This was a guided tour of the place, it had taken me nearly a year of talking to nearly every single member of the NHS management to get here!!!! Please do not attempt to do this place, it is alarmed up and is in the middle of a live hospital with cameras everywhere and onsite security.
Burnley General hospital was originally a work house for the poor back in the 1800's, with italian syle stone from quarries around burnley.
The main building was T-shaped containing the admin office, guardians boardroom, master offices and stores for the inmates clothes.
Males were placed in the west wind and women in the east wing. These had day rooms for the aged and imbeciles to the front and the able bodied and children to the back.
There were later additions in the 1880's including the vagrants block (see the last set of images)
The first place we got shown was the clock tower......... access was erm.... interesting lol, as you can see by the really worn wooden ladder, but well worth it, although i did headbutt one of the bells when getting up there haha.
The bells were made in 1882 and are being donated to a museum.
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