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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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