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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- This annex of the nearby Lancaster Moor Hospital was opened in 1916 as a Ladies Villa, intended for lucrative private lady patients who required superior accommodation compared with that available in the main Lancaster Moor Hospital.
Lancaster Moor hospital opened in 1816 and closed for mental health patients in 1991. This impressive building still exists today and is now converted into private apartments for members of the public.
Meanwhile back at Ridge Lea, this structure formed another sizeable complex in it’s own right and stood some distance west of the Lancaster Moor Hospital, accessed separately from it’s own approaches from Stone Row Head alongside the Lancaster Cemetery.
The hospital was a pioneering site for the humane treatment of the mentally ill with the introduction of treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy.
This is a psychiatric treatment where a generalised seizure (without muscular convulsions) is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders.
up to 120 volts are applied externally to the patient's head, which results in around 800 milliamps of direct current passing through the brain, for short periods of time. This was used as a treatment for several mental disorders including mania and depression.
Ridge Lea Hospital first saw a decline in patients after the 1986 publication 'Making a Reality of Community Care' by the Audit Commission. This report outlined the slow progress in resettling people from long stay hospitals. It was this report which prompted the subsequent Green and White papers on community care.
Care in the Community is a British policy of deinstitutionalisation, treating and caring for physically and mentally disabled people in their homes rather than in an institution such as Ridge Lea Hospital.
British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher adopted a new policy of care in the community and subsequent governments harmonised this.
Ridge Lea Hospital closed in 2013 and is still owned by Lancashire and South Cumbria National Health Service Trust.
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Pages yep one point we had tin cans in a string
Lol walkie-talkies anything for the boss to keep in touch wanderer yeah I wandered off. I get on my motorcycle and go when they call I would tell them I’m right around the corner,🏍😏
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Great video. And what a great building to convert for British homeless veterans etc
Absolutely a great idea. Sadly this never seems to happen. Thank You very much indeed for watching and commenting
Nice explore! The communications room reminded me of the omnishambles the integrated of the NHS was, totally overpriced and long obsolete before even half it was finished.
Good video with an interesting history and explore...😀👍
Hey Eddie K, thanks very much :)
Good video again Alw Exploration
Good spot that break glass fire thing surprised not smashed too looks a good place to explore thanks for sharing your video with us ✌😀
Yo Adzey156. Thanks bro
@@ALWResearchTeam sound mate no worries 👍
Did you use a dji drone . ? If so did you not have problems near prison nfz ?
Hi there, yes the drone footage was shot on a DJI mavic2 pro. The prison nfz wasn’t a problem, I always check the route before takeoff to avoid problems like that :)
@@ALWResearchTeam ok thanks buddy
Awesome buddy nice one an Iv still to upload my video of this place
Hey Mike, Thanks
Hi Andy ,cool vid bud thanks
Thanks Markurbex
Great video mate
Thank You Kernow
Interesting place Andy man .and I hope your well bro ❤ do you have a new drone mate ?
Hello Lewis 😎 yes I have the mavic2 pro.
@@ALWResearchTeam that is awesome andy ma man! Hope your okay dude
Good explore, wonder why they didn't convert that building to housing, when the other one was done, it's pretty big.
Hello there Richy :)
That’s a very good point as the place is huge and would have made a great set of apartments
Because it was still in use before the other one was converted. Unfortunately I've had to stay in there once on the castle unit detox ward and another time when I had one of my break downs on the Silverdale sorry had to edit. It was the ward first on your right as you go upstairs from reception. My room was at the bottom of ward directly facing the exit doors. The toilets and shower was next door to the room and had to endure the urinals especially during summer. Both was drastically underfunded but the staff was brilliant and understanding. In fact wondered how they didn't end up having to stay themselves having to cope with us all.
Was their not any secca on there?
No. Not sure why. Seems like they have given up. We went not long after the metal thieves had nicked the lead flashings back in April
Apparently ... there are now two, very olde-fashioned facilities for the mental health care of Special People, awaiting Care in the Community status: The Houses of Parliament and the House of Lords.
These facilities are believed to be too expensive to run, with regard to the success rate of 'treatment'.
Another topper, AWL et al. Stay free. R 🍻😎
Lol. Thanks
@@ALWResearchTeam Without (and within!) sounding [insert text here], I wonder if the peacefulness you speak of at timestamp 29' 00" relates to any ley lines in that vicinity?
Just a thought. R 🤔
@@RHR-221b hello there. The Uk ones are a little farther south. From memory two cross near Bath/Bristol area
i thought it closed in 2016?
Here’s what I know alwexploration.co.uk/2021/08/ridge-lea-hospital
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28:09 early ones storage size of that case size 1/2 it was. Those 1.44Mb double storage of the older ones. Digital. computer. 0 or 1. high or low. We had stuff late 90's come on those if a small program, software for the round CD labels. big cd size stickers, Now all a download, back in the day got a disk or one of these old school floppy disks. Really early ones before the plastic case, where floppy, the name stuck.
I remember the really floppy ones from bbc computers in the early 80’s
Good times
Just started, hoping somewhere a drive away. closest bit of Lincolnshire to me. Anything eastern england.. No, Too far :( someone on roof, outside stairs at 1:50
Hey Daniel. This was Lancaster and it’s ALW Paul on the roof :) thanks for watching and commenting
That place is full of asbestos you know. There’s another site just over the way from where you were it was a naughty boys prison my company has steeled it up but people have ripped some of the steel off and got in, not much in there but it’s fascinating the overflow cells have been dismantled but are still inside think we’re gonna steel up this hospital we’re you are in this video alls I know is that there’s now cameras with motion activation all over the hospital from another company similar to ours but just be careful because I do know the place is full of asbestos. Good video though mate.
Hi. Thanks very much. Such a lovely building.
I have been there in side
I went there today and that beeping was still on the corridors are horrible pitch black 😂
Its a cool but creepy place :)
My boss had pager I was just a worker :)
I remember pagers but never had the pleasure:) thank You for watching and commenting
Lots to see there. I have visions of the Indian Cheif & Jack Nicholson smashing a window and running off into the distance.
Hello there. Yes lol I thought that when we were there 😀
32:26. NHS still use, national thing, get the frequency on a SDR dongle. (usb computer stick receiver thing), run some software, decodes. all sorts. Not that we have ever done. Ok briefly when read about how. things to do with a SDR dongle. NHS messages to be fair, a bit boring, address, phone numbers and what is wrong, ambulance staff thing in the dash I guess.
Ooh maybe 🤔 thanks for the info
My polish grandad passed away in 1993 at ridge Lea. Massive heart attack obviously had mental health issues from being in world war 2 he fought at Monte casino Italy, a hero. He was lovely went to see him at the age of 13 just before he passed. My hero love you grandad Marian Sekula 🥰 xx