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Royal Haslar Military Hospital- April 2015

MrT

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I struggle a lot for good internet access of late, have a lot of old and new explores to share so will begin with good old Haslar, visited a while back now with Mr K, Matt and a cowboy. Spent hours in here, if you have not visited it is one of the best explores the UK has to offer. We thought as its nearing the end of the day, a cat and mouse game with secca would be fun, so we could explore the site properly. It didn't end well, getting shown the exit by security and what I can only describe as 6 cops straight off the set from an Hawaiian cop with cameras show. Hope you like the few images I chose, have loads from this hugh place. Some history from Wiki below too :)

The Royal Hospital Haslar was designed by Theodore Jacobsen and built between 1746 and 1761. The site opened as a Royal Navy hospital in 1753. It has had a very long and distinguished history in the medical care of service personnel both in peacetime and in war since that time, treating many tens of thousands of patients.

Haslar was the biggest hospital – and the largest brick building – in England when it was constructed. Dr James Lind (1716–1794), a leading physician at Haslar from 1758 till 1785, played a major part in discovering a cure for scurvy, not least through his pioneering use of a double blind methodology with Vitamin C supplements (limes).

In 2001 Haslar was designated a Grade II listed historic park. Several of the buildings are listed.

Its military status was withdrawn in 2007, and those military personnel remaining joined the Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit (MDHU Portsmouth) at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham, Portsmouth. In the summer of 2009, all remaining (civilian) medical services at Haslar were relocated to the Queen Alexandra Hospital, and the site was subsequently sold.

To mark the handover of control to the civilian NHS trust, the military medical staff marched out of RH Haslar in 2007, exercising the unit's rights of the freedom of Gosport

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 was estimated that up to 7,785 individuals had been buried there, although other estimates say there could be anything up to 20,000.

The hospital formally closed in 2009 and the site has since started to be redeveloped.

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Hope this report is to everyone's liking :)

 

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It's always nice to see this place pop up, not good about Hawai 5-O though.. Like the staircase shot, I never got to see that when I went. Great report

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It's always nice to see this place pop up, not good about Hawai 5-O though.. Like the staircase shot, I never got to see that when I went. Great report :comp
Could do with a re-visit, lot I missed. See you got THE other stairs :) Such a hugh place, thanks.

 

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It is indeed, well worth going back to. I spent quite a few hours in here the last time I went. Thanks for sharing

 

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Looking good Mr T, that last shot's an absolute belter (y)

 

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Great stuff, some slightly bigger photos wouldn't go amiss though :)

 

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Great stuff Mr.T!! I've liked the look of this one for quite a while, need to get it done sometime :)

 

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Great stuff, some slightly bigger photos wouldn't go amiss though :)
Thanks dude. Thought might be to small, story of my life. Make a bit bigger next time mate.

 

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Great stuff Mr.T!! I've liked the look of this one for quite a while, need to get it done sometime :)
Cheers, got to be one of the UK's best surely. Fair old fecking trek though :)

 

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Aye, i'd have to make it a bit of a road-trip and do a few places due to the distance involved. Some kind of redbull fuelled urbex marathon :)

 

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Goob job on getting in mate and some epic shots weird about the fuzz turning up security usually pretty sound and deal with it themselves!

 
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