Pinderfields administration block March - October 2011

[Wakey Lad]

Visited this place many times between March - October last year, covered the entire place but though I would just put some photos of the admin block up, such a shame it could not have been saved.

History

Pinderfield’s was originally part of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum. It was built to house recently diagnosed mental patients, keeping them totally separate in an entirely new building. The Acute Hospital opened on March 8th, 1900, at a total cost of £69,000. When the Second World War broke out in 1939 the hospital was designated as an emergency hospital to treat injured solders, casualties from Dunkirk were brought to the hospital for treatment, as were victims of the Hull air raids. Farmland next to the hospital was bought to extend the hospital and the mental patients were transferred to other asylums across Yorkshire. The first matron, Alice Whaley, took an immediate dislike to the name of the hospital, Wakefield Emergency Hospital and realising that the hospital stood on the site of fields once occupied by the Pinder of Wakefield, she persuaded the hospital board to re-name it 'Pinder Fields. The old building has now been demolished having been replaced by a new “concrete box” nearby.



































Thanks for looking

[simonix]

Very sad.

[bexerbee]

i went here a week or so ago on my way back from st peters i was dissapointed to find just a carpark were this building once stood such a shame they feel the need to knock epic craftsmanship and beautiful buildings like this down just to replace them with what in effect is pop up buildings

[coops]

What a shame its gone some really nice pics there mate

[KingElvis]

Cool, was there any way up to the clock?

[Clough]

We had a run round here every corner you turned you saw people jumping out of windows with scrap freshly pikyed, was a bit mental. Is a shame thou knock that down for a car park? Gay arse council officials are twonks

[Canonite]

There was a route up to the clock via the loftspace above the staircase to the left of the snooker room. But during the ripout the stud walling erected during the refit was ripped out and ceilings removed.

The clock and admin entrance 2 are still on site, the same place since they took it off the low loader. It was supposed to be refurbed and later used as a feature on a roundabout on site.

[Wakey Lad]

Cool, was there any way up to the clock?

Not that i could see, think the access was behind a locked door we found, took well over 5000 photos of this place over a six month period, future generations will hopefully look at them and realise what has been lost - The new hospital will not stand the test of time very well........