Dudley, W Midlands - Dudley Guest Hospital - potcard c.1910s
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- Location : United Kingdom
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- Start : Thu 03 Jul 2014 23:10:56 (BST)
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- Picture / Image: Dudley Guest Hospital, West Midlands [form. Worcestershire]
- Publisher: 'Fountain' series
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The Dudley Guest Hospital is a hospital located in Dudley, West Midlands, England, part of The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust [1][2]
It is situated in Tipton Road, Dudley and the buildings were originally constructed in 1849 by the Earl of Dudley to accommodate miners blinded in the numerous local coal mines. The miners rejected the Earl's charity, and the buildings remained empty until 1871, when they were taken over by local chainmaker Joseph Guest and turned into a hospital.[3]
In 1908, Tipton pawnbroker Hugh Lewis left his entire estate of £80,000 to the hospital.[4]
Most of the hospital was rebuilt between 1929 and 1939, on the far side not visible from Tipton Road, though part of these new buildings were visible from Birmingham New Road which opened in 1927 and allowed for a second vehicular access point (which was closed in the 1990s).[5] A new pre-fabricated timber/plaster board annex was added in the 1960s, and survived until the hospital's closure.[6]
The hospital's accident and emergency department closed in the spring of 1984 and was relocated to the new Russells Hall Hospital. Around this time, fears were rife in the local area that Dudley Guest Hospital was on the verge of closure, but the opening of a new hydrotherapy pool and physiotherapy department in 1986 appeared to silence these fears. However, National Health Service officials announced in July 1990 that they were considering closing the hospital (along with nearby Burton Road Hospital, which ultimately closed in December 1993) and expanding Russells Hall to accommodate replacement facilities, but the hospital survived another 17 years.
The former nurse's home at the hospital was demolished in 1996.[7]
A new horseshoe-shaped extension was opened in 2003, but the old buildings - including the out-patients department - remained in use until October 2007.[8]
Most of the buildings are due to be retained owing to their historic importance, though some of the less significant structures are set to be demolished to make way for a housing development - these include the wards at the rear of the site which were built in the 1930s, as well as the hydrotherapy pool and physiotherapy department. The administration building, former out-patients unit and hospital lodge are set to be retained to form residential properties.[9]
In 2008, it was used to film Ghosthunting with... and stars from I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! ghosthunted in parts of the hospital, just six months after it closed.[10]
Joseph Guest was an English chainmaker who developed his industry in the Black Country of Central England during the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century. He is most famous for opening the Dudley Guest Hospital in 1871, having bought the buildings from the Earl of Dudley who had built them in 1849 with the intention of housing miners who had been blinded in the local mines, but the miners had rejected this offer and the buildings remained empty for 22 years until Guest purchased them and opened a hospital.
Dudley (i/'d?dli/ DUD-lee) is a large town in the West Midlands county of England and the administrative and financial centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley. At the 2001 census, the population of the town of Dudley (as opposed to the wider borough) was given as being 194,919, making it one of the largest towns in Britain without city status. This figure does not include the towns of Stourbridge or Halesowen, which make up the larger borough, but does include smaller outlying districts such as Sedgley and Gornal. Some people[who?] prefer to measure the population as being the smaller Dudley built-up area, which according to the 2011 census had a population of 79,379.[2] The wider metropolitan borough has a population of 312,925.
Dudley is part of the West Midlands conurbation and is located 6 miles (9.7 km) south-east of the city of Wolverhampton and 8 miles (13 km) north-west of the city of Birmingham. It is the largest town in the Black Country region of England, and is considered its capital.[3][4][5] For many years the town (but not the castle, which was outside the boundary in Staffordshire)[6] formed part of an exclave of the county of Worcestershire.[7] Despite the more recent changes in county boundaries, the town and borough still remain part of the Anglican Diocese of Worcester.
In recent years Dudley town centre has become considerably run down, with the creation of the Merry Hill Shopping Centre 2.5 miles (4.0 km) away at Brierley Hill resulting in the majority of major retailers and businesses relocating out of the town centre. The decision by the local authority in 2008 to move the Strategic Town Centre designation to Brierley Hill[8] has been yet another blow for the town, which continues to decline.
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Listing Information
Listing Type | Gallery Listing |
Listing ID# | 129854141 |
Start Time | Thu 03 Jul 2014 23:10:56 (BST) |
Close Time | Run Until Sold |
Starting Bid | Fixed Price (no bidding) |
Item Condition | Used |
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Views | 1037 |
Dispatch Time | 2 Days |
Quantity | 1 |
Location | United Kingdom |
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