Royal London Hospital (Outpatients Department) - January 2023 / June 2024
In 1897 the hospitals’ outpatients department had outgrown its basement accommodation and following a donation from shipbuilding magnate Alfred Yarrow, a new purpose-built building was constructed on a site previously occupied by 35 early 19th century terraced houses. The new building, designed by Rowland Plumbe, was completed in 1903. It was - at the time - the largest medical and surgical outpatients building of its type in Britain.
The site also includes the 4-storey former outpatients annex which was built in 1935/36 to designs by architects Adams, Holden & Pearson to provide a home for the Department of Physical Medicine and the School of Physiotherapy.
The department closed to patients in 2012 when the hospital moved to its new premises, although part of the basement was used for storing medical records until more recently.
This place is no stranger to the forum (or social media for that matter) and I have visited twice, once in January 2023 with @raisinwing, @Humpa and @dweeb and again solo in June 2024. In the last year and a half the place has managed to lose all of its copper pipes and gain some PIRs with little cameras inside them. It’s partly nice and old and partly horrid and modernised but I quite like the place. I’m not sure what the future holds but it was granted an immunity from being listed in 2017 which sounds ominous.
The main outpatients department. I neglected to take an external shot of the annex but it's a wonderful looking mid-30s building.
Crew
30s annex
Eyes
Surgical outpatients
This part was fresh with the lights on last year... Now battered
Pharmacy
A rather industrious looking hydrotherapy pool to end with
