An urban explorer has given an insight into a once "grand" building with a dark history.
Built in the 1850s, Mossley Manor Care Home in Mossley Hill was forced to close back in 2015 after inspectors uncovered a string of failures. Stunned inspectors discovered some staff members with criminal convictions were working unchecked.
Two millionaire brothers, who owned the home, also failed to immediately inform watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) about the deaths of 10 residents. But as the historical building awaits its future fate, urban explorer Elliot Ward took viewers on a journey inside the building, before it is potentially lost forever.
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Elliot, from Halewood, shared the video on his YouTube channel, Nothing But Elliot, sharing just the clips he filmed over "spooky music". He told the ECHO: "This video I put together more for the spook factor, adding music and sounds on time with what's happening on screen.
"I thought it would be fun for the time of year and to make a change from the usual talking over the video and just let people view and feel what it's like to be alone in an abandoned building. Allowing the imagination to run wild."
The video takes viewers through the rooms of the once grand building which showed collapsed ceilings, smashed windows, huge piles of rubbish, and equipment just left abandoned in hallways and rooms. A piano was also spotted, rotting, in one of the 43-rooms.
Discarded books, left unread, were scattered on old chairs, including E.L Doctorow's The Waterworks. Broken sinks and rotting plasters prevalent.
Before it closed, inside Mossley Manor, on North Mossley Hill Road, the smell was so overpowering that inspectors were left gagging and had to step outside after seeing unwashed, unkempt residents. One incontinent resident had not had a bath or shower for a month before the inspection.
Communal toilets were found with no soap, towels or plastic bags, rooms containing mouldy cups, and staff heating water on stoves as there was no hot water in the building.
Visiting on a Friday night, in the run up to Halloween, Elliot said it was "sad" to see the building fall into such disrepair with its once "amazing" stained glass windows and staircase now a "wreck". He added: "I feel the building has a lot of historical value. It was a grand manor back in its time. This place did house John Lennon's mum at one point.
"It was originally called Elmswood House built in the 1850s. Again the building is set for demolition so there's not much more that can be done for the place. With many fires in the place leaving it open to the elements, it has pretty much set its fate to be demolished for new apartments."
Elliot, whose hobby is an urban explorer/paranormal investigator along with photography, regularly updates his YouTube channel with an insight into historical and abandoned buildings right across Merseyside. Others include St Gabriel's Covent, more can be found on his channel here.
Entering a privately owned property/site is considered trespassing which is a civil matter in the UK.
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