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Building Bedlam – Bethlem Royal Hospital’s early incarnations
From City fringe to St George’s Fields The dome of the Imperial War Museum, formerly Bethlem Hospital, photographed in January 2014 Visitors to the Imperial War Museum south London may easily be unaware that they are walking through the remains … Continue reading
Posted in asylums, English Hospitals
Tagged asylum, Bedlam, history, Hogarth, Imperial War Museum, London, madness, medical history, Robert Hooke
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The Hospitals Investigator 6
October 1992 brought forth the sixth newsletter from the Cambridge team of the RCHME Hospitals Project. It included short pieces on mortuaries and asylum farms, and accounts of the Victoria Cottage Hospital, Wimborne, Dorset, with thoughts on holiday closures of hospitals. There … Continue reading
Doecker portable hospitals
In the Hospitals Investigator number 5 the following list of suppliers of temporary hospital buildings was given: Humphrey’s of Knightsbridge; Boulton and Paul of Norwich; Portable Building Company of Manchester; Hygienic Constructions and Portable Buildings Ltd; Wire Wove Roofing Company of London; G. W. Beattie … Continue reading
Posted in architectural plans, Temporary Hospitals
Tagged history, hospital, medical history, temporary buildings
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The Hospitals Investigator 5
August 1992 saw the production of newsletter number five from the RCHME Cambridge office. There are snippets here about sanitary facilities – water closets and baths – and and more on temporary buildings. There are also useful indexes to information … Continue reading
Atkinson Morley Hospital, now Wimbledon Hill Park
We visited the former Atkinson Morley Hospital in 1992 as part of the RCHME Hospitals Project. It was then still functioning as an acute hospital, specialising in brain surgery. The hospital closed in 2003 and remained empty and decaying for … Continue reading
former Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, now Quartermile
The present Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh was built in 1996-2002 as a PFI project, to designs by Keppie Design of Glasgow on a large green-field site south-east of the city, close to the A7 at Little France, by Craigmillar Castle, … Continue reading
Posted in Scottish Hospitals
Tagged architecture, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, heritage, history, hospital, Lauriston Place, medical history, re-use
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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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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
