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Description: | View of Hospital Sunday, Crown Close, Alton. The scene shows postmen, firemen, scouts, the Town Band and crowds all attending Hospital Sunday. This was held in late September or early October and was the culmination of fund raising efforts for the cottage hospital. Before the advent of the National Health Service hospitals had to be locally supported and so house to house and street collections were held along with other money raising events and the Town Band would be out giving concerts and supporting the drive. On Hospital Sunday a service of thanksgiving would be held in Crown Close, just outside the hospital, to mark the end of their efforts. On the left is the Mechanics Institute and Curtis Museum while to the rear is Inwood Cottage Hospital. Built on land given by Henry Hall of the Manor House, Inwood was one of the three buildings that formed Crown Close, the others being the Assembly Rooms and the Mechanics Institute. All three were opened in 1880 having been designed by C E Barry and constructed by the Alton firm of J H and E Dyer. It was named after Daniel Inwood of Binsted who left £1,500 in his will for this purpose. This remained Alton's Cottage hospital until 1951 when the Alton General Hospital in Anstey Road took over its medical functions, Inwood remaining as training and living quarters for nurses for some years. It was eventually left empty and abandoned until 1983 when the Shaftsbury Housing Association renovated it and reopened it as sheltered accommodation, calling it Inwood Court.
Copy of a photograph. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Margaret Smith | Subjects: | Hospital Sunday Town Band Crown Close scout building Inwood Cottage Hospital Daniel Inwood postman Shaftsbury Housing Association museum Mechanics Institute C E Barry Dyer event fireman Curtis Museum Inwood Court hospital | Temporal: | start=1880-01-01; end=1920-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: Smith, Margaret; 1980s | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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