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This
is the building in the middle of the last photo. If you take the left
hand route, you see the front of this building. What it was is unclear
as any signs have been removed. There is a door (just visible on the left)
with gas warning signs on it and a reception in the section on the front.
Some kind of lab?
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The building above is linked to the main buildings by this walkway (right). This part, of the main building, is also houses the entrance to the incinerator and somewhere very near is the mourge. I didn't go in there though. Could the building above be some form of pathology lab? In the background is the white secion of the hospital. I took a picture from the pointed parapet on the right. The big incinerator chimney is just off to the left. |
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Round
the incinerator, you begin to approach the front of the original building.
The grating in the foreground is the air vent for the main backup generator.
To date, that generator and a smaller service generator (round the back
of same building) are still in place. I would imagine that main generator
to be of some considerable size. It's exhaust is visible, just poking
around the edge of the building. The gap, where that pipe comes out, is
an old loading dock (below) possibly, given the position in relation to
the morgue where bodies were loaded in or out of the various vehicles.
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In
the picture, on the left, you can see a tunnel which leads right through
the building and out into the large yard. In this tunnel are various doors
including the basement entrance. The morgue door is just through the tunnel
on the right, but is firmly nailed shut.
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This is the front of the old sandstone building. This part, of the hospital, dates back to the late 1790's when construction began on the site of a former leper colony. It was completed around 1801. Unfortunately, it's hard to get a good picture as this is as far back as you can go without reaching the security fence and trees. Either side, of this section, the sandstone wings continue with similar fronts to this on each end. This front section was cornwall's first hospital with room for only about twenty beds due to their being placed lenghtways around the walls. It took nearly a hundred years for any real extension work took place that being completed in 1908. To the left of where this picture was taken, the yard swings round to the right. This leads to the Accident & Emergency Dept (A&E). If you head straight on, instead of going to A&E, you cross a large grass area to 'Lepers Arch'. |
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(Above) This shot gives an ideas as to the size of the old section. (Right) In the last few days, workmen have removed some of the boards on the windows. After five years of looking at a boarded shut building, it gives almost a feeling of life as the windows once again reflect the warmth of the evening sun. |
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Back
to grounds entrance.
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Back
to menu.
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On
to A&E
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