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An early photograph showing Wharfedale Union Workhouse in Newall Carr Road later to become Wharfedale General Hospital. It was built in 1873 in Sandstone from the Farnley Hall Estates and cost ?14,000. A clocktower presides over the main entrance flanked by two wings, one for males and one for females. A central corridor runs the 150' length of the building and children were housed at either end. The old and infirm were housed at the front, and the able-bodied men and women at the back. Between 1905 and 1907 a new 70 bed infirmary was built, the foundation stone being laid by Jonathan Peate on 19th August, 1905. The Council took over the buildings in 1930 and it became Otley County Hospital before finally becoming Wharfedale General Hospital. Now a new Wharfedale Locality Hospital has been built next to the existing hospital as part of a Private Finance Initiative. The old workhouse is now a listed building. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Newall Carr Road Wharfedale General Hospital Wharfedale Union Workhouse | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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