London, SE18 - Former Royal Herbert Hospital
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London, SE18 - Former Royal Herbert Hospital
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 30 Sep 2012
Alongside one side of Shooters Hill Road (the A207), near to its junction with Well Hall Road (the A205), lies the former Administrative Block with the main entrance of the Royal Herbert (Military) Hospital in all its Italianate architectural grandness. The hospital was commissioned by Sir Sidney Herbert, Minister of War, who supported the despatch of Florence Nightingale and her nurses to the Crimean War and who supported her health-related and care-related reforms for British military personnel at home and abroad. This establishment was created as a restorative facility for veterans of the Crimean War and opened in 1865. It eventually became the British Army's principal orthopaedic centre but finally closed in 1977 having became superfluous to military requirements. By 1995, it had been saved from demolition and had been converted into 228 private apartments known collectively as The Royal Herbert Pavilions.
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