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This is from one of the engravings I own but all the caption says is "Southport Strangers Charity". A look at the Handbook For Southport 1883 gives the following information. So it looks as though this is the original Promenade Hospital.
"One of the most important and interesting of the Southport institutions has still to be mentioned the Convalescent Hospital and Sea-bathing Infirmary. The origin of this very useful and well-conducted establishment is found far back in the local history. In the year 1806 a charitable fund was organised by some benevolent persons, with a view to enabling the poor of the large manufacturing towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire to receive, when invalided, the benefits of sea air and sea-bathing. This fund, small no doubt at first, was steadily augmented from without as the excellence of the design became apparent. The appellation given to the institution probably the pioneer of its kind was the "Strangers' Charity." In 1853 the present building was erected. In 1862 it was considerably enlarged, and the name was at the same time altered to that one now in use. New buildings, of
very considerable beauty and extent, are now in progress of erection, these additions being rendered practicable through the liberality of the committee of the "Surplus Cotton Famine Fund," which has contributed for the purpose a sum of no less than £40,000. The number of beds available for patients is at present 220, and when the extensions shall be completed there will be accommodation for 400. The institution is now the second in the kingdom in point of extent, being surpassed only by the Margate Royal Sea-bathing Infirmary. To all appearance it will before long stand in advance of all, a blessing to the operative classes especially of the manufacturing districts which it is impossible to overestimate.
Numbered among its active supporters have been many of the chief philanthropists of the large towns of Lancashire. It is aided also by the great landowners and other principal capitalists of the county, the clergy and ministers of all denominations also doing good service. During the year 1860 the number of
patients received was 1454 ; last year (1882) the number was 2628. The Convalescent Hospital has a good supply of saltwater for the indoor use of its inmates, being connected, by a line of pipes, with the Victoria Baths, which draw it continually from the sea by means of powerful engines."
Stunning,although I think the original strangers charity was a more modest building.I do have a slide of the original..but where has my hubby moved it to??
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I think that part of the Prom Hospital became the spinal injuries unit. G ward?. If that part of the hospital was detonated by a charity how was it legally sold by the NHS?
Phil
I think that part of the Prom Hospital became the spinal injuries unit. G ward?. If that part of the hospital was detonated by a charity how was it legally sold by the NHS?
Phil
If it were "detonated" there's probably not much of it left standing. Could the word you were looking for be "donated"?
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I think that part of the Prom Hospital became the spinal injuries unit. G ward?. If that part of the hospital was detonated by a charity how was it legally sold by the NHS?
Phil
It was handed over to the newly founded NHS following WWII:
My late wife was the deputy superintendent radiographer for the hospital and the others in the town, along with satellite units such as Greaves Hall and New Hall. She was regularly involved with spinal unit patients' radiography needs at the time.
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