Anyway, they're useful again, since they hint to the original names of parts of the hospital. So this little section is devoted to those signs - and the little bits of information they still have to share.

Anyway, the bottom crossroads is the perimeter path. The top left spur is the service road at the back of the hospital, past the gates to the tower, whilst the right top spur is in that general area, but now long overgrown. Got it?

OK, the we knew about Nightingale Ward (although no-one has explored it), but it's good to have definitive names for the Building Department and Engineering Department - one in the tower courtyard and one down the service road. The Fire Station was also down the service road (now demolished) whilst the Main Stores and Kitchens were at the terminus of the service road.

The path to Mapother, the Laundry and Mortuary is long overgrown and lost. It probably circled around the back of the tower courtyard to the Mortuary and then the visitor could keep walking to Mapother, or turn left to get to the back of the Laundry. People probably got very lost trying to find these.

Wards P-Z were located by taking the short drive up the hill along a tarmaced track. Now barred by the perimeter fence.

The bottom left spur yields some surprises. The Staff Club has long since burnt down, but I have no idea where Industrial Therapy is - and it does sound rather brute force. What I've been calling The Main Hall is The Recreation Hall - but it's nice to see directions to the Garden House and the Cottage Hospital - how quaint! Actually the Garden House is the two storey house by the spur to the Nurses' Home (which everyone ignores), whilst the Cottage Hospital is the olde worlde name for the Secure Unit.

The final surprise is the directions to the right of the Domestic Block - we'd been calling it the Nurses' Home - which it was - but at least calling it the Domestic Block doesn't confuse it with the Nurses' Home to the south of the hospital.