Spooky hallways dripping with smoke damage, Zimmer frames cluttering the halls and a large stash of unused adult diapers were among some of creepy things seen in photos taken inside a former nursing home.
Nottinghamshire Abbeymoor Nursing Home, in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, closed its doors in 2017 and a fire tore through the building in early 2023. Firefighter crews from across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire tackled the blaze that engulfed the former nursing home in the early hours of February 19 and about half the building was saved. Police later arrested two men, aged 27 and 33, on suspicion of arson.
"It damaged the building badly and at the same time left very little hope for any sort of future for the site," said urban explorer Kyle Urbex who took the photos. "It remains empty and in a state of ruins ever since closing.
The hallway inside the abandoned Nottinghamshire Abbeymoor Nursing Home (mediadrumimages/Kyle Urbex)
An eerie image of a smoke-damaged sink. Two men were arrested in connection with the fire (mediadrumimages/Kyle Urbex)"Going round proved difficult at times. I did uncover one room that was quite sad with a Zimmer frame. A chair and some personal items left inside which made it really quite sad in a way how those in the care home environment must feel day in day out spending all their time in a care home. I quite enjoyed this one and had a good explore that's for sure.
"While the residence in the quiet town of Worksop was in a quiet area, it was adjacent to the railway which caused regular complaints by the elderly residents in the home," Kyle added.
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A bunch of dishes inside a filthy kitchen. The nursing home closed its doors in 2017 (mediadrumimages/Kyle Urbex)
A bed covered in unused adult diapers. The care home suffered extensive damage in the fire (mediadrumimages/Kyle Urbex)Other photos taken inside the home showed abandoned furniture, a smoke-damaged sink and eerie hallways with the floor was covered in debris. More chilling images portrayed a distorted place frozen in time with crockery left out on a dish dryer rack inside a filthy kitchen.
The former nursing home garnered headlines for the wrong reasons in 2007 when great-grandmother Esme Collins was set to be evicted from the home she lived in for more than eight years due to a dispute over payment for her care. While she was relocated to another home 10 miles away, Esme died just six weeks after being evicted.
Esme needed round-the-clock nursing care, suffered from severe osteoporosis and was bed-ridden. She had been paying £162 of her fees of around £400 a week from her pension funds with the balance coming from public funds.
Mervyn Kohler of Help the Aged, who died in 2023, previously said all the "messing around" and moving Esme had not been a "contributory factor" in her death. People like this are fairly frail and vulnerable and depend a great deal on routines and if those get disrupted then clearly that is not conductive towards the sort of stable and caring environment that somebody of that age requires," he added.
“It's a reminder of how we need to improve our game and treat people with dignity. We need a calm and secure environment for people of that age and frailty. We need a new solution to funding social care as a matter of priority."
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