Original site of Nelson Hospital, 1900 - 1912.
Site: Nelson Hospital (1 memorial)
SW19, Merton Road, 173
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Original site of Nelson Hospital, 1900 - 1912.
SW19, Merton Road, 173
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Nelson Hospital
Originally known as the South Wimbledon, Merton and District Cottage Hospital...
In the 19th century this brewery was on the elite tourist trail so in 1850 when Haynau arrived in London here he came. But his reputatio...
English Heritage Tom Sayers, 1926 - 1865, pugilist, died here.
Galsworthy was not well enough to go to the ceremony to receive his Nobel Prize for Literature, so they brought it to him at his home here.
The Listing entry gives the history of the building: "... On the Tithe map of 1801 there are narrow rectangular buildings in the plot now...
The corridor with the two busts, plaque and glass display area is on the ground floor of the Hunter wing.
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