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Join Elaine Andrews and Sarah Dallas as they take us around SE1, discovering our local heritage. Find the route below.
The lost hospitals of SE1 #1
27 min
The following map covers the route around SE1 as discussed in the Festivalcast episode as available on Morley Radio. Information compiled by Elaine Andrews.
1. Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women
2. King George Military Hospital
3. The Royal South London Dispensary
4. The Churchill Clinic
5. Bethlem Royal Hospital
(knowns as Bedlam, now the
Imperial War Museum)
6. All Saints Hospital
Other lost hospitals in the area:
General Lying-in Hospital (maternity),
York Road
Hospital for Diseases of the Skin,
71 Blackfriars Road
Lambeth Hospital (former workhouse),
Brook Drive
Institute of Optometry,
52-56 Newington Causeway
Psychiatric Day Hospital (for children and their families),
35 Black Prince Road
The Royal Eye Hospital,
St. George's Circus