The original building survives at the heart of the site, comprising the central nine bays with advanced pedimented centre. It has been much extended and altered, upwards and outwards, including the entrance porch that was added in 1887 at the same time as the Victoria Wing. By the middle of...
Stratford-upon-Avon HospitalSP 197 552 100272 Extract from the 25 inch OS map, revised in 1885 Reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland Stratford upon Avon Hospital, photographed in the early 1990s, L. Holmstadt Stratford-upon-Avon Hospital (Stratford-upon-Avon Union Workhouse...
At that time three such hospitals were in existence in London: one in Islington was for those convalescing from the disease, one in Shoreditch was for those who had smallpox although they had been inoculated, and so had a milder form of the disease, while that in Clerkenwell was for the...