Various bits..

Just some random shots that don't warrant a full post by themselves ..And in no particular order either as im being lazy

H.M.S Wildfire 2016

This is somewhere i never thought i would be able to see inside,it is rather well secured and not the sort of thing that is easy to get into.Must credit The Wickerman and Obscurity for masterminding the access into this place and for kindly inviting a group of us to see the place and have a good old meet up!

I am not going to copy and paste history im lazy you can have a link to someone who wrote a lot more information than i could cobble together..

H.M.S Wildfire

There was quite a few of us down here this night and i am really happy to have had a walk around the place..here are some pictures in no particular order.

 As always i have made a poor attempt at a video and added the standard Benny hill tv music to it,...

BuckLand Hospital Dover!

Firstly the site is huge even though much has been demolished the buildings that remain cover a fair old amount of land!

History ever so blatantly stolen from a local newspaper website..

What became the hospital building was first a union workhouse, called Buckland Bottom in Union Road (now renamed Coombe Valley Road).

It opened in September 1836, and offered up to 500 people in poverty accommodation and employment opportunities.

An entrance block on the north side contained a boardroom and the master’s quarters.

There were narrow structures around the central courtyard which contained the inmates’ rooms.

A children’s block was later created to the west of the workhouse and is believed to be the first part of what is now the hospital.

The first medical building was added and joined by a new infirmary block in 1884.

By 1901, more extensions were built, including residential homes for nurses.

The main workhouse building was refurbished after the First World War, but no longer exists 

Throughout the Second World War the newer buildings were used as casualty wards, which it is believed had about 110 beds with access to underground bunkers.

It officially became a hospital in 1948 after the introduction of the National Health Service (NHS) in July that year.

A few pictures of the buildings explored,there are dozens of very similar large emtpy rooms ,a chapel and many treatment rooms with receptions .The morgue is long gone but much of the original equipment lays dotted around the place.

Visited with Obscurity....