Category Archives: English Hospitals

The Architecture of Isolation

Posted on May 2, 2020 by Harriet Richardson

Recently I wrote a short post on this topic for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain for their website. This is a slightly revised and extended version of that piece. Interior view of NHS Nightingale, London. Photographed on … Continue reading →

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William Goldring and Asylums — The Gardens Trust

Posted on April 25, 2020 by Harriet Richardson

This blog post on asylum landscape design was posted recently on the Gardens Trust site. I sympathise on the difficulties of researching the gardens and grounds of hospitals, it can be very difficult to find much information in the surviving … Continue reading →

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The Hospitals on Islay

Posted on June 2, 2019 by Harriet Richardson

Islay Hospital, Bowmore. View of the ward block and main entrance from the west. Photographed in May 2019, © H. Richardson There have been three hospitals on Islay: a poor law institution that provided medical care for paupers and in … Continue reading →

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Charnwood Forest Convalescent Homes

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Harriet Richardson

As convalescent homes were not strictly speaking medical buildings, and most of the patients sent to convalescence were able to get up during the day, many were established in private houses which required little alteration to fit them to their … Continue reading →

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Bristol Royal Infirmary

Posted on February 4, 2018 by Harriet Richardson

‘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 Harriet Richardson

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 Harriet Richardson

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 Harriet Richardson

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 Harriet Richardson

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 Harriet Richardson

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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