Wakefield Pinderfields Hospital pre demolition. June 11.

[ROYALBOB]

Visited with kelseyrebecca98, shared with messers JST, Clough & Fowle,(nice to see you fellas). A fine place in parts, such a shame even all the nice bits are going, if not gone by now, still, a bigger car park will look miles better then period Victorian architecture. Old facts-

Pinderfields started as part of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum (later Stanley Royd). The asylum's medical director, Dr William Bevan Lewis, felt that recently diagnosed mental patients should be treated in separate surroundings – and the only way to achieve this was to build an entirely new hospital.
Building began in 1867 and The Acute Hospital opened on March 8, 1900, at a total cost of 69,000.
But the outbreak of war changed the history of the hospital when, in 1939, it was designated as an emergency hospital to treat the war injured.
Farmland next to the hospital was acquired for the expansion and the mental patients were transferred to asylums across West Riding.
The first matron, Alice Whalley, took an immediate dislike to the title Wakefield Emergency Hospital and realising that the hospital stood on the site of fields once occupied by the Pinder of Wakefield, she persuaded the hospital board to re-name it 'Pinder Fields.'
Wounded soldiers from Dunkirk were treated at the hospital, as were civilians injured in the Hull air raids.

Nice evening explore, though watched by random fat guy (see pic) for over an hour. These here are said pictures-


front by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


hall by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


stairs by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


entrance by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


lookin down by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


room by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


no rails by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


morgue by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr

This is whre the chapel was the previous day

demo by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


burns unit by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


going up by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


ladders by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


smashed by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


bedzzz by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


the clock side by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


old ceiling by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr


roofage by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr

Nosey fat Knacker-



john by ROYALBOB2011, on Flickr

Untill next time.