Ringwood Medical Centre, The Close
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Ringwood Medical Centre, The Close
Image: © Peter Facey Taken: 23 May 2006
As I recall, in the 1950s GPs treated patients from rooms in their private homes. In the 1960s some Ringwood GPs clubbed together and built a Health Centre in the road behind the Post Office (then a through road to Mansfield Road, now The Close). A few years later, they built an even better one next door and turned the old one into a drop-in centre for elderly people. Around 2000, this was demolished and the present centre was built.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.846312
Longitude
-1.789305