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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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Greenock’s lost hospitals
Greenock in the mid-eighteenth century, depicted on Roy’s map of the Highlands. Reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland The dark, austere tower block that is Inverclyde Hospital opened in 1979. It superseded the Greenock Royal Infirmary, Eye … Continue reading
Book Review: The Hospitals of Skye
I was delighted to receive three booklets this week from an ongoing series produced by the History of Highland Hospitals project set up in 2008. The first to be published was The Hospitals of Skye in 2011. Written by Jim Leslie and … Continue reading
Building Bedlam again – taking a leap forward to Monks Orchard
Entrance gates to Bethlem Hospital, 1896 from The Queen’s London : a Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks and Scenery of the Great Metropolis (Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons) Bethlem Hospital remained in St George’s Fields, Southwark from … Continue reading
Posted in asylums, English Hospitals, European Hospitals, mental hospital, Scottish Hospitals
Tagged Altscherbitz, asylum, Bedlam, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Booth's Maps, C. E. Elcock, colony plan, hospital chapels, medical history, Ralph Maynard Smith, Runwell Hospital, Scottish Architecture
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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
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Tagged asylum, Bedlam, history, Hogarth, Imperial War Museum, London, madness, medical history, Robert Hooke
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King Edward VII Estate: Midhurst Sanatorium
Following on from the post featuring Midhurst Sanatorium chapel, I wanted to look at the main Sanatorium building. It is one of the most important former sanatoria in England and one of the most attractive. Latterly the King Edward VII … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Charles Holden, Edward VII, H. Percy Adams, medical history, sanatorium
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Dry January? Head for a Hydro! A brief look at Victorian hydropathic establishments in Scotland
After the feasting and convivial drinking over Christmas and the New Year, a dry January has become increasingly common. The adverse effects of alcohol on our health are widely known and understood today, as are the benefits of keeping well … Continue reading
Lunatic at Large: an escaped patient from Ayr District Asylum
The former Ayr District Asylum, now Ailsa Hospital photographed in 2008. The building to the left is one of the villas built in 1899 © Copyright Mary and Angus Hogg and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence ‘Lunatic at Large’ was the sensational headline in … Continue reading
Posted in Scottish Hospitals
Tagged Ailsa Hospital, asylum, Ayrshire, medical history, mental health
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Hospitals for Incurables: the former Longmore Hospital, Edinburgh
Historic Scotland Offices in the former Longmore Hospital which closed in 1991 © Copyright kim traynor and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence Separate hospitals for incurables began to be established in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century and were welcomed by … Continue reading
