Merseyside

BEBINGTON

Clatterbridge Hospital SJ 318 822 Historic England Building Files 102402 (North Site, former Wirral Joint Fever Hospital) and 102401 (South Site, former Wirral Union Workhouse)

Clatterbridge Workhouse and infectious diseases hospital, OS 25-inch map revised 1897, reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland, CC-BY (NLS)

Clatterbridge Hospital is now a large sprawling site, largely composed of post-war NHS hospital buildings. None of the original workhouse survives, but there was at least one block remaining of infectious diseases hospital in 2023 – to the south of St John’s Hospice in the north-east corner of the site. The south range of Willow House is also of pre-war date – possibly late 1920s or early ’30s, as is Elm House, presumably built as the nurses’ home.

Clatterbridge Workhouse and infectious diseases’ hospital, 25-inch OS map revised 1908, CC-BY (NLS)

Clatterbridge Workhouse was built in 1836-7 for the Wirral Union. William Cole was the architect, who also designed the workhouse for Winchester. A separate infirmary and a chapel were built in the 1880s-90s, to the north-east of the main workhouse range, and further wing was added along with various other ancillary blocks on the site between 1900 and 1912. The isolation hospital was built in 1891, originally with just 16 beds. The 1899 OS map shows what appears to be two ward blocks, an admin block, lodge, and an ancillary building that most likely housed ambulance, disinfector and mortuary. A larger ward block was added to the north of this group in the early 1900s (the surviving wing to the south of St John’s Hospice). Four further detached ward blocks and a nurses’ home had been added by the mid-1930s. Most of these buildings were still standing in the early 1990s. (See Historic England Archives for record photography of the site.)

Clatterbridge General Hospital and infectious diseases hospital from the 1936 revised OS map, CC-BY (NLS)

After the Local Government Act of 1929 the workhouse passed to Cheshire County Council, and developed as a general hospital. It may well have been the County Council that built the nurses’ home and hospital block that forms Willow House. During the Second World War a large hutted annexe was built to the west of the former workhouse buildings as part of the war-time Emergency Medical Service. Under the NHS the two hospitals combined, but part of the EMS hutted hospital seems to have become a T. A. Centre.

Clatterbridge Hospital, OS map published in 1965 showing the EMS hutted annexe to the west CC-BY (NLS)

There are currently plans to redevelop parts of the site as a residential garden village which would entail the demolition of ‘existing dormant structures’ – most of those occupying the centre of the site, but retaining Willow House (see Aspinall Verdi development plan).

Port Sunlight Cottage Hospital (now Sunlight Lodge Nursing Home) SJ 338 848 102482

BIRKENHEAD

Birkenhead and Wirral Children’s Hospital (Wirral Hospital and Dispensary for Sick Children) SJ 312 881 102609

Birkenhead General Hospital (Birkenhead Borough Hospital) SJ 313 893 102510

Birkenhead Maternity Hospital SJ 320 880 102594

St Catherine’s Hospital (Birkenhead Union Workhouse) SJ 318 875 102406

St James’s Hospital (Birkenhead CB Infectious Diseases Hospital) SJ 293 897 102711

FORMBY

Shaftesbury House SD 298 064 102389

HAYDOCK

Haydock Cottage Hospital SJ 560 960 102524

HESWALL

Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital (Royal Liverpool Country Hospital for Children) SJ 260 820 102593

HOYLAKE

Hoylake Cottage Hospital Trust (Hoylake and West Kirby Queen Victoria Memorial Cottage Hospital) SJ 223 897 102483

LIVERPOOL

Bootle Royal Borough Hospital (Bootle Borough Hospital) SJ 336 948 102388

Broadgreen Hospital (Highfield Infirmary; Highfield Sanatorium) SJ 404 909 102382

Brownlow Hill Infirmary (Liverpool Parish Workhouse) SJ 357 902 100746

City Hospital North (Netherfield Institution for Infectious Diseases; Netherfield Road Hospital) SJ 353 924 102707

David Lewis Northern Hospital SJ 339 911 102478

Dental Hospital, Pembroke Place SJ 340 900 102591

Fazakerley Hospital, North Site (City Hospital) SJ 380 972 102379

Fazakerley Hospital, South Site (Fazakerley Sanatorium; Aintree Hospital) SJ 380 969 102380

