Old Hospital Pictures.

[silverstealth]

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]

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

 

[worldoftheshadows]

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]

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

 

[silverstealth]

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]

These are all postcards I have recently aquired

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

 

[worldoftheshadows]

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]

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

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

 

[silverstealth]

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]

interesting postcards father christmas in the last one looks very scary

 

[Foxylady]

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]

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]

Shenley, Lancashire?

 

[redrum]

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

 

[northseawidow]

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]

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

Rauceby is very compact in comparison.

 

[Pete]

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]

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]

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]

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.