Zepherina Veitch (1836 -1894)
Dame Rosalind Paget (1855 - 1948)
Pioneering midwives trained at the British Lying-in Hospital, founded 1739 and sited here, 1849 - 1913.
Seven Dials Trust
The plaque gives 1739 as the foundation date but sources give 1749.
WC2, Endell Street, 24
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rosalind Paget and Zepherina Veitch
Initially called the Lying-In Hospital for Married Women. ( 'Lying-in' is an ...
Nurse and midwife. Trained at the British Lying-in Hospital. She was the firs...
Nurse and midwife. She trained at University College Hospital and at the Brit...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Rosalind Paget and Zepherina Veitch
This plaque is placed at the junction with Cunard Crescent in a new housing estate, this entrance being Halliwick Gate. Bush Hill House...
The site has been redeveloped for housing. What remains of the hospital are these entrance gate piers (at the north-east corner of the si...
This memorial was planted just over two years after the violent death of Mountbatten.
This foundation stone marks the beginning of the building works on the church. It was salvaged from the ruins of the church after WW2 and...
The rectangular aluminium plaque is on the cutter head which has been painted in a Union Jack-inspired scheme.
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