Thorpe Coombe Hospital

Thorpe Coombe Hospital
Thorpe Coombe Hospital
Thorpe Coombe Hospital is located in London Borough of Waltham Forest
Thorpe Coombe Hospital
Location within Waltham Forest
Geography
LocationWalthamstow, London, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates51°35′27″N 0°00′28″W / 51.5907°N 0.0079°W / 51.5907; -0.0079
Organisation
Care systemNational Health Service
TypeSpecialist
Services
Emergency departmentNo
SpecialityPsychiatry
History
Opened1934

Thorpe Coombe Hospital was a psychiatric hospital and former maternity hospital in Walthamstow, London.

History

Walthamstow Borough Council acquired a mansion called North Bank which had been owned by Octavius Wigram for the purposes of establishing a maternity hospital in 1929.[1][2][3] The hospital was opened by Dame Janet Campbell, a leading physician, in April 1934.[3] As a maternity hospital it had circa 70 beds.[1] It joined the National Health Service in 1948.[3] It ceased maternity facilities in 1973 and was subsequently used as a nurses' home, then a treatment centre for Alzheimer's disease patients and latterly as a mental health facility.[3]

The hospital closed in 2017, and parts of the site were demolished to make way for a new health centre, known as the Jane Atkinson Health and Wellbeing Centre, which opened in November 2019.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "History: Thorpe Coombe Hospital". East London and West Essex Guardian Series. 27 February 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Your Story: The Forest Group of Hospitals". BBC. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d "Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital". Lost Hospitals of London. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Opening of the new Jane Atkinson Health and Wellbeing Centre – Monday 11 November 2019". North East London NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 24 March 2020.