Built in 1894-95 the hospital designed by architect George Temple-Poole was built to accommodate the ever growing number of ill prospectors from the Goldfields.
It ceased to operate as a hospital in 1963.
In 1976 the National Trust acquired the buildings - in the next 20 years it was used by the YHA. The complex was sold in 1998 to a private concern.
The hospital still has a fine shingle roof. (. . . and some say a ghost ?)
- what's going to be its future . . ?
I used to live in York Western Australia some years ago. While i was there i heard some pretty scary things about it. The hospital is a tourist attraction and there used to be school camps there. The kids used to camp in there with the teachers as a camp and they never used to last the night. Kids and all would run out screaming saying they saw things and the noises that they heard..
When i was in York i used to deliver the gas bottles to houses as the place still has the large gas bottles. One day i was asked to go to the hospital to deliver two gas bottles. When i got there i was talking to an elderly lady for about an hour and she was telling me about the place and its history which i thought was really interesting. When i got back to work i told them about it and my boss told me that there was no old lady there. I described her to him and then was shown a pic of her and was told that she died there about 100 years earlier.
As you can guess, it made my skin hold up, but i never felt a threat from her, she was so nice..
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