Been a while since I posted any reports so I thought I'd do one on a place to my knowledge no one has seen. I've written a blog on the place and have posted photo's on Flickr but not a report and this will be the one and only place it will be featured. The photo's are from an archive I have built up over the past two years following the development progress which I have been writing blogs on.
The George Schuster was part of Fairmile Hospital and built some time in the 1950/60's. When it first opened it won awards but I always thought it looked, if you look at my bog you can see some old photo's from when it first opened. The place closed with the rest of the site in 2003 and was boarded up after a load of pikie's parked up there and a soil bank was thrown up in front. Just prior to demolition I managed to go round with out the security on my case then the day before the demolished the place I noted a door open so slipped in. This was the only place I went on site with out asking if it was ok from the site managers, they only found out when I posted the blog but I suspect they knew I had been round.
http://forgottenfairmile.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-geroge-schuster-ward.html
The entrance to the place off Ferry Lane.
External of the main day room
View of the back of the female ward.
Top of the atrium.
Inside looking down one of the corridors
Treatment room.
Looking up at the Atrium roof.
What is left of the kitchen.
Partly stripped out corridor to female ward.
Ivy creeping in the building.
Even the wasps had moved out.
Smaller dayroom.
Power distribution board.
Gage porn.
The main day room which was in a terrible state from water ingress.
The buckled flooring. The next day the demolition started but stopped after a few days due to Asbestos being found.
Come November the place looked like this.
These things make short work of demolition.
The last part to go was this wall defiant to the end. By Christmas the footings were down for the first of the new houses and July the following year the first show home opened.
All that is left to say what one was once there is the name Schuster Close.
More photo's on Flickr
The George Schuster was part of Fairmile Hospital and built some time in the 1950/60's. When it first opened it won awards but I always thought it looked, if you look at my bog you can see some old photo's from when it first opened. The place closed with the rest of the site in 2003 and was boarded up after a load of pikie's parked up there and a soil bank was thrown up in front. Just prior to demolition I managed to go round with out the security on my case then the day before the demolished the place I noted a door open so slipped in. This was the only place I went on site with out asking if it was ok from the site managers, they only found out when I posted the blog but I suspect they knew I had been round.
http://forgottenfairmile.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-geroge-schuster-ward.html
The entrance to the place off Ferry Lane.
External of the main day room
View of the back of the female ward.
Top of the atrium.
Inside looking down one of the corridors
Treatment room.
Looking up at the Atrium roof.
What is left of the kitchen.
Partly stripped out corridor to female ward.
Ivy creeping in the building.
Even the wasps had moved out.
Smaller dayroom.
Power distribution board.
Gage porn.
The main day room which was in a terrible state from water ingress.
The buckled flooring. The next day the demolition started but stopped after a few days due to Asbestos being found.
Come November the place looked like this.
These things make short work of demolition.
The last part to go was this wall defiant to the end. By Christmas the footings were down for the first of the new houses and July the following year the first show home opened.
All that is left to say what one was once there is the name Schuster Close.
More photo's on Flickr
