MANSION GATE SQUARE CHAPEL ALLERTON

[20522tay]

The gatehouse as it looks today. Apart from the extension on the side and some cleaning very little seems to have changed

[20522tay]

Does Gledhow Grove Lodge still exist and if so where is it ?

[OldBoy]

A photo I took recently of the grand entrance of the Mansion building seen in Phils photo. I decided a link would be easier than uploading it: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/191/4495 ... a6.jpg?v=0

[20522tay]

In the photos on Leodis.Net all the photos of the house show a covered building coming out from the front door. Does anyone know what it was for or when they knocked it down

[20522tay]

A developer is trying to get planning permission to partialy knock down this lovely building and turn it into flats and office. Can anyone who cares about this lovely old building write in objecting to the council and to English Heritage as it is a grade 2 listed building

[rikj]

Are you on flickr under another nom-de-net 20522tay? This has been mentioned there.

[20522tay]

Yes I am one and the same just feel this building is so important that this should be promoted everywhere and anywhere. People have written to Look North, Yorkshire Evening News, the area MP, local councillors and to the council planning department to object

[Jim48]

I have only just joined and am really excited to see so many discussions to which I feel that I may be able to contribute. I apologise if I am providing information that somebody else already has but I can't find any.I worked at Chapel Allerton Hospital from 1976 - 1986. During that time the Mansion was mainly used as a Doctors' mess and as an administration block. I remember being interviewed in that beautiful building and many happy hours playing snooker in the Doctor's mess with many of the staff from all disciplines. The Wards were as follows:Ward 1 - Male SurgeryWard 2 - Female SurgeryWard 3 - Male SurgeryWard 4 - Female NeurosurgeryWard 5 - Male NeurosurgeryWard 6 - Female NeurologyWard 7 - Male NeurologyWard 8 - The War Pensioners' WardWard 9 - Female MedicineWard 10 - Male MedicineWard 11 - Male MedicineWard 12 - Female MedicineThere were operating theatres and X Ray facilities.The Nurses' Home was at the back of the main buildings and the dining room was located there. There was an Artificial Limb Fitting Centre.I am trying to find photos.

[iansmithofotley]

20522tay wrote: 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 Hi 20522tay,I may be wrong but I don't think that there was ever a Becketts Park Hospital actually built. The local department of education built a college on the site at Becketts Park which opened in 1912. Most Leeds people knew it as Carnegie College but has since had many names connected with the Carnegie Physical Education College, Leeds Teacher Training College, Leeds Polytechnic and Leeds Metropolitan University, etc. The premises were used as a hospital during the first world war and for part of the second world war, which is probably where the name Becketts Park Hospital came from and which it may have been called whilst acting in that capacity. Here is a link:http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... AY=FULLIan