I've been trying to get back here for ages as the first time we went we ran out of light after an hour, and the second time we only got to see the dentists before we ran into a plod. So being in the area yesterday I headed over on my own. And seeing as I was on my own I'll have to do my own report instead of hijacking someone elses like usual boo
History
Gateshead borough Asylum was designed to the Compact arrow plan by GT Hine and was completed in 1913. It was the last Asylum Hine saw comleted in his lifetime.
Almost as soon as the asylum was opened, it was requisitioned by the military for the duartion of World War I. Following the end of its war duties the site was returned to Gateshead who addded a nurse's home in 1927-8 and modified the isolation hospital to form a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. Further pressure on the County Durham mental hospital led to a union with the neighbouring county boroughs of West Hartlepool and South Shields during the 1930's. The joint funding and demand for further space provided impetus for major additions to the Stannington site which would be completed in 1939. Built in plain red brick with slate rooves, the new units provided ten further pairs of staff cottages, two additional blocks flanking the main building, male and female detached working chronic blocks and a large admission and treatment hospital with convalescent villas at the north of the site.
The Chapel,
Main hall, taken from the same place as everyone else, as the floor is a paper thin ankle breaking death trap
Some corriporn
Cupboard next to the projection room,
And no trip too St Marys would be complete without nipping in the morgue,
History from www.countyasylums.com
History
Gateshead borough Asylum was designed to the Compact arrow plan by GT Hine and was completed in 1913. It was the last Asylum Hine saw comleted in his lifetime.
Almost as soon as the asylum was opened, it was requisitioned by the military for the duartion of World War I. Following the end of its war duties the site was returned to Gateshead who addded a nurse's home in 1927-8 and modified the isolation hospital to form a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. Further pressure on the County Durham mental hospital led to a union with the neighbouring county boroughs of West Hartlepool and South Shields during the 1930's. The joint funding and demand for further space provided impetus for major additions to the Stannington site which would be completed in 1939. Built in plain red brick with slate rooves, the new units provided ten further pairs of staff cottages, two additional blocks flanking the main building, male and female detached working chronic blocks and a large admission and treatment hospital with convalescent villas at the north of the site.
The Chapel,
Main hall, taken from the same place as everyone else, as the floor is a paper thin ankle breaking death trap
Some corriporn
Cupboard next to the projection room,
And no trip too St Marys would be complete without nipping in the morgue,
History from www.countyasylums.com
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i always mean to look in the other buildings but i have always ran out of time, perhaps one day !
