East Fortune began life in 1915 as part of a WW1 airbase to defeat incoming German Zepplins. In 1922 several buildings and an area of land were used to create East Fortune Hospital. This served as a tuberculosis sanatorium for the south east region of Scotland until the onset of World War II. The airfield was then brought back into service as RAF East Fortune, initially a training airfield, and the hospital patients were transferred to Bangour Hospital in West Lothian. The hospital re-opened after the war, but by 1956, as the number of tuberculosis patients began to fall, the hospital changed its function to house the mentally handicapped. In 1997, the hospital closed down, and its patients were transferred to Roodlands Hospital in Haddington.
East Fortune Hospital - The main building complex
The Kitchen still has quite a few remaining features too heavy for the pikeys too lift
The Cookers
No idea what this is!
Pressure Cooker
Dietary blackboard
Little bit of respect please...
Cool hospital bed, not many of these kicking about derelict sites
Massive dishwasher, defo need this for my home!
This room must of had at least a hundred mattresses!
The Boiler-house chimney
The Boiler Room (these pics are courtesy of JFR420 (on Flickr) cause am too much of a bloater to fit through the door!
The Boiler-house valves and pipes
The Boilers are massive
The hospital complex is made up of so many smaller un-linked wards and outbuildings, mostly sealed up though.
The heavens open right after this shot and we took refuge in the old ambulance workshop
Inside contained the famous wheelchair
I'm fairly certain the thing in image 6 is to keep soup warmed throughout the day, kitchens normally have 2-3 of them and all you do is plug it in and fill with soup, so when someone wants a soup starter you just grab a soup ladle, pour into a bowl and viola, done. :)
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