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Hospital

British Home

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Important information

Information about this hospital might be outdated.

Details

Previous Names
British Home for Incurables; British Home and Hospital for Incurables
Address
Crown Lane, Streatham, London, SW16 3JB
Previous Locations
Clapham, 1863-1894
Foundation Year
1861
Status
Open

Administrative Authorities

Pre-1974 County
London
Post-1974 County
Greater London
Post-1996 County
Greater London

Status

Pre-1948
Voluntary
Pre-1948 information
Used for wounded soldiers during World War I
Post-1948
Private

Type

Pre-1948
Military, Other
Pre-1948 information
Incurables
Post-1948
Hospice, Other
Post-1948 information
Incurables; chronically sick and disabled

Other information

There is a published history of the British Home: Gordon Cook, The Incurables Movement: An illustrated History of the British Home (Oxford: Radcliffe, 2006)

Record locations

  • Lambeth Archives Department

    Record types

    Administrative
    1863 - 2007
    General
    1863 - 2005
    Finance
    1886 - 1984
    Estates
    1999 - 1999
    Nursing
    1921 - 1962
    Staff
    1962 - 1984
    Admission
    1861 - 1966
    Clinical
    1882 - 1958
    Ephemera
    1882 - 2007
    Pictorial
    1890 - 2000
    Private Papers
    1960 - 1960
    Other
    1891 - 1988

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Catalogue
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Details
    IV/266 (Acc 2007/11)
    Other: letters from Royal Patrons 1891-1988; Chaplain's books, 1923-1932; visitors' book of garden parties 1882-1937. There are records of pensioners and annuitants as well as inpatients, 1865-1950