Teddy Bears Day Nursery at St John’s Asylum, Lincoln

The Nursery at St John’s Asylum is a well preserved section of the hospital with minimal decay and leftover toys and other items, and even kids paintings on the walls.

 UK Bracebridge Heath, Lincoln, UK

History

The Teddy Bears Day Nursery opened in a small part of St John’s Asylum in Bracebridge Health, long after the building ceased to be used as a hospital. St John’s Nursery was refurbished prior to its opening, and was in use until 2010 when the nursery moved to another site.

The much more recent closure means the level of decay is minimal and this section has been well preserved due to it being notoriously difficult to gain access to. There are plenty of items left over including high-chairs, baby enclosures and lots of toys.  Paintings and pictures produced by the children still hang on the walls. Entering the nursery after exploring the rest of the crumbling asylum is like stepping into another world!

St Jonh’s Asylum, the Lincolnshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum
St John's Asylum - Doctors Accommodation External

Teddy Bears Day Nursery is part of St John’s Asylum.

Please check out the separate report on St John’s Asylum for full details and photos of the rest of the hospital.

Go to St John’s Asylum Report

 

St John's Nursery - High Chairs and the Alphabet Wall
St John’s Nursery – High Chairs and the Alphabet Wall
St John's Nursery - General View
St John’s Nursery – General View
St John's Nursery - Coat Hooks
St John’s Nursery – Coat Hooks
St John's Nursery - Kids Books
St John’s Nursery – Kids Books
St John's Nursery - Window Paintings
St John’s Nursery – Window Paintings
St John's Nursery - Say Cheese!
St John’s Nursery – Say Cheese!
St John's Nursery - Toys
St John’s Nursery – Toys
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11 thoughts on Teddy Bears Day Nursery at St John’s Asylum, Lincoln

  1. I did work placement at teddy bears whilst at college and it is most definitely haunted. I’m a complete sceptic but when all the babies were asleep in their cots in the sleep room, a room that had no toys, a musical toy started playing through the baby monitor. When I went through, nothing there, no song and all babies asleep. It was a very creepy place. Even in the daytime.

  2. I actually went out with one of the nurses there when it still an asylum. There were some real suffers from mental health but most up setting were the ladies (girls ) when they entered the asylum) were institutionalised because of having a child outside of wed lock. It was a scary place with inmates as you didn’t when the inmates would start an unprovoked attack.

    The girl I went out with came back to the nurse’s home (which was on site and is now residential accommodation (If only they knew what went on in there, but that’s another story) she came back and showed me the marks from an attack of a female in patient the 5 nail/claw marks started above her left breast and finished below her right breast.

    Very deep nail gouge’s from the attack and she never had an idea it was going to happen. You had to watch your back as the place as it was filled a lot of sad tortured sole’s.

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