Abandoned Hospitals

[Plain Talker]

Originally posted by buck

My Grandfather Christopher Smart was a patient at Middlewood hospital. He had survived four years at the front in France during World War 1, and had come home shell shocked, what is called combat fatigue today. What couldn't have helped much was that his wife died in 1916 leaving a family of six children in the care of the oldest girl, sixteen years old. Compassionate leave was denied in those heartless days. Though I was only eight when he died I can recall the hospital grounds as very like a park. The hospital was also used to house wounded soldiers in WW2

 

My grandmother's mother was an inpatient at Middlewood for many, many years, from the early 1920's. when my grandmother and her older brother were only about four/five years old.

 

She suffered from puerperal psychosis, which was then called "milk fever".

 

it is a condition closely related to PND (Post Natal Depression) but it is worse, because the person becomes "delusional", as it is not jsut the normal, hormonal, "post-baby blues".

 

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my great grandmother, under the influence of the delusions, was convinced that the new baby was a piece of coal.

 

She put the baby on the fire, in this delusional state.

 

The baby, sadly, died of its injuries.

 

My grandmother told this piece of family history to me, almoast 70 years after the event, and she was still traumatised by it.

 

She had often spoken, when I was a child, about being brought up with the help of her aunt and uncle. I had wondered why this had been so, and when she related this to me, it all sloted into place, and finally made sense.

 

PT

[Plain Talker]

Originally posted by Harlan

There used to be a hospital near Weston Park,between Bolsover St and Crookesmoor Rd, known as"Winter St" where all the tuberculosis patients went,and in my younger days whenever it was said someone had "gone in to Winter St",that was like a death sentence,is it still there,?.

 

Yes, it still exists.

 

It was, indeed, an isolation hospital, for tuberculosis (TB) patients

 

in the 70's, it became a geriatric specialty place, then, when it closed down as that, it became the offices for the midwifery dept, IIRC.

 

It is still offices, it is no longer wards.

 

PT

[mojoworking]

Originally posted by max

Not forgetting The Royal Infirmary on Infrimary Road now Safeways (sorry, Morrisons) and The Royal on West Street.

 

Here's an interesting (if off-topic) fact about the Royal Infirmary. In the early 50s, Paul McCartney was on a weekend outing with the Boy Scouts in the Hathersage area. While there he fell and broke his arm and was brought to The Infirmary to be patched up before going back to Liverpool.

 

Not a lot of people know that!

[Yorkie]

Originally posted by Ark-Seven

 

 

As a Photographer and some what of a film maker, I'd be interested to know about any abandoned Hospitals or such buildings.

 

 

Please, can any one help?

 

 

There is the little known Hallwood Isolation Hospital near Grenoside. In fact the Grenoside History Society is currently asking if anyone has any info on the place.

 

Click Here for The Grenoside History Society

 

The old hospital is on the main A61 Penistone Road, between Grenoside and High Green. It is not far from the junction with Hall Wood Road, which is an extension of Burncross Road that comes up from Chapeltown.

[Janet Olsen]

I used to work on the reception & switchboard at Middlewood hospitals back in the 60's. The two hospials were in the same grounds & used the same switchboards etc: The Middlewood hospital was the mentally disturbed side & Wharncliffe was a general hospital & I believe at one stage there was considered one of the best burns hospitals around. My mother also worked there as a nurse for about 25 years & worked at both Middlewood & Wharncliffe she did general nursing first at Wharncliffe & then transferred over to Middlewood a psychiatric nurse(think Ihave spelt that incorrectly. It used to be a great place to work.

[max]

There was also the Whiteley Wood Clinic in Fulwood which was a specialist burns unit. (No jokes about timorous beasties please). Now apartments - surprise, suprise.

[Plain Talker]

Originally posted by max

There was also the Whiteley Wood Clinic in Fulwood which was a specialist burns unit. (No jokes about timorous beasties please). Now apartments - surprise, suprise.

 

Whiteley Woods, for some years housed a residential hospital and outpatients dept for people with mental illnesses.

 

One friend of mine was being treated there for a nervous breakdown after her granny passed away, and she sadly committed suicide, just days before her 22nd birthday. THat was a horrrific time.

 

Apparently what is left, these days, of the clinic, treats people who have gender disorders.

 

If I recall correctly, there was also an annexe, to Jessop's hospital, which was on Matthews lane, at Norton, just behind Oakes Park school, not far from the water tower.

 

I understand that this land is also now redeveloped into housing .......

 

PT

[Tony]

Whiteley Woods is now apartments PT.

[Yorkie]

Many hospitals started out as Workhouses.

 

Some local information is available if you click the following link then click England then Yorkshire, West Riding > Sheffield and Ecclesall Bierlow:

 

 

the following link

[tosh13]

I used to go to whiteley woods special school 1968 due to a childhood disability,I had calipers on my legs & other schools would not accept disabled children back then,Newfield & Annes Road school,I went to whiteley woods for about 9 months & I was discharged by the childrens hospital & then I went to Newfield.I remember a school just down the road mainly for downs syndrome kids I think it was called Bents Green.