Tag Archives: General Hospitals

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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Vale of Leven Hospital, the first new NHS hospital in Britain

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Harriet Richardson

Postcard of Vale of Leven Hospital from the 1970s Vale of Leven Hospital, at Alexandria in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, was the first new hospital to be completed in Britain under the National Health Service at a cost of  around £1 million. It … Continue reading →

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