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17-04-2009, 11:40 PM
East Fortune Hospital was opened as a tuberculosis sanatorium for the south east of Scotland in 1922 when a World War I naval airship station at Drem, East Lothian, was converted into a hospital. For the duration of World War II the patients were accommodated in a hutted annexe at Bangour Hospital. East Fortune Hospital became part of the Board of Management of East Lothian Hospitals in 1948. In 1956 as tuberculosis patients began to decrease in number, mentally handicapped children were admitted, followed by adults three years later. The hospital became part of the North Lothian District of Lothian Health Board in 1974 and was closed in 1997 following the transfer of patients to Roodlands Hospital in Haddington.


Heres an pic from the air - its quite a large site.


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Was a grey and cloudy day - typical gloomy East Coast feel about it - on parking my car a nice lady approached me and was happy for me to leave my car next to her gate. On the explore met a few dog walkers whom smiled pleasantly and said hello - very relaxed....apart from when I disturbed a duck sitting on a nest of about a dozen eggs - thing made me jump out my skin as it flew up at me from about four feet away squawking.
Visited by many before but not by me.
on with my the pics


The water tower
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from the water tower
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liked the brickwork and the round windows
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Boilers...but whats the scoop like thing on the trolley on the rails?
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no visit is complete without the prams


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amazing - loads of nurses over jackets - 100% wool hand woven Lewis Tweed - only the very best for the nurses here !!!
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"start a new movement - eat prunes" has got to be one of the best signs Ive seen
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and yet another place where time has stood still...


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this was in the grounds ...?? a gun mount maybe - dunno?? looks WWII and its close to the airfield
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a pleasant explore!!