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Description: | The Duke of Newcastle gave One acre of his land plus £300; John Kay, a member of a Nottingham banking family gave £500; Nottingham Corporation added another acre; Sir Richard Arkwright and Sir Henry Cavendish donated plus there was financial assistance from Derbyshire, which did not have a hospital. The cost of the proposed building was £3,300. John Simpson was appointed architect and in 1781 the foundation stone was laid. The grand opening was 18 September 1782. the Lord Mayor led a procession to St Mary's Church. Tickets sold at 2/6d per head. It was followed by a dinner, concert and ball at the Thurland Hall (the old Corn Exchange).
When the Second World War broke out in 1939, the General Hospital was included in the emergency services and 75 extra beds were squeezed into the existing building to deal with the expected casualties. Nottingham was bombed on a number of occasions, with 179 people killed and over 350 injured.
Hundreds attended a service of thanksgiving at St Mary's Church to mark the final chapter in the 209 year history of one of the country's oldest hospitals, the Nottingham General. The original Park Row buildings closed in April 1992, when the hospital's remaining wards for the elderly moved to a new unit at Gamston. Some outpatient services remained after the last in-patients moved out with the transfer of Radiotherapy to the City Hospital in early 1993. | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | North East Midland Photographic Record | Subjects: | select Please | Source: | Picture the Past OAI feed | Creator: | Hadley, B M | Identifier: | http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/fronten... | Language: | EN-GB | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | Go to resource |
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