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Lewisham Hospital

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Lewisham Hospital

The origins of this hospital go back to a workhouse established in 1612. See Lewisham Union for its early days.

During WW1 it became the Lewisham Military Hospital, and after further extensions it became the University Hospital Lewisham in 1993. A major development in 2007 called Lewisham Riverside was opened by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. In 2012, a proposal to close its A&E Department was overturned by a massive public reaction. Officially, University Hospital Lewisham, it is run by the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

More information at the splendid .

This was taken by Reading Tom and shows the remaining block from the 1893 Infirmary.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Lewisham Hospital

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Lewisham Hospital Out-Patients Department

CI is the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, which ceased to be awarded af...

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Lewisham pump

{On the plaque:} This pump was made by George Turner of Dorset Street, Fleet ...

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Guy's & St Thomas' Charities Foundation

Guy's & St Thomas' Charities Foundation

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Cecil J. R. MacFadden, OBE, MD

Cecil J. R. MacFadden, OBE, MD

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Order of St John of Jerusalem

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C. T. Osborn

C. T. Osborn

District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1893-1939. Officer in the Order of St John.

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Francis T. Gregg

Francis T. Gregg

M.A. Secretary of Institute of The Ophthalmic Opticians, Refraction Hospital in 1929.

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