A notorious smelly East End Hospital during its latter years. St Andrew's Hospital was founded in 1868 as the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum, under the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867 along architectural lines favoured by Florence Nightingale, and opened in 1873 with over 500 beds but only 26 nurses and 1 doctor.
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New ward blocks were added increasing capacity to over 750 beds by the 1890s .The Asylum was renamed St Andrew's Hospital in 1921. The hospital closed in 2006 due it being in poor condition. By the end it was mainly used for geriatric care.
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Demolition of the entire site began in 2008 and redevelopment work started immediately afterwards on this 3-hectare site situated next to Bromley-by-Bow station. Nearly 1000 homes plus a health centre have since been built on the site bordering Devas St, Devons Rd, the A12 and the tube line containing new private roads named Nelson/Hannaford/Truman/Harston Walk. Now, years later, the only trace as to the existence of the site's past is the odd redundant street sign pointing pedestrians towards St Andrew's Hospital.
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New ward blocks were added increasing capacity to over 750 beds by the 1890s .The Asylum was renamed St Andrew's Hospital in 1921. The hospital closed in 2006 due it being in poor condition. By the end it was mainly used for geriatric care.
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Demolition of the entire site began in 2008 and redevelopment work started immediately afterwards on this 3-hectare site situated next to Bromley-by-Bow station. Nearly 1000 homes plus a health centre have since been built on the site bordering Devas St, Devons Rd, the A12 and the tube line containing new private roads named Nelson/Hannaford/Truman/Harston Walk. Now, years later, the only trace as to the existence of the site's past is the odd redundant street sign pointing pedestrians towards St Andrew's Hospital.
On the 29th January 1510, a royal warrant was issued, in which "John Dawtrey by our like commandment hath delivered and paid unto the said Robert Brigandine, Clerk of our said Ships, for timber, ironwork, and workmanship of two new ships to be made for us £700, and the one ship to be of the burthen of 400 tons and the other ship to be of the burthen of 300 tons"
Later, the smaller ship would be named Peter Pomegranate, while her big sister would be called Mary Rose...
Later, the smaller ship would be named Peter Pomegranate, while her big sister would be called Mary Rose...
Slum housing in Tooting Grove , London, 21st May 1935. ‘ Houses with no roofs and no walls!’ London’s strangest ‘ open - air’ colony is soon to disappear. For four months scores of people in Tooting Grove, Wandsworth, have been living in houses without roofs and with parts of the walls missing , while Wandsworth Council and the owners negotiated the price of the property. In January, parts of the houses were condemned by the district surveyor, but since their demolition the tenants have refused alternative accommodations .