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Hospitals

Before the establishment of the National Health Service, Hertfordshire had an assortment of Hospitals varying greatly in quality and size.

  • Dr Mary Groves Rowe MBE
    Dr Mary Groves Rowe MBE
    Dr Mary Groves Rowe MBE established the first St Albans and City and District Hospice Care Team.
  • Dr Miall-Smith, The Welwyn Garden City Doctor
    Dr Miall-Smith, The Welwyn Garden City Doctor
    Dr Miall-Smith, The First Female Welwyn Garden City Doctor.
  • E. Margaret Burnside, Midwifery Inspector
    E. Margaret Burnside, Midwifery Inspector
    E. Margaret, Hertfordshire's first Chief Health Visitor and Midwives Trainer
  • Hemel Hempstead Hospital Blues.
    Hemel Hempstead Hospital Blues.
    Lyrics to a standard blues tune.
  • Memories of Harold Percival Pegrum
    Memories of Harold Percival Pegrum
  • Memories of Hill End
    Memories of Hill End
    Creative writing at Francis Bacon School, St Albans
  • Memories of Leavesden Hospital
    Memories of Leavesden Hospital
    Victorian design and durability
  • Memories of Watford Isolation Hospital, Tolpits Lane
    Memories of Watford Isolation Hospital, Tolpits Lane
    Like John Baldwin I went into Watford Isolation Hospital with Poliomyelitis in 1948, which would have been very useful with ...
  • Postcards from Hill End Asylum
    Postcards from Hill End Asylum
    These postcards, produced by Alpha of St Albans, are from the collections of St Albans Museums’. They show Hill End hospital in around ...
  • Pound Day
    Pound Day
    Raising funds for Hertford County Hospital
  • Princess Margaret's visit to Hertford County Hospital
    Princess Margaret's visit to Hertford County Hospital
    Official opening of the Diagnostic Unit (approximately 1989)
  • Shenley Hospital
    Shenley Hospital
    An elegant Art Deco interior
  • Shingle Hall
    Shingle Hall
    Night Landing Ground
  • Ware Park
    Ware Park
    A thousand years of history
  • Ware Union Workhouse / Western House
    Ware Union Workhouse / Western House
    The old and poor of Ware, 1839-1982
  • Watford & District Isolation Hospital
    Watford & District Isolation Hospital
    help with research
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