The tells that the clock tower in their garden "was taken from the Eastern Fever Hospital which was being demolished to make way for the Homerton University Hospital in 1982. ... The Eastern Fever Hospital was one of England’s first ‘state funded’ hospitals, commissioned by the Metropolitan Asylum Board designed by architects Messrs John Giles and Biven and built between 1869 and 1871."
This opened as a pair of hospitals next to each other: the Homerton Fever Hospital and the Smallpox Hospital on Homerton Grove, E9.
In 1883 the Homerton Hospitals were renamed the Eastern District Fever and the Eastern District Smallpox Hospitals. By 1884 the word 'District' had been dropped, and the two facilities merged as the Eastern Fever Hospital. This shows the buildings at this time with the City of London Institution (the former East London Union workhouse) immediately to the west. This become the City of London Military Hospital during WW1 and then, in 1921, the old workhouse buildings were purchased and immediately put to use in the Fever Hospital.
A new isolation block was built in 1935. The hospital joined the NHS in 1948 as the Eastern Hospital and became increasingly focused on neurological patients before closing in 1982.
On this site in 1982 construction of the new Homerton Hospital began, and was completed in July 1986. The hospital was built at a cost of £20 million and was opened by the Princess Royal in March 1987. As well as replacing the Eastern Hospital, the new hospital replaced the Mothers' Hospital Lower Clapton Road in Hackney, which closed in 1986, and the German Hospital. Clinical throughput increased further when the Hackney Hospital on Homerton High Street closed in 1995 and services were transferred to the current site.
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