Birmingham General Hospital, W. Midlands - Crocker postcard c.1910

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  General Hospital Birmingham, West Midlands [then Warwickshire]
• Publisher:  Crocker Bros. 45 Newhall Street, Birmingham
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
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Birmingham General Hospital was a teaching hospital in Birmingham, England, founded in 1779.

In 1765, a committee for a proposed hospital, formed by John Ash and supported by Sir Lister Holte, 5th Baronet, the Earl of Bradford, Samuel Garbett, Sir Henry Gough, Charles Adderley, Matthew Boulton, John Baskerville, Sampson Lloyd and others,^[1] purchased:

all those four closes, pieces, or parcels of Land, Meadow, or Pasture Ground, situate, lying, and being together near a place called the Salutation, in Birmingham aforesaid, containing, by estimation, eight Acres or thereabouts, be the same more or less, adjoining at the upper end or part thereof into a Lane there called Summer Lane, and at the lower end or part thereof unto a way called Walmore Lane

from a Mrs Dolphin, for £120 per acre.^[1][2] (Walmore Lane is now Lancaster Street^[2])

However, work to erect the new hospital on that land stopped through lack of funds in 1766.^[1] Eventually, much of its funds came from the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival, the first of which was held over three days in September 1768,^[3] and which continued to fund the hospital into the 20th century.^[3]

The hospital finally opened on 20 September 1779,^[1][4][5] giving its name to Hospital Street.^[2] About 200 patients were treated in its first three months of operation,^[5] even though the 40 beds were fewer than half those aimed for.^[1] Eventually 235 beds were provided on the site.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=warwickshire

number of items=single

period=pre - 1914

postage condition=unposted