EPW021379 ENGLAND (1928). Napsbury Hospital. Napsbury, 1928
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| Title | [EPW021379] Napsbury Hospital. Napsbury, 1928 |
| Reference | EPW021379 |
| Date | 30-May-1928 |
| Link | |
| Place name | NAPSBURY |
| Parish | LONDON COLNEY |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 516467, 203981 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -0.31368698407884, 51.721983653569 |
| National Grid Reference | TL165040 |
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 All Saints - built circa 1899 as an Anglican convent, then used as a Pastoral Centre. Sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster in the late 1970s. They in turn disposed of it circa 2010. |
John W |
Monday 13th of June 2016 05:23:43 PM |
| Midland Railway sidings, serving the hospital with coal |
Chriss |
Sunday 3rd of January 2016 02:17:09 PM |
During WW1, as mentioned by Mike Richardson, when the hospital was used as a military hospital a temporary platform was built here so that patients could be unloaded from hospital trains. |
John W |
Thursday 9th of March 2017 08:58:47 PM |
| The Middlesex County Asylum [founded in 1898], designed for 1,205 residents,[5] and opened in 1905. During the First World War, Napsbury was used for and known as the County of Middlesex War Hospital, which tended for soldiers wounded at the Front. Following the war, the hospital was returned to its original purpose. |
Mike Richardson |
Monday 24th of February 2014 11:40:55 AM |
| St Albans to St Pancras railway line - the old LMS line. |
Mike Richardson |
Monday 24th of February 2014 11:35:02 AM |
User Comment Contributions
View is approximately from the North-West side. |
John W |
Monday 13th of June 2016 05:20:12 PM |