St Joseph's Orphanage, Preston (February 2015)

[Lazarus]

First Report

History:

St Joseph's Hospital was erected on Mount Street, Preston in 1877 by Mrs Maria Holland for the benefit of the sick poor. It was opened in 1879 and run by the Sisters of Charity of our Lady Mother of Mercy, who also ran St Joseph's Orphanage in Theatre street. In 1884, it opened up two rooms as accommodation for private patients, and during the First World War it provided care for wounded soldiers (often Belgians). The Hospital was later recognised as a training centre for nurses, and accepted its first trainees in 1958. The Hospital closed in the late 1980s, and is now the Mount Street Nursing Home. The Sisters of Charity are still based in Mount Street at Provincial House. (Nicked from the National Archives)

Visit:

Visited the site early morning, got there about 6 and met up with Urblex. Found the access was still open and we went in. I say we went in, Urblex got in fine but I was stuck outside. If not for the help from a caring Weelie-Bin then I wouldn't have got in. (Note to self....get better at climbing). Spent about 2 1/2 hours in there, didn't get lost really and got some good photos thought we weren't the only ones in there at one point, sounded like someone was coming down a corridor we had just come from :???: then we saw a car outside but it was empty, no idea who's it was?

Massive thanks to Urbex though, couldn't have done it without him! Cheers Mate

The Photos:

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More photos available here

https://www.flickr.com/photos/urban_lazarus/sets/72157650509957140/

 

[skeleton key]

Good to see you out and about and sounds like you guys had some fun and thats the name of the game.

A cool location and glad you got in fine and the climbing improves with time and at least you used what was around to get to where you needed to be.

As first location post go youve done well their mate and thanks for sharing

 

[hamtagger]

Looks good that mate! Spot on for a first report

Liking that No.11

 

[urblex]

Spot on mate liking those corridor shots & #13 that's a beauty! Oh and #15 as well. Cheers for a fun morning man

 

[Lazarus]

Cheers guys yeah Urblex I enjoyed it. Hopefully the first of many more to come

 

[urblex]

Yeah definitely mate!

 

[jones-y-gog]

Some nice shots there, like how you lit the theatre light. Cracking first report that

We heard some noises and hid in the nearest, darkest toilet After an eternity we figured the courtyard is being used for car parking, probably by the estate agents!!

 

[Lazarus]

cheers yeah we think that's what the car outside was! either that or it was the owner because we thought we heard someone messing with the gates as well. There is a weird feel about the place, especially when your in the pitch black and you hear noises

 

[LewisS]

Great report mate. Always nice to see more pics from St Joe's. One of Preston's jewels.

If the car was a black Corsa then it'll be the two women who use it as a car park. Also, it sounds like you've heard the St Joes ghost that allegedly mooches up and down the corridor. Hopefully Scrappy will shed a bit more light on it as I've never been in St Joes yet.

I was in town as well today doing a bit of domestic related crap but I always have a look around it to see if I can spot anything to get myself in there.

 

[Ferox]

Nice one Lazarus, some cool pics there. You where in good hands with Lex mate

 

[shaddam]

nice stuff =]