Hahnemann Hospital (now Hahnemann Building) SJ 355 897 102397

Hospital for Cancer and Skin Diseases (The Liverpool Radium Institute; now Josephine Butler House, North Site) SJ 356 898 102398

Hospital for Cancer and Skin Diseases (Lying-In Hospital and Dispensary; now Josephine Butler House, South Site) SJ 356 898 102252

Hospital for Consumption SJ 354 900 102396

Liverpool Central Home for District Nurses SJ 358 892 102399

Liverpool Convalescent Home, High Street, Woolton SJ 422 863 BF102525. Large convalescent home designed by Thomas Worthington between 1867 and 1873. Built in the Gothic Revival style with beds for 80-100 patients. E-plan building with 3-storey wings, built using red brick, blue brick, ashlar and slate. It was being used as a nurses hostel by 1983.

Liverpool Dental Hospital, Mount Pleasant (Liverpool Dispensary for Diseases of the Teeth) SJ 352 901 102390

Liverpool Eye and Ear and Throat Infirmary (Liverpool Eye and Ear Infirmary) SJ 356 898 102248

Liverpool Fever Hospital SJ 357 902 102708

Liverpool Hospital for Women SJ 340 900 102608

Liverpool Infirmary SJ 357 904 102377

Liverpool Lock Hospital SJ 340 900 102606

Liverpool Lunatic Asylum SJ 340 900 102616

Liverpool Maternity Hospital SJ 357 900 102378

Liverpool Northern Hospital, Great Howard Street SJ 338 912 102479

Liverpool Northern Hospital, Leeds Street SJ 337 916 102480

Liverpool Royal Infirmary SJ 358 905 35826

Liverpool Royal Lunatic Asylum SJ 340 900 102615

Lying-in Hospital SJ 357 903 102366

Mill Road Maternity Hospital (West Derby Union Workhouse) SJ 363 915 102391

Mossley Hill Hospital (Mossley Hill Ministry of Pensions Hospital) SJ 385 875 102517

Olive Mount Hospital (Olive Mount Children’s Convalescent Hospital; Olive Mount Children’s Hospital) SJ 395 898 102522

Park Hill Hospital (Park Hill House; Liverpool Temporary Infectious Diseases Hospital) SJ 359 872 102712

Rathbone Hospital (City Hospital East) SJ 393 905 102392

Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, Eaton Road SJ 404 919 102387

Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, Myrtle Street (Liverpool Infirmary for Children; Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, City Branch) SJ 357 898 102249

Royal Southern Hospital (Southern Hospital) SJ 350 888 102476

St Paul’s Eye Hospital SJ 338 909 102250

Seaforth Barracks Hospital SJ 327 973 102384

Sefton General Hospital (Toxteth Park Union Workhouse) SJ 378 888 102393

Sir Alfred Jones Memorial Hospital SJ 404 845 102394

Slater Street Infirmary (now Liverpool Palace) SJ 349 900 69328

Southern Hospital (Southern and Toxteth Hospital) SJ 349 392 102477

Stanley Park Hospital (Stanley Park Hospital for the Diseases of die Chest and Women) SJ 347 933 102607

Tuebrook Villa Mental Hospital (Tuebrook Villa) SJ 380 910 102595

Women’s Hospital (Liverpool Samaritan Hospital for Women) SJ 358 897 102253

Walton Hospital (West Derby Union Workhouse) SJ 358 954 102381

MAGHULL

Maghull Homes SD 369 011 102400

SOUTHPORT

North of England Children’s Sanatorium, Hawkshead Road SD 347 174 BF102523. Three storey U-shaped convalescent home for children built in the Gothic style 1875-78 to designs by Mellor and Sutton of Southport. Replaced two earlier homes in School Street and Hawkshead Street. Extensions in 1889 and 1892. Closed in 1977.

Promenade Hospital, Southport Convalescent Hospital,  SD 338 179 102251

Southport Promenade Hospital, photographed in 2011, © Copyright David Dixon and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

Large convalescent home, begun in 1852. It became the Promenade Hospital under the NHS. It closed in 1990 and was subsequently converted into luxury apartments known as the Marine Gate Mansions.

