I know this has been done a few times but here's my take on the place as the sun was descending(made for some really creepy shadows)
The History
On Hollin Bank Bolton Road. The site of 8 acres was purchased from J Feilden for £3,200 of which he returned £1,600. The foundation stone was laid on 24th May 1858 by William Pilkington Esq. who gave £2,000 towards the building costs of £25,000 and £100 per year in perpetuity for the support of the institution.
Opened in 1865. In 1884 a new wing was added at a cost of £4,000 and a further addition was made in 1901 costing £1,100 to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
A nurses’ home was built in 1893 at a cost of £6,000. In 1904 a children’s Ward was added and in 1908 extensions were made costing £5,000. The foundation stone for the War Memorial Wing was laid by Mrs Elma Yerburgh in 1924 and opened by her on 16 June 1928, this costing £90,000. Became a NHS hospital in 1948.
A new multi-storey block was opened adjacent to Bolton Road in October 1965. Office: 15 Richmond Terrace, secretary: R Spencer and J Procter (1870); Joseph Eastwood (1878-89); N A Smith (1915-30); Tom Dewhurst (1935-51); matron: Miss Whitton (1870); Miss L C Gibbon (1930); Miss E Townsend (1935-48). Cottontown.org