Queen Mary Hospital

Exploring Partly Abandoned Queen Mary Hospital Reserve. (50% of the buildings in this video are on a section of the land that's private property. Security do patrols and there are cameras. I chatted to the security when I was there taking photos of the Rutherford Block that's big blue building. Queen Mary Hospital, in Hanmer Springs, New Zealand is a former residential alcohol and drug treatment hospital. It opened in 1916 to treat returned servicemen from World War I, on the site of a sanatorium built in 1879. From the 1920s to 1960s it treated mental health conditions generally but in the 1970s it became the national specialist addiction and alcohol treatment centre. The hospital closed in November 2003. The Queen Mary Hospital (Former) and Hanmer Springs Thermal Reserve Historic Area was designated as a historic site by Heritage New Zealand in 2004. Within that area three buildings, the Soldiers' Block, Nurses' Home and Chisholm Block, were given Category I protection by Heritage New Zealand in 2005.) #hospital #soldiers #war