.
Surprisingly for an urbanised area, it wasn't really vandalised until a major fire destroyed the top floor and roof.
The fire, with fireman hosing the flames from a cherry-picker.
The back of the main building.
This hastened its demise which, came in the spring of 1996 and the site is now occupied by a block of flats. Wards for the local PCT are still in use in newer buildings at the back of the site.