No care for the care units

Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 28 Mar 2012

Now closed and awaiting redevelopment into something else is the Old Manor site of Salisbury hospital. There are many different buildings of various ages and styles, ranging from the old manor house itself to functional post-2000 units. Indeed, the site was home to a Theatre hall and also had two tunnels - one to the nearby train station and the other running under the main hospital building. Previously it was a large mental health hospital in the 1920s and 30s, taken over by the state in 1954 with a capacity of nearly 700 beds for all patients. By the 1980s it was much reduced and continued to be scaled down. The former American forces site at Odstock, which was set up to assist the casualties in 1942, has now been thoroughly modernised and is now the principal care centre for the area. See Image] for more.

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