Manor House Hospital, Golders Green

2 black and white photographs of the Manor House Hospital, Golders Green, NW 11. One showing the male patients in the Physiotherapy Department and the other showing an unidentified man (possibly Ernest Bevin, secretary of Transport and General Worker's Union) getting out of a hospital vehicle and being greeted by a nurse-sister and party of five gentlemen outside the hospital.

1920s

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15/11/2005

Manor House Hospital was founded in 1917 by the Allied Hospital Benevolent Society which was formed in 1914 to provide field hospitals for the French Army. In 1916 when they returned to England, the War Office asked them to build a hospital to treat injured servicemen. The hospital was built on the site of the Golders Green Manor. In 1919 the Society was renamed the Industrial Orthopaedic Society and the hospital began to treat victims of industrial accidents, and became a recognized orthopaedic centre. It operated as a private, independent, non-profit organization, run by the Industrial Orthopaedic Society and supported by membership subscriptions from trades unions. In 1948 it was one of three hospitals to be exempted from joining the NHS. In 1996 the Industrial Orthopaedic Society changed its name to the Manor House Friendly Society Limited and is now known as Simplyhealth. The hospital was closed in 1999. The site was redeveloped in luxury housing.