Inside creepy abandoned hospital with plants growing through the walls
Creepy images show the interior of an abandoned hospital that has been left to rot with plants growing within the walls. An urban explorer[1], named Escapade, shared the scary pictures which included ancient prams with realistic-looking baby dolls nestled inside. He also snapped old furniture, eerie hospital beds and mattresses spread around the property in Scotland[2].
The East Fortune Hospital dates back almost 100 years and has become a hit with other explorers[3] who want to venture around the spooky ground. Unfortunately, vandals have targeted the site and sprayed graffiti with swear words on the walls. In one picture, a graffiti heart was drawn on the wall, with the words, “The dead still dance.
The fu****g heart still beats.” Despite the hospital being left unused for decades, multiple plans had been drawn up for it to be transformed into different facilities[4]. However, nothing has been approved at this date.
Speaking about his visit, Escapade said: “I loved visiting the hospital, the area[5] is so vast that it took me almost a day to explore the whole ground.” The East Fortune Hospital[6] was built to treat tuberculosis patients post-World War II. It was located beside East Fortune Airfield south of the village of East Fortune in North Berwick.
During WWII the hospital was turned into a military hospital and expanded to double its size to accommodate 400 beds.
Shopper ‘in tears’ over ‘life-changing’ hair care that ‘eliminates’ dandruff[7]
The hospital was trashed inside (Mediadrumimages/Escapade)
A creepy pram was discovered on the premisis (Mediadrumimages/Escapade)
This was done by building[8] three wooden wards with 22 beds each and other smaller wooden huts, it initially only housed 210 beds. By 1956, after the war, the number of tuberculosis patients began to fall, so the hospital changed its function to house children with intellectual disability and then adults before closing its doors for good in 1997. Prior to this, the hospital was hit by an asbestos scare when one block of the hospital was discovered to be contaminated.
The historic hospital[9] has since been left abandoned, and each building has an asbestos warning. The hospital was further expanded to house 1000 beds along with a church and a fire station, before it eventually closed for good. After the closure, the patients were transferred to Roodlands Hospital, the site of the East Lothian Community Hospital in Haddington.
The explorer[10] added: “In 2006 there were plans laid out to redevelop the derelict buildings into luxury homes but because of the historic nature of some of the buildings, developers were not allowed to just knock them down. Instead, they needed to restore the buildings and incorporate them into their plans.
Huge holes gape through the ceiling (Mediadrumimages/Escapade)
Plants are growing inside the walls (Mediadrumimages/Escapade)
“The plans[11] were then denied by council chiefs who said that the plans had failed to ‘safeguard’ the listed buildings. In 2016 ambitious plans were made again to create a new village on the site, with more than 200 jobs created and 17 commercial units while keeping the listed buildings intact.
The police have issued a warning for civilians about visiting the derelict buildings.
“In the past few years, officers had continuously received a number of reports relating to youngsters entering the facility, with an incident resulting in a small fire being started, which required the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service to attend.
With a number of buildings[12] warning of asbestos, which can cause extremely serious health issues, in addition to the hazardous material, and the number of missing drain covers around the site, the hospital grounds pose serious health risks to people visiting without proper precautions.”
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