Report - Newcastle General Hospital 04/2022

Derelict Places

Help Support Derelict Places:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

EXPLOREWITHME23

Active member
Joined
Jun 17, 2023
Messages
35
Reaction score
35
Location
North East
This was a explore i was glad i did and was very easy access at the time there were security but did not seem that fussed if someone was in there, but security is tight now, here is some history about the place.
for many years the main hospital for the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. As part of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust moving from three to two key sites, the hospital was closed and the majority of services transferred to the city's other two hospitals, the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Freeman Hospital. The Accident and Emergency Department and Intensive Care closed on 16 November 2010. A walk-in centre for minor ailments and injuries remained on the site

The hospital was originally constructed as the infirmary for the Newcastle Union Workhouse Building began in 1868 and it opened in 1870. In 1921 the administration of the hospital was separated from the Workhouse and the name was changed to the Wingrove Hospital. In 1948 the name was changed to the Newcastle General Hospital when it became part of the National Health Service.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust reorganised the way it provided acute and tertiary health care in the city and most of the acute services at the hospital were moved to the Freeman Hospital and the Royal Victoria Infirmary between 2008 and 2010. The remaining land is being made available for commercial development the building of a science park (as part of the Newcastle Science City initiative) and the further development of Newcastle University’s "Campus for Ageing and Vitality". Newcastle University bought the site in 2019 and plans to develop the UK's first health innovation neighbourhood.
 

Attachments

  • 327054874_558400956222146_8902333889153328658_n.jpg
    327054874_558400956222146_8902333889153328658_n.jpg
    155.8 KB
  • 327159209_708654877558890_937745311180590921_n.jpg
    327159209_708654877558890_937745311180590921_n.jpg
    155.9 KB
  • 329043810_862349251703365_5225619352041488452_n.jpg
    329043810_862349251703365_5225619352041488452_n.jpg
    260.8 KB
  • 329356873_1244323966441800_3598901433290153907_n.jpg
    329356873_1244323966441800_3598901433290153907_n.jpg
    115.9 KB
  • 329404186_1462621764262295_9088054792541193558_n.jpg
    329404186_1462621764262295_9088054792541193558_n.jpg
    103.5 KB
  • 329428712_908831800257511_7176428889340493455_n.jpg
    329428712_908831800257511_7176428889340493455_n.jpg
    129.9 KB
  • 329453842_1278679292710567_2969580644956968116_n.jpg
    329453842_1278679292710567_2969580644956968116_n.jpg
    89.1 KB
  • 329464266_1916277148723913_7575612583468548758_n.jpg
    329464266_1916277148723913_7575612583468548758_n.jpg
    146.9 KB
  • 329482744_1262236114361469_225264908608960348_n.jpg
    329482744_1262236114361469_225264908608960348_n.jpg
    151.4 KB
  • 329516924_549103997195403_5568877202225567015_n.jpg
    329516924_549103997195403_5568877202225567015_n.jpg
    103.9 KB
  • 329592459_933635887637347_7628577733164772207_n.jpg
    329592459_933635887637347_7628577733164772207_n.jpg
    96.3 KB
  • 329604801_1390660401672360_6871509737149542311_n.jpg
    329604801_1390660401672360_6871509737149542311_n.jpg
    105.9 KB
  • 329663507_1267790930499656_5718824459982900957_n.jpg
    329663507_1267790930499656_5718824459982900957_n.jpg
    55.3 KB
  • 329697654_838402247252386_177484906609320779_n.jpg
    329697654_838402247252386_177484906609320779_n.jpg
    124.3 KB
  • 329795775_572542941460618_3479470592541350922_n.jpg
    329795775_572542941460618_3479470592541350922_n.jpg
    127.1 KB
  • 329882397_923039462227779_2870788762526109800_n.jpg
    329882397_923039462227779_2870788762526109800_n.jpg
    88.7 KB
  • 329905835_953038622453387_2678643610605297959_n.jpg
    329905835_953038622453387_2678643610605297959_n.jpg
    112.4 KB
  • 329951103_493599292962421_6453285332580762888_n.jpg
    329951103_493599292962421_6453285332580762888_n.jpg
    74.4 KB
  • 330117592_763561042086289_576384530577153310_n.jpg
    330117592_763561042086289_576384530577153310_n.jpg
    200.1 KB
  • 330152932_857631731976373_6344131801161595713_n.jpg
    330152932_857631731976373_6344131801161595713_n.jpg
    121.9 KB
  • 330170396_583201833660949_1000465476764272676_n.jpg
    330170396_583201833660949_1000465476764272676_n.jpg
    127.1 KB
  • 330184731_860814078318544_1587761973365132488_n.jpg
    330184731_860814078318544_1587761973365132488_n.jpg
    155.5 KB
  • 330212497_522424490033489_2606832071438498843_n.jpg
    330212497_522424490033489_2606832071438498843_n.jpg
    121.1 KB
  • 330221102_2400019210209243_2110230263904477817_n.jpg
    330221102_2400019210209243_2110230263904477817_n.jpg
    123.3 KB
  • 330281777_637081828224942_1309626848724925224_n.jpg
    330281777_637081828224942_1309626848724925224_n.jpg
    121.7 KB
  • 330302669_578448583918677_9214751117424147316_n.jpg
    330302669_578448583918677_9214751117424147316_n.jpg
    74.9 KB
  • 330311245_903231360881946_4179039439099055498_n.jpg
    330311245_903231360881946_4179039439099055498_n.jpg
    164.6 KB
  • 330324478_931130204973842_7963906442542031382_n.jpg
    330324478_931130204973842_7963906442542031382_n.jpg
    114.5 KB
  • 330332121_619161296885180_5220289799780615825_n.jpg
    330332121_619161296885180_5220289799780615825_n.jpg
    128.9 KB
  • 330350697_893958795139429_2631907044913861482_n.jpg
    330350697_893958795139429_2631907044913861482_n.jpg
    117.2 KB
  • 330351509_444914817776631_8722034762809824028_n.jpg
    330351509_444914817776631_8722034762809824028_n.jpg
    105.3 KB
  • 330353911_1138104046854710_5720590219163086709_n.jpg
    330353911_1138104046854710_5720590219163086709_n.jpg
    100.2 KB
  • 330375134_1372975793437440_7055600397181650763_n.jpg
    330375134_1372975793437440_7055600397181650763_n.jpg
    76.4 KB
  • 330392102_1856925351333404_8361569333048722056_n.jpg
    330392102_1856925351333404_8361569333048722056_n.jpg
    108.2 KB
  • 330393268_1165946430947787_7436422935467915563_n.jpg
    330393268_1165946430947787_7436422935467915563_n.jpg
    85 KB
  • 330428961_1259100078290166_3833773826663217582_n.jpg
    330428961_1259100078290166_3833773826663217582_n.jpg
    126.4 KB
This was a explore i was glad i did and was very easy access at the time there were security but did not seem that fussed if someone was in there, but security is tight now, here is some history about the place.
for many years the main hospital for the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. As part of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust moving from three to two key sites, the hospital was closed and the majority of services transferred to the city's other two hospitals, the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Freeman Hospital. The Accident and Emergency Department and Intensive Care closed on 16 November 2010. A walk-in centre for minor ailments and injuries remained on the site

