Rose Cottage
A Memory of Redhill.
This picture named Redhill Hospital 1908 is in fact the porter's lodge at the main entrance. When I nursed there in the 1970s we all called it "Rose Cottage" as apart from housing the switchboard and the porter's lodge it also housed the Pathology lab and the mortuary! Rose Cottage is a fairly often used term for a mortuary in a lot of hospitals. So if you hear a nurse or doctor say "They will soon be going to Rose Cottage" you will know what they mean. I just hope they will not be talking about you!
Out of interest the children's ward was above the laundry in the former workhouse, a very spooky place to do night duty in as apart from the (hopefully) sleeping kids you never felt alone!
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