Clifton hospital site - revisited

Photographed on 31 October 2004

I visited here in the summer - see the laundry, in York Walks /3: Former Clifton Hospital site. Soon afterwards a planning application was lodged to redevelop the site of the hospital's old laundry, so I expected it to be demolished at some point, but was surprised when I turned the corner off Shipton Road and found that most of it had gone already. I wasn't intending to take photos here, as I was heading for the far more attractive Rawcliffe Meadows, after also visiting Homestead Park. This might be an ugly place by comparison, but it's just as interesting in its own way.

The only striking part of the building was this tall central concrete-panelled bit, ugly but distinctive. It's in the process of being dismantled, along with the rest of the structures. I'm rather intrigued by half-demolished buildings, and I know I'm not the only one, so I've included some photos of the demolition in progress, taken on Sunday 31 October 2004. There was the usual steel fence around the site, so I had to be content with staying on the perimeter, but I thought it was worth recording what could be seen of the remains of this presumably once very busy place.


Above: old Clifton Hospital laundry, 7 August 2004		Above, and other images on this page: demolition in progress, 31 October 2004


There's a lot of graffiti on these internal walls. The buildings looked well-secured when I visited this August, but presumably it wasn't always so.


The plans for this site: the erection of a two storey 24 bed medical diagnostic and treatment centre.
		Update - 2006 The Clifton Park NHS Treatment Centre has now been built. Here's a photo taken on 11 July 2006. It's from roughly the same place as the photo above taken on 7 August 2004, when the old laundry occupied the site. (Sorry about the rather poor quality of the photo.)


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