Old Hospital Pictures.

silverstealth · Apr 6, 2008

These are all postcards I have recently aquired

Cambridge Hospital Aldershot

Mens Ward St John And St Elizabeth?

St Saviour Hospital Chapel Nw, what an amazing Chapel

North Middlesex

Bexely Mental Hospital?

Beaufort Hospital?

Bolingbroke Hospital?

Broomfield Hospital ?

Greenwich Hospital

Royal West?

lilli · Apr 6, 2008

Broomfield was a TB hospital, hence the butterfly design to the wards for natural daylight IIRC and Beaufort war hospital was also known as Fishponds asylum in Bristol all gone now thou

I have the almost same postcard of CMH :mrgreen:

worldoftheshadows · Apr 6, 2008

Interesting photos there

Broomfields a place i was interested in a few years back - its in essex & i think most of the 30's buildings have been demolished now http://www.meht.nhs.uk/trust/historybroomfield.htm has some interesting photos.

Dave
(think we met in HR's admin a few months back)

MD · Apr 6, 2008

nice postcards mate
love the look of Broomfield Hospital
id love to have seen that

silverstealth · Apr 8, 2008

worldoftheshadows said:
Interesting photos there

Broomfields a place i was interested in a few years back - its in essex & i think most of the 30's buildings have been demolished now http://www.meht.nhs.uk/trust/historybroomfield.htm has some interesting photos.

Dave
(think we met in HR's admin a few months back)

Hi Dave, was it round by the kitchens in the red corridor..

diluted · Apr 8, 2008

silverstealth said:
These are all postcards I have recently aquired

ruddy hell, is that the hospital where they cloned hitler?

worldoftheshadows · Apr 8, 2008

silverstealth said:
Hi Dave, was it round by the kitchens in the red corridor..

no in the main admin corridor you'd just come out the toilets - must have been december i think & you (if it was you) were with phil.d Myself & RM were just heading towards the tower. I was the dodgy fecker with long hair and a donkey jacket, Spoke to you both again on the way out by the corridor with the stairwell & again in the smoke damaged ward near engineering.

Anyways - nice to see the historical postcards The one of the cambridge military hosp' ward is pretty interesting.

Dave

silverstealth · Apr 8, 2008

worldoftheshadows said:
no in the main admin corridor you'd just come out the toilets - must have been december i think & you (if it was you) were with phil.d Myself & RM were just heading towards the tower. I was the dodgy fecker with long hair and a donkey jacket, Spoke to you both again on the way out by the corridor with the stairwell & again in the smoke damaged ward near engineering.

Anyways - nice to see the historical postcards The one of the cambridge military hosp' ward is pretty interesting.

Dave

Ah yes,,, you was the bloke with the crow bar... only Joking :lol:

If your ever up there again give me a shout, I won't be with phil d though.

silverstealth · Apr 11, 2008

Bethnal Green Infirmary

German Hospital.

Harefield Hospital

Nurses Home Plastow

Royal Herbert Hospital

Mystery Ward

Mens Entrance All Saints Hospital Eastbourne.

My Favourite, The Ghost of Christmas Past, Unknown Location

boxerheaven · Apr 11, 2008

interesting postcards father christmas in the last one looks very scary

Foxylady · Apr 11, 2008

Fabulous postcards, Silverstealth. It's amazed me how light and full of flowers the wards were. I didn't expect to see that.
Cheers

redrum · Apr 12, 2008

silverstealth, hope you don't mind me adding a couple of pictures to your thread that i think may be of common ground...............

Womens Infirmary ward, Prestwich mental hospital,Lancashire.

Colney Hatch, groundplan and etching.

Pete · Apr 12, 2008

Shenley, Lancashire?

redrum · Apr 12, 2008

apologies there, have edited my post with correct info, cheers for pointing it out though pete.

northseawidow · Apr 12, 2008

I am still looking for a photo/postcard pic of Marston Green Hospital Birmmingham - if any one could help it would be appreciated
sue

Richard Davies · Apr 12, 2008

Colney Hatch looks very spread out compaired to other mental hospitals.

Rauceby is very compact in comparison.

Pete · Apr 13, 2008

Richard Davies said:
Colney Hatch looks very spread out compaired to other mental hospitals.

Rauceby is very compact in comparison.

Colney Hatch Asylum (Friern Hosp.) is probabaly one of the best examples of what went really wrong with asylum design in the mid c.19. The linear corridor running along the main frontage was 1/4 mile in length, consequently the furthest wards were at least and 1/8 mile from the central service areas such as the chapel and kitchens. The image shows the building as intended, before extensions which commenced around 1859. From that time, the entire frontage was three storeys in height and extended even further at the extremities. Even soon after it was built the institution was widely cited as a bad job. Asylums like Rauceby are examples of how much development too place in the years after in order to provide a organised, convenient layout which was compact without becoming overly congested.

Pete

Richard Davies · Apr 13, 2008

Pete said:
Colney Hatch Asylum (Friern Hosp.) is probabaly one of the best examples of what went really wrong with asylum design in the mid c.19. The linear corridor running along the main frontage was 1/4 mile in length, consequently the furthest wards were at least and 1/8 mile from the central service areas such as the chapel and kitchens. The image shows the building as intended, before extensions which commenced around 1859. From that time, the entire frontage was three storeys in height and extended even further at the extremities. Even soon after it was built the institution was widely cited as a bad job. Asylums like Rauceby are examples of how much development too place in the years after in order to provide a organised, convenient layout which was compact without becoming overly congested.

Pete

Thanks for letting me know, we could do with a feature on the development of asylum design, complete with diagrams, as I never sure what some terms describe.

banshee · Aug 22, 2009

i went past Bolingbroke hospital near clapham south london last week and from what someone local told me the council want to do the usual luxury flats conversion .i wonder has anyone done an explore there yet ?

Winchester · Aug 22, 2009

I've recently acquired postcards from:

Horton
Leicester General
Napsbury
Winwick Asylum
Claybury
St Audry's
CMH
Royal Berks
I'll get them scanned and uploaded at some point.

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