Middleton Hospital, Ilkley-Visited June 2009

[sqwasher]

Middleton Hospital in Ilkley is a site that is awaiting the resolution of planning department battles. As it is a reasonably close site we thought we’d better go check it out! After some research on t’internet to no avail, then visiting the place, we went to Ilkley library to try to find more of its history this also led to a blank. This is the limited information we have on the place:-

Middleton Hospital opened around the time of WW1 & eventually closed in 1990. During it’s time the hospital was used as a military hospital, a TB sanatorium & before its closure a geriatric hospital. Most of the buildings were demolished in 1991 however the social club, ‘The Lodge’, a substation & a building reported to be either an admin block or a mortuary depending on the planning application you read, still remain.

The site was purchased in August 2005 for £275,000 by the current owner who submitted an application to convert existing buildings & build an “eco village” on the site. This has been turned down & the wrangle continues!

We did manage to find some old photos, building layout & an aerial view on an old planning application. However due to the security of the documents we’ve only been able to photograph the screen display & try reproduce them in our report.


One of the former entrances onto the site
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'The Lodge' a small cottage on the site-possibly a caretakers/workers dwelling?
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The former electric substation (can't see them converting this to much!)
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The social club building-the grassed area on the left was a bowling green! :eek:
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Inside the hall viewed from the stage end, with projection room windows visable
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I wouldn't fancy 'treading the boards' here!
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View from the rear towards the stage
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The final building-the admin or mortuary block
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Parts of the roof of this building have collapsed
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A few from around the site

A lampost trying to hide amongst the trees
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Our departing view
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Screen captures:

Layout of the whole hospital
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An aerial view
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Some of the now demolished buildings
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Cheers for looking :thumb .....more pics here:
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[freebird]

Here are my pics from our explore at Middleton Hospital:-

The Social Club
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Inside the Social Club
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The Lodge hidden in the trees
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The Sub Station
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Graffitti on the Admin block or Morgue??? :confused:
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Sqwasher in action at the above
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Thanks for looking :thumb

[sqwasher]

:ohmy does this mean Sqwasher & Frrebird will have to change their names to Cougher and Wheezebird? (I'm sorry that was extremely poor...:blush:)

...interesting stuff chaps

It wasn't so bad TC-honest! :blush:

Cheers for the info SS (& the comments) -maybe that's part of the reason they're dilly-dallying!?

KE-it's weird with the conversion/demolition bit-the cottage near the road is tiny, the hall unpractical right in the centre of the site & the admin/mortuary building is bloody awful!