Royal Haslar Hospital MASSIVE URBEX

This place was so large and we only did about two thirds of it. It has some of the longest tunnels of any hospital I have ever seen. It was also stocked with CT/MRI Nuclear Medicine scanners and peoples blood samples and other crazyness. It is being converted to housing so the only time to see it is the next 6 months... Its location on the Portsmouth Docks was stunning with views out to sea.


WIKI INFO:



The Admiralty acquired the site selected for the hospital, Haslar Farm, whose name came from Anglo-Saxon Hæsel-ōra (English: Hazel Bank), in 1745.[1] The building was designed by Theodore Jacobsen and construction of the main building was completed in on 23 October 1753.[1] On completion it was the largest brick building in Europe.[1] Building works cost more than £100,000, nearly double the cost of the Admiralty headquarters in London. In its early years it was known as the Royal Hospital Haslar.[1]

Patients usually arrived by boat (it was not until 1795 that a bridge was built over Haslar Creek, providing a direct link to Gosport).[1] Built on a peninsula, the guard towers, high brick walls, bars and railings throughout the site were all designed to stop patients, many of whom had been press ganged, from going absent without leave.[3]

The hospital treated casualties between 1803 and 1815 during the Napoleonic Wars.[1]

The hospital established the country's first blood bank, treated casualties from the Normandy landings and deployed clinicians to field hospitals in Europe and in the Far East during the Second World War.[1] It was renamed the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar to reflect its naval traditions in 1954.[1]

The hospital's remit became tri-service in 1996 when it reverted to being called the Royal Hospital Haslar.[1] A hyperbaric medicine unit was established at the hospital at that time.[5] To mark the handover of control to the National Health Service in 2007, the military medical staff "marched out" of the hospital in 2007, exercising the unit's rights of the freedom of Gosport.[6]



Closure


All remaining medical facilities at the site were closed in 2009. The 25-hectare hospital site was sold to developers for £3 million later that year in 2009

On 17 May 2010 an investigation of the hospital's burial ground, by archaeologists from Cranfield Forensic Institute, was featured on Channel 4's television programme Time Team. It established that a large number of individuals (calculated as approximately 7,785[9]) had been buried in unmarked graves.[10]

Plans were released in 2014 for a £152 million redevelopment scheme involving housing, commercial space, a retirement home and a hotel.[11] The hospital itself is a Grade II listed building.[12]







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