Stories
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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A nose through Blythe House
Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.
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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
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The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
Catalogue
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Achievement since 1947 / South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.
South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.Date: [1963?]- Archives and manuscripts
North West Metropolitan Region
Date: 1950-1955Reference: PP/CMW/D.11/3Part of: Lord Moran (Charles McMoran Wilson) (1882-1977): archives- Archives and manuscripts
South West Metropolitan Region
Date: 1950-1956Reference: PP/CMW/D.11/5Part of: Lord Moran (Charles McMoran Wilson) (1882-1977): archives- Books
Working for children : the development of the paediatric unit at Northwick Park / Bernard Valman.
Valman, H. B. (Hyman Bernard)Date: 2006- Books
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A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor and the Honourable the Court of Aldermen, And Governours of the several Hospitals of the City of London, At St. Bridget's Church in Easter-Week, 1711. Being one of the Anniversary Spittal sermons. By Richard West, D. D. Arch-Deacon of Berks, and Prebendary of Winchester.
West, Richard, 1671 or 1672-1716.Date: [1711]