The hospital was originally constructed as the infirmary for the Newcastle Union Workhouse Building began in 1868 and it opened in 1870. In 1921 the administration of the hospital was separated from the Workhouse and the name was changed to the Wingrove Hospital. In 1948 the name was changed to the Newcastle General Hospital when it became part of the National Health Service.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust reorganised the way it provided acute and tertiary health care in the city and most of the acute services at the hospital were moved to the Freeman Hospital and the Royal Victoria Infirmary between 2008 and 2010. The remaining land is being made available for commercial development the building of a science park (as part of the Newcastle Science City initiative) and the further development of Newcastle University’s "Campus for Ageing and Vitality". Newcastle University bought the site in 2019 and plans to develop the UK's first health innovation neighbourhood.
 
Wow, In my Marconi Medical days I looked after some teleradiololgy computers and one was in the neurology HD ward. Others were at Freeman, North Tyne, Hexham, Hartlepool, Ashington, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow etc. Then it all got sold to Philips😔
 
Wow, In my Marconi Medical days I looked after some teleradiololgy computers and one was in the neurology HD ward ... Then it all got sold to Philips😔
That's why this country is struggling economically now - many British technology companies sold their ideas and patents (or themselves) to foreign firms. Thorn-EMI and GEC had medical science arms as well, IIRC.
 
That's why this country is struggling economically now - many British technology companies sold their ideas and patents (or themselves) to foreign firms. Thorn-EMI and GEC had medical science arms as well, IIRC.
Perhaps it began when Alexander Fleming took his penecillin mould to America to obtain mass production. Admittedly the year was 1941, and the US was still sitting on the sidelines, watching WWII from 3,000 miles away. Once it had joined in , and realised the need for the new drug (for its own troops), it did start mass producing it - even allowing us to use it! That civilian use in the UK did not begin until 1946 says something for the medical ethos of the time.

As for "many British technology companies sold their ideas and patents (or themselves) to foreign firms", part of this may have come from there being larger markets abroad; especially the US again. But 'selling the family silver' (you can do it only once) has been the attitude of our governments as well. When one looks at the USA and Japan, such attitudes towards home-grown industry would never be contemplated. British bean-counters have a lot to answer for.
 
When one looks at the USA and Japan, such attitudes towards home-grown industry would never be contemplated.
Agreed - selling off the computer chip designers, ARM, then re-listing them on the New York stock exchange is just the latest example. I'll bet it would never have happened in the US, Japan or China.
 
Back
Top