Freedom Fields Hospital
| Freedom Fields Hospital | |
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 Freedom Fields Hospital | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Plymouth, United Kingdom |
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| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Type | General |
| History | |
| Opened | 1858 |
| Closed | 1998 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in the United Kingdom |
Freedom Fields Hospital was an acute hospital in Plymouth that closed in 1998. The site formerly occupied by the hospital has now been largely redeveloped for residential use.
History
[edit | edit source]The facility was designed by Arthur and Dwelly as a workhouse and built on a site to the east of the junction of Longfield Place and Greenbank Road between 1852 and 1858.[1] Enlargements included a major expansion of the medical facilities between 1907 and 1910.[1] It became the Greenbank Infirmary in 1909 and the Plymouth City Hospital in 1930.[1]
The building was bombed several times in attacks on the areas surrounding Plymouth Sound during the Second World War. One young girl was killed in a ward block on the night of 13 January 1941 and, shortly after a new maternity block had been opened by Lord Astor, six nurses, nineteen babies and one mother were killed in that block on the night of 20 March 1941.[2] After it joined the National Health Service in 1948, it was renamed Freedom Fields Hospital.[1]
Renal services transferred to the new Derriford Hospital in 1982, maternity services transferred there in 1994 and the remaining services transferred in February 1998.[2] The site has now been largely redeveloped for residential use.[1]
References
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