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Description: | Sunderland Infirmary moved in 1867 to the new building shown in this view. The town's growing population had meant that the old building of 1823 was no longer adequate. The previous Infirmary had been built as a hospital for poor people, and was attached to the Sunderland Dispensary (opened 1810). The architect for the new hospital was Joseph Potts, who made the drawing for this print. In 1911 the hospital changed its name to Sunderland Royal Infirmary. The buildings were expanded, and were still used as a hospital until the early 1990s. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East art designers Sunderland health | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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