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Repton Park, formerly Claybury Hospital
Aerial view of Claybury, undated. (posted on flickr by Jeroen Komen and licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0) Repton Park at Woodford Bridge in Essex is a large housing estate that has been created on the site of the former Claybury … Continue reading
Posted in asylums, English Hospitals
Tagged architecture, asylum, heritage, historic photographs, history, hospital, London
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The Hospitals Investigator 4
Issue 4 of Robert Taylor’s Hospitals Investigator was circulated in July 1992 and in his editorial he wrote that the theme for this issue would be lunacy, in particular, baths and fire precautions. It concluded with a report on the … Continue reading
Huntin’ Shootin’ and Fishin’ at an upper-crust, prefab sanatorium
In the third edition of Rufenacht Walters’ Sanatoria for Consumptives published in 1905 is an account of Alderney Manor Sanatorium and the photograph above of the patients’ accommodation. This type of simple prefabricated timber and corrugated iron structure were commonly used for small … Continue reading
Posted in English Hospitals, sanatoria
Tagged architecture, history, hospital, infectious diseases hospital
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Pine Trees
The subject of pine trees formed a digression in the second issue of the Hospitals Investigator, and it put me in mind of earlier research that I had done in Scotland where Sanatoria were set amongst pines so that the patients … Continue reading
The Hospitals Investigator 3
Isolation Hospitals Issue number three of the Hospitals Investigator was produced by Robert Taylor in April 1992 and was largely devoted to the subject of isolation hospitals, and more particularly the model plans published by the Local Government Board from … Continue reading
Marianbad
I bought this postcard on ebay the other week, and ever since have been footling about on the internet trying to find out something of the buildings shown here. Marianbad, or Mariánské Lázně, is in the Czech Republic, and was a … Continue reading
Posted in European Hospitals, Spas, Specialist Hospitals
Tagged architecture, Bavaria, Edward VII, heritage, medical history, Rococo, Spa, William Burges
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Moorhaven Village, Devon, (formerly Plymouth Borough Asylum)
Moorhaven Hospital by Nick photographed in July 2012, detail of the water tower. Image is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Via twitter, an article caught my eye that appeared in The Telegraph on the former Plymouth Borough Asylum, latterly Moorhaven Hospital and now … Continue reading
Posted in asylums, English Hospitals
Tagged architecture, asylum, conservation, heritage, history
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Stratheden Hospital
Stratheden Hospital from the south, photographed in October 2014 by MacKlly (image reproduced under CC0 1.0 Universal) Stratheden Hospital is administered by NHS Fife as a community hospital caring for patients with mental health issues. Most of the patients’ accommodation … Continue reading
Posted in asylum, Scottish Hospitals
Tagged architecture, asylum, heritage, history, hospital, Scottish Architecture
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King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Perth, Western Australia
The original home of the King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Perth, in a former Industrial School designed in the ‘Federation Free Style’ by Robert Haddon (c) State Library of Western Australia This caught my eye earlier in the week, a … Continue reading
former Murthly Hospital, Perthshire
MURTHLY HOSPITAL Built as the Perth District Asylum, it was designed by Edward & Robertson, of Dundee and opened in 1864. It was the second district asylum to open in Scotland. Five architects submitted plans from which the Dundee architects were chosen. … Continue reading
Posted in asylum, mental hospital, Scottish Hospitals
Tagged architecture, asylum, heritage, history, hospital, municipal hospital, Scottish Architecture
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