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Cookridge Hospital - 2013

beccyboo

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OK this is my first ever report. So here goes nothing...

Cookridge Convalescent Hospital was opened in 1869 to provide a place for patients who had been treated at Leeds General Infirmary to continue their recovery.

The 10,000 cost of the original building, designed in a Gothic vernacular style, was met by a donation from John Metcalfe Smith, of Beckett's Bank in Leeds.

The site was chosen in the then-remote district of Cookridge "where patients could be cheered up among the bracken and pure air", as a contemporary report noted.

Patients paid for their own care if they could afford it but there were free places available thanks to donations from benefactors – three weeks convalescence cost around eight shillings a week.

People cared for at Cookridge had to conform to a list of rules – not changed until 1934 – including "to be obedient to Matron and to perform all such services in the house and grounds as she may appoint".

Over the years the convalescent hospital was gradually extended, and during the First World War the building was requisitioned to care for wounded servicemen, resuming its civilian role after 1919.

In 1939 it was again taken over by the Government and briefly housed the Leeds Maternity Hospital.

Experiments using radium against cancer started on a small scale in Leeds as early as 1929 but Cookridge did not concentrate on cancer for another 20 years when it was acquired by the Leeds Regional Hospital Board.

Officials quickly recommended it should be developed as a regional radiotherapy centre harnessing the latest technology – a plan which required considerable adaptation of the original convalescent hospital plus a number of new buildings which were constructed on the site during the 1950s and 1960s.

The relative isolation of Cookridge from population centres was a key factor in its choice – following widespread air raids on Britain during the Second World War, there was concern about future bombing and the potential dangers from the escape of the radioactive materials used in high-dose radiotherapy treatment for cancer.

Despite the cramped and increasingly-outdated buildings, it continued to be at the forefront of the development of new technology and pioneering better treatments with improved survival rates.

The 20-acre Cookridge site is expected to sell for 13m amid plans to build more than 250 houses on about half the area, which includes three Victorian and Edwardian listed properties. Landscaped areas including Ireland Wood will remain untouched

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skeleton key

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Hello and welcome to the forum.

A cracking first report as it’s about having fun within what we share.

I should try and find one of my own from back in the day as that would get some giggles

Its about sharing and you’ve done that ,love the write up and pics are of a cool location .

Thank you for sharing

Jump on here and say hi is always cool

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beccyboo

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Thanks SK really appreciate it. Iv always been terrified of doing my first report lol

 

Lara

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Hello and welcome to the forum, really Lovely pics and write up there , nice one!

 

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I doubt theres few who havnt hovered over the Post button concerned over what others think.

Its cool to get a good response But the truth is as long as you’ve had a fun day anything else is a bonus.

Be terrified no more as no wolves here

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BadBatz

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Your pictures are shit and no-one likes you.

They should have come out like this!

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Grrrrr!

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Beardatronathon

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Doors

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Tiring this sploring fing!

 

klempner69

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Great first report indeedy,never heard of this place.Thank you for sharing

 

TheBaronof Scotland

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hi and welcome, for a first report thats great, good subject and very nice write up

as others say, its all about getting out there and having fun :)

 

D4RK-INS1GHT

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Cool first report, look forward to seeing more from you


 

Nelly

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Excellent first report and ignore that BadBatz, he's a knob ;)

Tho only one teeny weeny recomendation I would make would be to leave a space between the photos, much easier to view

Looking forward to your 2nd report!!

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Ace first report sweet, love the B+W Curtain Shot, I look forward to catching up with you soon :D

 

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Cracking report chuck, and some good pics, nowt wrong with them, they wipe the floor with my firstat tempt

 
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