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Dundee Women’s Hospital
South Front of the former hospital, photographed in 2018 © H. Richardson On the slopes of Balgay Hill to the west of Dundee sits the former Dundee Women’s Hospital. Since it closed in the 1970s it has been converted into private … Continue reading
Posted in Scottish Hospitals
Tagged Dundee, hospital re-use, Scottish Architecture, suffragettes
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Margate’s Sea Bathing Hospital
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
Posted in English Hospitals
Tagged hospital re-use, Margate, medical history, Sea Bathing
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Dundee Royal Infirmary, now Regents Gardens
Postcard showing the principal south elevation of the Royal Infirmary Dundee Royal Infirmary closed in 1998, commemorative plaques and other items from the infirmary were transferred to Ninewells Hospital which replaced the infirmary as Dundee’s general and teaching hospital. Since … Continue reading
Inverness District Asylum (former Craig Dunain Hospital)
Inverness District Asylum, otherwise known as the Northern Counties Asylum, opened in 1864. Latterly it was renamed Craig Dunain Hospital and treated patients suffering from mental illness until 2000. Since then parts of the building have been converted to housing, while … Continue reading
former Royal Alexandra Infirmary, Paisley
The former Peter Coates Nurses’ Home, now converted to flats, photographed in 2013. This was part of the large complex that was the former Royal Alexandra Infirmary, off Neilston Road in Paisley. © Copyright Thomas Nugent and licensed for reuse under this Creative … Continue reading
Stone House Hospital, Dartford – now The Residence
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
Posted in asylums, English Hospitals
Tagged architecture, asylum, City of London, Dartford, Horace Jones, hospital re-use, J. B. Bunning, Stone House Hospital
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Napsbury Park, formerly Middlesex County Asylum
Napsbury Hospital, photographed in 1992. In the centre is the dining hall, with ward blocks on either side. This leafy residential development near St Albans, within sight of the M25, has been established on the site of Napsbury Hospital, incorporating … Continue reading
Storthes Hall, former West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Postcard of Storthes Hall Asylum, Kirkburton, West Yorkshire when newly built. Reproduced courtesy of Peter Aitkenhead. Storthes Hall was the fourth, and last, pauper lunatic asylum for the West Riding of Yorkshire. The first section, designed as an acute hospital, opened … Continue reading
Belvidere Hospital
Practically no trace now remains of Belvidere Hospital, a large housing estate having been built on the site. The Belvidere once played a key role in protecting the population of Glasgow from the ravages of infectious diseases, including smallpox. The … Continue reading
Bristol Lunatic Asylum, now the Glenside Campus of UWE
Glenside Hospital as it was in 1992 , © H. Richardson For nearly twenty years now the faculty of Health and Applied Sciences of the University of the West of England has occupied the old Bristol Lunatic Asylum. The asylum, latterly … Continue reading
