Lluesty Hospital, Holywell - November 2015

Originally built as a workhouse in the 1830s by the Holywell Poor Law Union, this North Wales hospital closed in 2008 and despite being a Grade II listed building it sits slowly rotting await in housing development hell. It is not known if Derek Acorah has visited this site.

Team Weasel reunited for a wet day out in North Wales, being Judderman, ZerO81 and my good self.





All the buildings on site are in a shocking state and every corner you turn you find signs of the local fire bugs having attempted to set fire to the place, pity the neighbours and the petrol station opposite.



Lets have a wander





















Oh my, someone has been playing with a Ouija Board.....







and it was time to leave, with a message from the afterlife.......




A pleasant potter 6/10 with the old gang and good explore to hide from the rain.

Follow @fragglehunter

Birch Hill Hospital, Rochdale - June 2015

Visited with Tbolt, ZerO81 and the fashionable young whippet known only as The Underdog. 

Opening in 1877 as a workhouse known as Dearnley with the addition of an infirmary in 1902, Birch Hill became a hospital in 1948 and finally closed in January 2013.

With the vast majority of the buildings now demolished, the last part of the building including its clock tower sits surrounded by a residential building site.





Time for a mooch, this place is all about the clock tower.







 



And up to the clock tower.....





 

but I'm not sure if this one is better in B&W????



Anyway, a nice simple potter - 9/10 (just for the clock tower).

Follow @fragglehunter

Billinge Hospital, Wigan - May 2015

I live up the road from Wigan, I've only been 5 times in my whole life, everything I know about Wigan came from Stuart Maconie's book Pies and Prejudice - I have however had the delight of the smell of Wigan's Uncle Joe's Mint Balls, this lovely lovely smell can be smelt when you change trains at Wigan to get to Liverpool from Bolton *

 Anyway Team Weasel was headed to Wigan this damp day - Zer081, myself and the legend that is simply known as The Judderman. Breakfasts skipped we shot off for some overly ripe NHS derp in what is left of Billinge Hospital.

Billinge Hospital, was originally a workhouse, founded in 1837 as Wigan Poor Law Union, later a maternity hospital and finally closing in 2004, come 2015 the hospital was been demolished bar one building - and this is it.




Even given that there is not much left of the place, I still say you can't beat a good derelict hospital, they never disappoint.







It's been thrashed to an inch of its life, the floors are rotten (not deadly), it is to put it simply - stripped bare but rather good.





 





 



 

Strangely photogenic, yet not much left of the place 8/10 extra points for a walk in.

* you have to be early, preferably before 9am - It is a smell sent from heaven, no it is heaven - except your in Wigan and Wigan is a little poo, as is Bolton but Bolton sadly does not have that early morning mint ball smell - more kebabs, piss and vomit.


Follow @fragglehunter