Catalogue description Records of LYDNEY HOSPITAL.

This record is held by Gloucestershire Archives

Details of HO 29
Reference: HO 29
Title: Records of LYDNEY HOSPITAL.
Held by: Gloucestershire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Lyndey Hospital, Aylburton
Immediate source of acquisition:

(Accs: 4034, 4237, 4267, 4326)

 

Deposited by R.A.J. Bell Esq., 20 Church Road, Lydney, 14 July 1980, 16 April 1981, 10 June 1981 and by Gloucester District Health Authority, 8 October 1981
Subjects:
  • Ayleburton, Gloucestershire
  • Health services
Administrative / biographical background:

The Lydney and District Hospital was founded in 1882 by Mrs. M.E. Bathurst of Lydney Park, at a converted cottage in Aylburton. A new hospital was built between 1907-09. Between 1914 and 1919 the hospital was used by the Red Cross for nursing war wounded, and from 1925 the hospital operated a contributory medical care scheme. Extensions were made to the buildings in 1932, and after transfer to the South Western Regional Hospital Board in 1948, again in 1958-63.
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