38 Comments Posted by Solomon92

Scott Hall has not been demolished only the hospital buildings around it have been pulled down. Scott Hall needs to be and is supposed to be restored by the people who now own it, I just hope they do what they are supposed to. It would be a crime if this wonderful building wasn't restored to it's former glory.
The hall was used by St. Margaret's into the 70's as offices, after that it was sold to someone who wanted to turn it into a country club and from what I was told he started to strip it out to restore it before he got planning permission, when he was refused he left it in the state it is in now.
I have been in the hall on many occasions and the continuing worstening state of the hall deeply saddens me, the last time I was in there it was not in the state that these photo's now show it in.
I attempted to visit the outside of the hall just last year as I have kept my horses next to St Margaret's for 20 years, I know the area well, it's history, and it's ghosts to show some visitors from a ghost club the grave stones which are on the front of the chapel but I was met at the hall by a rather nasty, rude security guard who wouldn't let us anywhere near even the outside!
As for the ghosts, there are quite a few in this area, the white lady has been seen in the hall, on one visit I had an encounter with her, I stood in the chapel and out of the corner of my eye she walked past the doorway which connects it to the main hall of the building, didn't hang around much longer that day :)
She has also been seen in the graveyard of St Margaret's Church and she occasionally walks through the mill archway on the farm where I keep my horses.

There was alot of equiptment around at one time, beds of all kinds, chairs and some very strange contraptions but all has gone now. Most of the buildings have now been demolished on this site, the chapel lane end has definately been gone about 12 months now.

Yeh David Salt is right, All the buildings I went in when they were first abandoned had the most wonderful parquet wooden floors, over time the local kids got in, ripped up the floors, piled them up and burned them, crying shame.

Alot of 'the homes' as we used to call them were the same shape and size, all stood identical to the next, I regularly visited the site both on my horse and walking my dogs and I used to enjoy the creepy yet settling peace of the place...if that makes and sense.
You'd walk between these seemingly masive buildings, their black empty windows somehow watching your every step.
I was told that alot of people lived in each 'home' and the upstairs floors housed big dormitories, the single story buildings (on the loop as I remember ther were 3 I think) were used for treatments.

In answer to Dr. Mont

Yeh the place was and still is massive, although almost all of the hospital buildings have now been demolished, the hospital itself was in 2 parts, the main part up by the queslett road and then the part in these photo's bordered chapel lane. Years ago it had a farm on it, there was a very large air raid shelter hidden somewhere in the woods, it had a large work shop type of yard between the 2 main halves of the hospial, then there is Scott Hall, it's outbuilding which are on the hill between the 2 parts of the hospital and it's 2 ornimental lakes, all this is surrounded by fields which used to be farmed until they stopped us and it has extensive woodland. And all of this is now being spoilt by them building over priced new houses, shame.

i love your site, it is truely wonderful.
It will keep these wonderful buildings alive in your photo's as they were demolished last year as you say despite being sound.
As a regular visitor to this site I had hoped they would regenerate these buildings into appartments but unfortunately they did not and now they are gone forever apart from in you photographs, thank you for saving them in this way.

The buildings on this side of St. Margaret's complex were abandoned about 17 years ago and fared pretty well at first as there was security posted on this side but once the security was moved to the other side of the complex when that closed down the local kids got in and destroyed the buildings.
It has always been a very creepy place, I have been in most of the buildings when they were first abandoned and they all had the old parkae wooden floors which over time the kids ripped up and burnt but wherever you were in the building you somehow felt like you were not alone.
We used to ride our horses over there through the buildings and chat to the security who had a constant battle to try and keep the kids out cause there were so many places for them to hide.
It was a shame to see them slowly destroyed and last year they demolished them all as they had been set on fire so many times they'd become dangerous, the complex had been completely sealed up to vehicles by this time and so fire engines could no longer access them to put them out.
It is so nice to see that you caputed them so well before the were no more.

Absolutely beautiful shot, I've spent many an hour over on the St Margaret's complex walking and riding my horse and this shot is wonderful to see and even better than I remember it. They have now completely demolished all the buildings that you see in this picture.
When the buildings shown here were first abandoned about 17 years ago there was alot of equiptment left behind within them but over time kids got in and badly vandilised them.
I was told that in the long single story building on the left of the picture children were housed and treated. I remember on the grass in front of these buildings you once could see where the tennis and basket ball courts were.