Category Archives: English Hospitals

Bristol Royal Infirmary

Posted on February 4, 2018 by

‘A Perspective View and Plans of the Charitable Infirmary at Bristol as it now is with the addition of two intended wings’ 1742. Image reproduced under licence CC BY 4.0 from the Wellcome Collection The old Royal Infirmary at Bristol was one … Continue reading →

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Margate’s Sea Bathing Hospital

Posted on December 27, 2017 by

Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate. Photographed in 2017 © H. Richardson Earlier this year I spent a wonderful weekend in Margate and was fortunate to be staying just around the corner from the former Sea Bathing Hospital. This was a building … Continue reading →

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Two London hospitals – St Stephen’s and the Chelsea Westminster

Posted on October 19, 2017 by

I’m starting this week’s post with a few pictures by our new best friend Bill Figg who sometimes strayed as far north as the Fulham Road Although this view is about 25 years years old I still remember St Stephen’s … Continue reading →

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Hospitals Investigator 11 revised

Posted on May 6, 2017 by

In February 1993, Robert Taylor from the Cambridge team of the RCHME Hospitals Project, produced his eleventh newsletter. Here are snippets on prefabricated hospitals by Humphreys, early prison infirmaries, provision of accommodation for tuberculosis in workhouses, the Metropolitan Asylums Board, … Continue reading →

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Grantham Hospital

Posted on November 13, 2016 by

Grantham & District Hospital, photographed in 2009, the redundant Victorian building. © Copyright Richard Croft and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence The future of this fine old building is under threat. It has stood empty for many years and there are … Continue reading →

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Stone House Hospital, Dartford – now The Residence

Posted on October 9, 2016 by

Former Stone House Hospital photographed in 2005. The main range of the former hospital is now known as The Residence.  © Copyright Glyn Baker and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence A short hop from the Bluewater shopping centre is the … Continue reading →

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Napsbury Park, formerly Middlesex County Asylum

Posted on September 20, 2016 by

Napsbury Hospital, photographed in 1992. In the centre is the dining hall, with ward blocks on either side. This leafy residential development near St Albans, within sight of the M25, has been established on the site of Napsbury Hospital, incorporating … Continue reading →

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