1 Site of isolation hospital marked on OS map of 1922.
The site of an isolation hospital which was built during the Imperial period. The site is located 100m north of Hill Crest Lodge. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1922.
Here – as promised on our Twitter ‘Silver Takeover’ last week – are some photos of the early buildings of St Cross Hospital in Rugby.
Nursing home precursor of St Cross
A ...
Central Hospital was largely self-sufficient, with its own fire engine, blacksmith, carpenter, kitchen, sports pitches, chapel, nurses’ home and so on. Huge boilers provided heating and hot water for the ...
A small private lunatic asylum was founded in Knowle in 1866 by Miss Ann Darke; in 1867 it was licensed for 20 female private patients.1 The asylum was located in ...