Visited with Ella.
I tried here this time last year, a van was parked outside and after hanging around for about an hour I snuck up to see what it said on the van as I thought it was builders but turned out to be Land Shark training.
Saw it come up again recently so we thought we would try it. The usual point of entry was open and as we were deciding how we were going to tackle the entry point a bunch of teens turned up. We let them go first so for our own safety we would be behind them, answered some of their questions about exploring and went off to do our thing.
Very much a pain in the arse explore given the teens were running amok and smashing anything they could find that wasn’t already smashe, making an absolute racket and setting fire to some paper. We tried to keep well away but the boys were showing off to the girls and thought they needed to impress us as well. One of them insisted on showing us to the red room and the bird room. Again we kept behind them and our wits about us.
Eventually they got bored and went off to the White House next door so we could finish our explore in peace. It’s quite a boring building but glad I could get it off the list. We met the teens again when we left and karma struck one as they trod in a big pile of dog shit.
History -
In 1901, what was then named the Princess Louise Hospital was founded by public subscription for sick and wounded soldiers returning from the Boer War. The hospital was located on Chawton Park Road, to the east of Alton. By the time it officially came into service in 1903, the war had ended. However, the hospital was used until 1905 by the Royal Army Medical Corps.
In 1907, Sir William Purdie Treloar who, during his tenure as Lord Mayor of London in 1906-1907, had raised the sum of £10,000 in his mayoral 'Cripples Fund', took over the Alton site for use as a hospital for the treatment of children up to the age of 12 who were suffering from tuberculosis of the bones or joints. A college was also established for teaching technical skills to physically disabled boys aged from 14 to 18, so that they could earn their own living.
Children came from all over the country to the hospital, which had its own railway station, Alton Park.
The original ward huts were demolished as part of a major reconstruction of the site from 1929 to 1937.
In 1948, the hospital facilities were taken over by the new National Health Service and in 1951 were renamed The Lord Mayor Treloar Orthopaedic Hospital. In 1953, the college moved to its own site at Upper Froyle. The Florence Treloar School for Girls was opened at Holybourne in 1965. The boys' college and girls' school were amalgamated in 1978 to create the Lord Mayor Treloar College, now based just outside Alton at Holybourne.
Despite threats of closure from the 1970s onwards, the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital continued in operation until 1994. The site was sold in 2001 and the buildings demolished. The site is now occupied by housing and a community hospital.
I tried here this time last year, a van was parked outside and after hanging around for about an hour I snuck up to see what it said on the van as I thought it was builders but turned out to be Land Shark training.
Saw it come up again recently so we thought we would try it. The usual point of entry was open and as we were deciding how we were going to tackle the entry point a bunch of teens turned up. We let them go first so for our own safety we would be behind them, answered some of their questions about exploring and went off to do our thing.
Very much a pain in the arse explore given the teens were running amok and smashing anything they could find that wasn’t already smashe, making an absolute racket and setting fire to some paper. We tried to keep well away but the boys were showing off to the girls and thought they needed to impress us as well. One of them insisted on showing us to the red room and the bird room. Again we kept behind them and our wits about us.
Eventually they got bored and went off to the White House next door so we could finish our explore in peace. It’s quite a boring building but glad I could get it off the list. We met the teens again when we left and karma struck one as they trod in a big pile of dog shit.
History -
In 1901, what was then named the Princess Louise Hospital was founded by public subscription for sick and wounded soldiers returning from the Boer War. The hospital was located on Chawton Park Road, to the east of Alton. By the time it officially came into service in 1903, the war had ended. However, the hospital was used until 1905 by the Royal Army Medical Corps.
In 1907, Sir William Purdie Treloar who, during his tenure as Lord Mayor of London in 1906-1907, had raised the sum of £10,000 in his mayoral 'Cripples Fund', took over the Alton site for use as a hospital for the treatment of children up to the age of 12 who were suffering from tuberculosis of the bones or joints. A college was also established for teaching technical skills to physically disabled boys aged from 14 to 18, so that they could earn their own living.
Children came from all over the country to the hospital, which had its own railway station, Alton Park.
The original ward huts were demolished as part of a major reconstruction of the site from 1929 to 1937.
In 1948, the hospital facilities were taken over by the new National Health Service and in 1951 were renamed The Lord Mayor Treloar Orthopaedic Hospital. In 1953, the college moved to its own site at Upper Froyle. The Florence Treloar School for Girls was opened at Holybourne in 1965. The boys' college and girls' school were amalgamated in 1978 to create the Lord Mayor Treloar College, now based just outside Alton at Holybourne.
Despite threats of closure from the 1970s onwards, the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital continued in operation until 1994. The site was sold in 2001 and the buildings demolished. The site is now occupied by housing and a community hospital.
well done Gem
