London - St. Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth - postcard c.1970s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  St. Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth, London - ' the old and the new
• Publisher:  Photo Precision Ltd
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  6&half p blue Machin
• Postmark(s):  London SE1 date not clear but mid to late 1970s
• Sent to:  Hollybush Lane, Harpenden,
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS teaching hospital in Central London. Administratively part of the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, together with Guy's Hospital and King's College Hospital it provides the location of the King's College London School of Medicine.

Originally located in Southwark, but based in Lambeth since 1871, the hospital has provided healthcare freely or under charitable auspices since the 12th century. It is one of London's most famous hospitals, associated with names such as Astley Cooper, William Cheselden, Florence Nightingale, Linda Richards, Edmund Montgomery and Agnes Elizabeth Jones. It is a prominent London landmark - largely due to its location on the opposite bank of the River Thames to the Houses of Parliament.

St Thomas' Hospital is accessible from Westminster tube station (a ten-minute walk across Westminster bridge), Waterloo station (tube and national rail, also a ten-minute walk) and Lambeth North tube station (another ten-minute walk).

The hospital was described as ancient in 1215 and was named after St Thomas Becket — which suggests it may have been founded after 1173 when Becket was canonised. However, it is possible it was only renamed in 1173 and that it was established shortly after St Mary Overie Priory was founded at Southwark in 1106.

Originally it was run by a mixed order of Augustinian monks and nuns, dedicated to St Thomas Becket. It provided shelter and treatment for the poor, sick, and homeless. In the fifteenth century, Richard Whittington endowed a laying-in ward for unmarried mothers. The monastery was dissolved in 1539 during the Reformation, but reopened in 1551 and rededicated to Thomas the Apostle. It was reopened through the efforts of the City of London who obtained the grant of the site and a charter from Edward VI and has remained open ever since.^[2] The hospital was also the site of the first printed English Bible in 1537.{Commemorated by plaque on Post Office in Borough High Street opposite Borough Market.}

At the end of the 17th century, the hospital and church were largely rebuilt by Sir Robert Clayton, president of the hospital and a former Lord Mayor of London. Thomas Cartwright was the architect for the work.

In 1721 Sir Thomas Guy, a governor of St Thomas', founded Guy's Hospital as a place to treat 'incurables' discharged from St Thomas'.

The hospital left Southwark in 1862, when its ancient site was compulsorily purchased to make way for the construction of the Charing Cross Railway viaduct from London Bridge Station. The hospital was temporarily housed at Royal Surrey Gardens in Newington (Walworth) until new buildings on the present site in Lambeth near Lambeth Palace were completed in 1871.

Some parts of the old hospital survive on the north side of St Thomas Street, Southwark: from the old St. Thomas' Church (1704), now used mostly as offices but including the Old Operating Theatre, which is now a Museum, the neighbouring Treasury, and the row of Georgian houses on a corner near Joiner Street. The old hospital's 'Women's Ward', attached to the Operating Theatre, built in 1842 in dressed stone in a classical style, is best seen from Borough High Street. Its ground floor is now a main Post Office.

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