Nottingham, NG3 - Former Forest House
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Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 3 Nov 2012
This single-storey wing is the former Out-Patients' Department of the former Nottingham Children's Hospital as seen from the Berkeley Ave entrance to the complex. The arched doorway on the right is a principal entrance into the former home of Sir Thomas Isaac Birkin, of the lace-making dynasty, who donated the house and grounds for conversion into a paediatric hospital in 1905 when he was created 1st Baronet of Ruddington Grange. In 1939 John Dane Player, of the tobacco company, funded the extensions on the left. The premises became the HQ of the Nottinghamshire Area Health Authority in the early 1980s and later the base of the Nottingham Health Authority. It is now owned and used by an Islamic Trust.