Hornsey Central Hospital
Hornsey Central Hospital with the war memorial on the right.
Hornsey Central Hospital is located in London Borough of Haringey
Hornsey Central Hospital
Location within Haringey
Geography
LocationLondon, N8
United Kingdom
Coordinates51°35′03″N 0°07′53″W / 51.5841°N 0.1313°W / 51.5841; -0.1313
Organisation
Care systemNHS
History
Opened1910
Closed2001

Hornsey Cottage Hospital, later Hornsey Central Hospital, was a local hospital in Crouch End, North London, opened in 1910. It closed in 2001, and was replaced by a polyclinic in 2009.

History

A proposal for a 'hospital for the poor' was first made in 1897. Local fund raising eventually led to construction of the Hornsey Cottage Hospital on land provided by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The foundation stone was laid in 1907.[1] Opening in 1910, the original hospital had sixteen beds.[2]

Following the First World War a war memorial was built at the site, to commemorate 1,200 people from the borough who had died in the war. In 1924 the building was expanded, with a further 22 beds and a new operating theatre.[1] In 1927 a further small extension was made and it was renamed as Hornsey Central Hospital.[1] A nurses' home was added in 1930 and a children's ward (the Southwood Wing) in 1938.[2]

After the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948, the hospital was administered by the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.[1] A further extension was made in 1956.[1]

The site continued as a general hospital until 1974, when it specialised in acute cases. In 1981 it became a geriatric hospital, providing long-term care for the elderly.[3] In 1998 the local health authority decided that the hospital could no longer provide modern health care and it closed in 2001.[1] The hospital was subsequently demolished and redeveloped as the Hornsey Central Neighbourhood Health Centre. The war memorial was retained.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Hornsey Central Hospital". Lost Hospitals of London. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 Rowlands, Eleri (2013), "Hornsey Cottage Hospital - the story from its conception in 1897 until the formation of the NHS in 1948", Hornsey Historical Society Bulletin, Hornsey Historical Society, no. 54
  3. ↑ "Hornsey Central Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
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