Urbex: Mundesley TB Hospital. Mundesley, Norfolk – July 2013
History (borrowed from Norfolk Explorer on OS):
An early purpose-built TB sanatorium in England opened in 1899 and provides a rare surviving example of a timber framed prefabricated hospital building. Originally there were also a number of moveable wooden huts in the grounds, looking rather like summerhouses on wheels, in which patients could spend all day (and all night if deemed necessary) in the fresh air without facing into the wind. In 1910, Dr Claude Lillingstone introduced the practice of artificial pneumothorax as a treatment for tuberculosis, having undergone the treatment himself in Norway where he had first fallen ill.
Mundesley Hospital was refurbished in 1997 and was the Diana Princess of Wales Treatment Centre for Drug and Alcohol Problems. But that soon shut and it is now for sale for offer in region of £875k
Our visit:
I don’t normally post fails but this place is too nice not to post at least the couple of externals we did get. It started off badly as we found police already on site as we approached in the early hours just at daybreak… after they had left we  took a different route but alas we could not find a way in… true to form we left moving onto the next site! We will be back…
Such a beautiful building its been on my to do list for sometime I was glad to see even just the exterior!
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We tried to get in but had no luck. On a return trip we met the caretaker of the place and chatted to him for a while. Eventually we got to the point of asking to goin and he said that would be okay but we had to wait a couple of weeks. That couple of weeks has now turned in to months and we are still waiting.
We did find out the reason the police are there is because they train the dogs inside for sniffing out drugs and such like. A couple of urbexers broke in last year when the dogs were there and was attacked by the dogs
I was there for 1 year xxxx beautiful and haunted xx
Now u ate fteaking me out hahahha I was there when we had big snow it’s like another country another town amazing place I used to walk from the house all the way down to the beach late at night I big snow it’s was surreal if u guys project something let me know I’ll be there we were told not to call any spirit seriously I fleet lots of them good ones xxx