Gateway to Scott Business Park, North Prospect - Plymouth
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Gateway to Scott Business Park, North Prospect - Plymouth
Image: © Mick Lobb Taken: 1 May 2010
Dating from the late 19th century the site previously contained the Devonport Borough Isolation Hospital, renamed the Scott Isolation Hospital in memory of Captain Robert Falcon Scott the explorer in 1955. The hospital grew from one catering for 24 patients suffering diseases such as Smallpox and Scarlet Fever to one meeting the needs of 170 patients. With advances in medicine and the new Derriford Hospital catering for most medical needs of the local population it had ceased to function as a hospital by the late 1980's. A Child Development Centre was opened in 1991 and the site has developed to hold a business park as well as other organisations of a welfare nature such as a Healthy Living Centre and Plymouth Heartbeat, charity providing cardiac health support, as well as light engineering works and office facilities.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.390875
Longitude
-4.16234