MANSION GATE SQUARE CHAPEL ALLERTON

Leeds Lass · Post by **Leeds Lass** » Thu 08 Mar, 2007 1:06 pm

Thanks for that, I shall hang onto the photo and post it when you have it sorted out!

bigpants · Post by **bigpants** » Thu 08 Mar, 2007 10:22 pm

was involved with old chapel A right at the end before the site was disposed of. The interior of many of the buildings had quickly deteriorated. Ive got a shed full of the parquet flooring from the old nurses home. (but alas no nurses!) spent quite a bit of time in decomissioned hospitals and they are the most eerie places, especially when lots of equipment and effects have been left behind.

20522tay · Post by **20522tay** » Fri 09 Mar, 2007 12:08 am

Thanks for all the info and pictures. Where on the site was the nurses home was it part of the house or was it somewhere else on the complex

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Fri 09 Mar, 2007 11:24 am

The grand old house should appear here in a mo!!

20522tay · Post by **20522tay** » Mon 12 Mar, 2007 8:37 pm

Chapel Allerton Hospital was opened in May 1927 by HRH Princess Mary.It was run by the Ministry of Pensions and cost £130,000. It had two hundred beds and catered for former millitary personnel who had been injured in the Great War.Its patients came from Yorkshire, East Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.It replaced the old military hospital at Becketts Park in Leeds.There were two theatres, and x-ray department, massage and electrical department and a bacteriological library.Officers and men had seperate wards.With the start of the second world war the hospital was expanded eighted huted wards were opened in 1940. The nurses home was also expanded.The hospital passed from the Ministry of Pensions to the Ministry of Health in 1953.Does anything exist of the Beckitts Park Hospital

20522tay · Post by **20522tay** » Wed 14 Mar, 2007 10:05 pm

The attached photo is of the entrance to the old house and indicates that the hospital entrance was a hundred yards lower down on Harehills Lane. It refers to the hospital as a Ministry of Health Hospital so dates from sometime in the fifties

20522tay · Post by **20522tay** » Wed 14 Mar, 2007 10:19 pm

The usual problem with photos sorry

20522tay · Post by **20522tay** » Wed 14 Mar, 2007 11:22 pm

like many I have had problems posting photos on the site so have put the picture of the entrance sign on the web at httpwww.flickr.com/photos/seant_25/

20522tay · Post by **20522tay** » Tue 20 Mar, 2007 5:12 pm

This is a photo of the Clock Tower on the estate does anyone know if it was part of the old hospital or even the original Gledhow Grove House

20522tay · Post by **20522tay** » Tue 20 Mar, 2007 5:17 pm

This is a photo of the old stable block from the Gledhow Grove estate as it looks today. Does anyone know what it was used for during the time it was a hospital