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Paulsons Drive, MANSFIELD, NG19 7AA

Frontage on Paulsons Drive. For an alternative view, please see Image

Construction work on the site of the former Mansfield General Hospital. This project is an £8.5m residential complex of 42 x one and two bedroom apartments, plus 12 bungalows. The accommodation will be for the over-55 year olds and is to be set around a landscaped village green. Completion of the project is anticipated to be in November 2017. In the distance is church of St John with St Mary on the other side of the A6009 (a.k.a. Chesterfield Road South). The church tower is approximately 80 feet in height and the spire about 100 feet.

The rubble in the foreground is all that remains of Mansfield's former general hospital, whilst providing the backdrop is the Mansfield Business Centre, Ashfield Avenue. Addendum: Planning permission for the construction of an £8.5m residential complex of 42 one and two bedroom apartments + 12 bungalows was granted in April 2016. This accommodation is to be for the over-55s, and it will be set around a landscaped village green. The construction period for the scheme is anticipated to be June 2016-November 2017.

This cluster of houses occupy a corner site between West Hill Drive on the right and West Hill Avenue on the left. The wooden structure with the pitched roof at the closed end of West Hill Avenue is a probably the only structure still standing on the site of the town's former general hospital behind it. The hospital has been demolished and the council are currently taking public soundings about its plans to build 30-50 residential units for elderly people. Perhaps the wooden structure has been left for use as a shelter for the building contractors who will come onto the site shortly, or could it become a garden shelter for the future residents?

On Chesterfield Road South. Please see Image for an alternative view.

This is the former East Midland Motor Services bus garage, probably relinquished some time in the 1990s.

A large house in Arts and Crafts style, now converted to office use. 1904-05, by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin for Walter Barringer of Mansfield. Listed Grade II*. The gates and boundary wall are included in the description.

This hospital on West Hill Drive started with five beds in the early C19th and was known as The Mansfield General Hospital. By 1890 it boasted 108 beds. Finally, Eric Sykes, the comedian, opened the last ward extension in 1950, a wing containing 60 beds. The hospital closed its doors in 1992, after King's Mill Hospital opened and it has now stood empty and uncared for over 20 years. Recently however, the Council have announced plans to build housing on the site. The other side of the road is already occupied by private housing.

West Hill Drive (ahead) is seen from one of several building site entrances. Inside this fence work continues apace on a project to build new homes for over-55s on the former Mansfield General Hospital site. This now-demolished hospital began with five beds in the early C19th and boasted 108 beds by 1890. Eric Sykes, the comedian, opened the last ward extension in 1950, a wing containing 60 beds. The hospital finally closed its doors in 1992, once the new King's Mill Hospital was opened, after which time it stood empty for over 20 years. West Hill Drive empties out - in both directions - into Chesterfield Road South (i.e. the A6009).