East Fortune Hospital - East Lothian - 20/1/12

[Philpo]

I never realised how huge this site was! Mostly ground floor buildings but some larger belters.

It's situated right next door to an airfield which functions as the National Museum of Flight and is home to an actual decommissioned concorde. Braw.

'In 1922 several buildings and an area of land were used to create East Fortune Hospital. This served as a tuberculosis sanatorium for the south east region of Scotland until the onset of World War II. The airfield was then brought back into service as RAF East Fortune, initially a training airfield, and the hospital patients were transferred to Bangour Hospital in West Lothian. The hospital re-opened after the war, but by 1956, as the number of tuberculosis patients began to fall, the hospital changed its function to house the mentally handicapped. In 1997, the hospital closed down, and its patients were transferred to Roodlands Hospital in Haddington.'

Some photos;



























Took my 35mm camera along so might follow up with more if they're decent.

Cheers!

[KingElvis]

I like this place and would poke around it if it wasn't millions of miles away :-)

Some nice shots there.

[hiddenshadow]

Nice work, trolley shot is winrar.

[A_Hardy]

Nice find. Look great would love a look if I got the chance

[Cuban Bloodhound]

Still looks quite decent here, I think it's been saved by its remote location.

[simonix]

Looks like you could spend a lot of time there.