Newsham Park Hospital
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Newsham Park Hospital
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 19 May 2013
This grade II listed building on Orphan Drive to the east of Newsham Park opened in 1874 as the Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution. By 1899 321 children were accommodated here and in 1900 a swimming pool was added. However, numbers declined after World War II and the orphanage closed in 1949. The building was sold to the Ministry of Health in 1951 and served as a general and psychiatric hospital until 1988 since when it has lain boarded up and abandoned, looking very unloved. A proposal to turn it into flats a few years ago fell through and the building faces an uncertain future.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.421311
Longitude
-2.935161