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Where Would This Have Been?
Where would this have been - any ideas? I don't remember a military hospital in Guildford?
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This information relates to images 67923 and 67924. These photographs show what was originally the forbidding entrance to the Guildford Union Workhouse, which had been opened in 1838, this solid gateway stood in Union Road (subsequently renamed Warren Road in 1904). An infirmary had been added in 1896 for the benefit of the sick poor of the town. During the First World War (ie at the time of these photographs), the buildings were used as a military hospital; this later became Warren Road Hospital until 1945, and then St Luke's Hospital. In latter years it then became a radiotherapy centre and also housed the Guildford School of Nursing, a midwifery school and a school for radiotherapy, The buildings were demolished in 1965.
Comment from The Frith Memory Archivist on Tuesday, 11th October 2011.