Fleetwood Road Hospital (Homoeopathic Cottage Hospital) SD 353 192 102521

Southport General Infirmary SD 349 162 102385

Southport General Infirmary, North-East Site (Christiana Hartley Maternity Hospital) SD 349 163  102386

ST HELENS

Cowley Hill Hospital (The Hollies) SJ 510 950 102592

Newton Cottage Hospital (Newton War Memorial Hospital) SJ 577 944

Newton War Memorial Hospital, © David Long (WMR-62542)

Hospital built as a war memorial after the First World War in 1923-5. The main building was a tall two-storey, five-bay largely square block of red brick with stone dressings in a faintly Queen Anne style with classical door surround and tall key stones to the windows. A central gable on the front suggests a pediment supported on stripy pilasters. The central window in the gable, above the door, bears the hospital date and name: ‘1924 Newton in Makerfield War Memorial Hospital’.

Ceremony of laying the foundation stone, 15 September 1923 © Newton and Earlestown Community Group (WMR-62542)

The hospital transferred to the NHS in 1948 when it became a surgical unit in association with the former isolation hospital near by which formed a physiotherapy and orthopaedic unit. Both were superseded by the new community hospital built on the site of the isolation hospital.

Detail of lettering above the main entrance, © David Long (WMR-62542)

The War Memorial Hospital was still functioning around 2009 as a community hospital, although in 2008 the new community hospital had been opened. By 2017 had become ‘Sims House’ but had closed by 2019. The building was being converted to housing in 2022. [refs: Imperial War Museum, war memorials register]

Newton Community Hospital The design statement for the planning application submitted in 2006 was put together by Gilling Dod architects. They designed a roughly butterfly-plan building of two storeys, the sun-trapping bent range facing west, and the main entrance on the east side.

Newton in Makerfield Isolation Hospital (Newton Cottage Hospital, physiotherapy and orthopaedic unit) SJ 578 945 demolished

Newton Isolation Hospital and War Memorial Hospital, OS map revised in 1926 CC-BY (NLS)

Isolation hospital built around 1912. Tayleur House added in the 1980s. The site was cleared to make way for a new community hospital in about 2006-7.

Providence Hospital, Tolver Street SJ 515 955

Providence Free Hospital marked on the 25-inch OS map revised in 1891, when Tolver Street and the surrounding roads were being laid out. CC-BY (NLS)
Providence Hospital photographed in 2009 by Gary Rogers from Geograph

The hospital was founded in 1882 by the Sisters of the Mother of God. It took in wounded military personnel during the First World War, and after the Second World War passed to the National Health Service. It closed in the 1980s. It was latterly occupied by Arena Housing.

Providence Hospital from the 1926 OS map, CC-BY (NLS)

Rainhill Hospital (Third Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum; West Derby Lunatic Asylum) SJ 493 928 102009

St Helens Hospital (St Helens Cottage Hospital) SJ 522 940 102481

St Helens Hospital and the borough sanatorium, from the 25-inch OS map revised in 1926 CC-BY (NLS)

WALLASEY

Leasowe Hospital (Leasowe Hospital for Crippled Children) SJ 262 915 102710

Manor House Hospital (Liverpool Homes for Aged Mariners and Widows of Seamen; John Davies Memorial Infirmary for Aged Mariners) SJ 315 927 102508

New Brighton Convalescent Home for Women and Children, see History of Wallasey

Victoria Central Hospital SJ 309 917 102405

Victoria Central Hospital, North-East Site (Highfield; Highfield Maternity Hospital) SJ 306 916 102404

Victoria Central Hospital, South-West Site (Mill Lane Hospital) SJ 306 915 102403

Victoria Cottage Hospital (Seacombe Cottage Hospital) SJ 320 880 102596

Wallasey Cottage Hospital SJ 296 925 102484

WHISTON

Whiston Hospital (Prescot Union Workhouse; Whiston PLI) SJ 479 919 100741

WIRRAL

Heswall Sanatorium (West Derby Union, Liverpool Parish and Toxteth Park Township Joint Sanatorium; Cleaver Sanatorium) SJ 257 824 102709