Hospitals Gallery

Tatler cover - Mrs Arundel Kempton & Mick the Miller

Front cover of the Tatler magazine featuring Mrs Arundel Kempton pictured with the legendary greyhound champion, Mick the Miller and two of his puppies. She was donating the puppies (whose dam was Toftwood Misery) for a sweepstakes in aid of the South London Hospital and Royal Veterinary College. Greyhound racing enjoyed a new found popularity during the late 1920s and 1930s not just among the working classes but also, "high society" with many society ladies owning greyhounds and inviting their circle for dinner and drinks at the stadiums springing up around the country. Date: 1932

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Ladywell Lodge, Lewisham, south east London

Aerial view of Ladywell Lodge, a residential institution for the elderly, near Lewisham, in south east London. The site was formerly St Olave's Union workhouse, designed by Newman & Newman, opened in 1900 to house the aged and infirm. During the First World War, it became Bermondsey Military Hospital and was later known as Bermondsey Institution

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Westminster Hospital opening April 1939

A great event in hospital history the new Westminister Hospital will be open on 20th April 1939 by His Majesty King accompanied by Her Majesty The Queen. Westminster Hospital was a hospital in London, England, founded in 1719. In 1834 a medical school attached to the hospital was formally founded. In 1939 a newly built hospital and medical school opened in Horseferry Road, Westminster. Date: April 1939

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans