Wolverhampton Royal Hospital

Photos - 48.
Where - Wolverhampton.
Visited - September 2007.
Posted - 24 January 2008.
Categories - hospital.

Wolverhampton hospital opened in 1849, thanks to some local businessmen who decided that the town needed a hospital. Over the years it expanded, with new wings and operating facilities being built. It finally closed in 1997 when a new out-of-town hospital was built. Ten years later the buildings sit rotting away in Wolverhampton's city centre, suffering at the hands of vandals, vagrants and arsonists. Tesco apparently own the site, and work has begun on some regeneration in the area...

If you're interested in reading more about the hospital then this website has a far more detailed history.

External shots

The buildings are rather impressive. Most are to be demolished.

Being a hospital, it has relatively standard features...

Corridors

The intricate network of corridors (and staircases)

Accident & Emergency

An accident & emergency unit. Totally stripped out.

Operating Theatres

Operating theatres - these ones were added to the hospital during the 1960s. Again, they're totally stripped out.

Wards

It's a hospital. Yes, it has wards. They're totally stripped out (see the theme?)

Maxillofacial Laboratory

We decided to make our way up to the roof for the view. Curiously there was a small, unassuming building on the roof - the Maxillofacial Laboratory.

Hmm, what do they in this laboratory? Based on bits left around, such as teeth and ears moulds, it was for faces. According to Wikipedia, Maxillofacial Surgery is surgery to correct a wide spectrum of diseases, injuries and defects in the head, neck, face, jaws and the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region.

Pharmacy

Oh, back to standard stuff. A pharmacy, for all of the medicines. Guess what - it's stripped out.

X-Ray machine

If you've seen photos of this hospital before, you've probably seen people posing in some macabre-looking X-ray machine. If not, here's a macabre looking X-ray machine. Without posing...

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  1. Posted 12 February 2008, 01:20 From Sas

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    This is amazing to look at! The pictures are great. Fantastic cant wait to see more!

  2. Posted 3 March 2008, 17:10 From cazwix

    love this place shame they have let it go like this to be honist i have many hours here in a/e

    we have a building in bilston old collage by the police station thats gone to wasite just sitting there boarded up even old pubs too

    fab photos well done love to see more but it as been well boarded up as im a wheelchair user i do love to see these

    cazwix

  3. Posted 28 March 2008, 14:30 From Keith Mitton

    Fantastic site, love looking at all these photos of old derelict sites. Keep up the great work !

  4. Posted 26 April 2008, 19:40 From kathleen price

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    I worked at the royal for 15 years in the main kitchen then as an auxillary on malet ward i have some very happy memories of the friends who i worked with and of the royal itself,we had such a laugh! Those times will never come round again.I left to go to New Cross the year the Royal closed for good.it was never the same.Its a sin how its been left,it should never have closed in the first place.

  5. Posted 17 June 2008, 21:50 From marc aston

    im working on the demolition on here and to b honest just to look at the placks on the walls and things lyk that u can tell that it has a lot of history same most of it has been nocked down

  6. Posted 23 June 2008, 03:20 From Mark_Morecambe

    Creepy..

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