BECKETTS PARK HOSPITAL

20522tay · Post by **20522tay** » Mon 12 Mar, 2007 9:14 pm

Becketts Park was originally built in 1913 as a teacher training College with the outbreak of the first war in became the 2nd Northern General Hospital during the First war it treated 57,200 patients.Does anything exist of the Hospital ? Does anyone have any photos or memorys of the place

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Mon 12 Mar, 2007 10:51 pm

rumour has it that ghosts stalk one or more of the halls (formerly of residence) at what is now part of Leeds Mets' Headingley Campus

rikj · Post by **rikj** » Mon 12 Mar, 2007 11:22 pm

I've always thought that the college buildings were those used for the hospital. I don't think anything else was built there.

Ro-Man · Post by **Ro-Man** » Tue 13 Mar, 2007 10:24 am

The James Graham Building was the main site of the hospital. There are pictures of the soldiers in beds on the roof of the building getting some fresh air, plus I have a photo somewhere of King George visiting the wounded outside the James Graham Building I think in 1915. There's not much evidence of the hospital now, but things do still turn up around the campus. For example, some glass medicine bottles were found by some school children doing an archeological dig a few years ago.The Library in the James Graham Building has recently been refurbished and there is now some archive material available to view. You don't need to be a member of Leeds Met to visit the Library.One of the things I remember seeing on display was a registration sheet of the wounded soldiers when they had just arrived at Beckett Park from the battle of Loos in 1915. The final question they had to fill in was "what would you do to the Kaiser if you met him?". Most of them answered "burn him" or "kill 'im". I don't think you'd find that on an NHS form these days.

Ro-Man · Post by **Ro-Man** » Fri 16 Mar, 2007 10:03 am

Here's a few pictures I've managed to dig outVisit of King George V Sept. 27th 1915

Ro-Man · Post by **Ro-Man** » Fri 16 Mar, 2007 10:06 am

Art room used as operating theatre

Ro-Man · Post by **Ro-Man** » Fri 16 Mar, 2007 10:09 am

Flat roof (of the James Graham Building I presume) used as an open air ward

Ro-Man · Post by **Ro-Man** » Fri 16 Mar, 2007 10:12 am

And finally, a classroom used as a ward

LS13 · Post by **LS13** » Tue 03 Apr, 2007 8:55 pm

On the subject of Becketts park/Carnegie-- has anyone got any idea why they built the commemorative arch (to Queen Victoria?) In the woods leading over towards Morris Lane? it seems a strange place to put a monument like that, or was there something else nearby at the time?

mourning_belle · Post by **mourning_belle** » Wed 04 Apr, 2007 10:49 am

LS13 wrote: On the subject of Becketts park/Carnegie-- has anyone got any idea why they built the commemorative arch (to Queen Victoria?) In the woods leading over towards Morris Lane? it seems a strange place to put a monument like that, or was there something else nearby at the time? Its quite a funny story, they expected her to stay nearby when she was coming to leeds for the opening of the town hall and prepared for her to take a morning stroll through the woods by building her an arch at the end of the walk looking over kirkstall valley. However she ended up staying on clarendon road instead and she never even saw the arch.