Editing Cookridge (section)

==Cookridge Hospital==
[[File:Cookridge Hospital 19 Sep 2017 1.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Cookridge Hospital Main Building]]
[[File:Lighthouse School Leeds 27 Oct 2017.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Former Robert Arthington Hospital building, now a school]]
'''Cookridge Hospital''' opened in 1869 as a 'Hospital for the Convalescent Poor in Leeds'.<ref name=Burt>Steven Burt & Kevin Grady (2002) ''The Illustrated History of Leeds'', 2nd edn (Breedon Books, Derby) {{ISBN|185983 316 0}}</ref> It was built in a secluded area by clearing away part of [[Ireland Wood]], with a new road, Hospital Lane from Otley Old Road. The main building and the lodge, designed by [[Richard Norman Shaw|Norman Shaw]] in 1868, are Grade II [[listed building]]s.<ref name=Godward>Brian Godward (2004) The Changing Face of Leeds (Sutton Publishing, Stroud) {{ISBN|0-7509-3413-1}}</ref>  A further wing was added in 1893, the ''Edward Jackson Memorial Ward''. In 1888 a second set of buildings were opened, the ''Ida Hospital'', named in memory of Ida North, by her father John North. A further similar set of buildings were opened in 1905 named after the benefactor as ''Robert Arthington Hospital''.<ref name=LeodisIda>{{cite web |url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002820_75172061 |title=Cookridge Hospitals, Ida and Robert Arthington |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Leodis |accessdate=20 September 2017 }}</ref>

The buildings mainly functioned as longer-term convalescent facilities for patients treated in other Leeds hospitals, and were used for the care of wounded servicemen during both World Wars.<ref name=LeodisC>{{cite web |url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2011427_172073|title=Cookridge Convalescent Hospital, postcard|author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Leodis |accessdate=20 September 2017 }}</ref>  The whole complex was taken over by the Government in 1939 and part used as a maternity hospital until 1942.  In 1952 it became part of the NHS.<ref name=Story>{{cite book |author=<!--Various writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=The Story of a Cancer Hospital – Cookridge Hospital 1972–2006 |year=2006 |publisher=Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |isbn=978-0-85316-258-2}}</ref>  A 'High Energy Radiation Centre', providing treatment of tumours opened in 1956.<ref name=Leodis56>{{cite web |url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=201372_174562|title=Cookridge Hospital, Matron, Miss Elsie Jackson outside the laboratory and Dual-purpose Radiocobalt Unit|author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Leodis |accessdate=20 September 2017 }}</ref> From then on it developed into a major regional centre for [[radiotherapy]], with the Ida and Robert Arthington Hospitals becoming home to the Yorkshire Regional Cancer Organization in 1994.<ref name=Story/>

In 2007 it closed and all facilities were transferred to the [[St James's University Hospital, Leeds|St James's]] Oncology Unit (Bexley Wing) of [[Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/news/newsitem.php?newsID=285 |title=End of an era as final services transfer from Cookridge Hospital to brand new £220M cancer centre |author=Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |accessdate=7 April 2008 |date=14 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110927052405/http://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/news/newsitem.php?newsID=285 |archive-date=27 September 2011  }}</ref>
  
Much of the site was used for housing from 2010, with the listed building being retained for future development.<ref name=YEP2010>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Former Leeds hospital site sold for homes |url=http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/former-leeds-hospital-site-sold-for-homes-1-2236851 |work=Yorkshire Evening Post |date=8 January 2010 |accessdate=20 September 2017 }}</ref> The Robert Arthington Hospital was refurbished and opened in 2015 as the Lighthouse School for pupils with [[Autism spectrum|autistic spectrum]] conditions.<ref name=Lighthouse>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Specialist Lighthouse School opens after £2.1m investment|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/specialist-lighthouse-school-opens-after-2-1m-investment-1-7589963 |work=Yorkshire Post |date=25 November 2015|accessdate=20 September 2017}}</ref>