Shooter's Hill, London SE18

Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 2 Jan 2013

This was originally the Woolwich, Plumstead & District Cottage Hospital opened in November 1890 with 12 beds, two of which were reserved for private patients. By 1912 it had 12 beds and two cots, children for tonsillectomies accounting for a large proportion of its admissions. The hospital ceased to function as a hospital in 1928 once the new War Memorial Hospital opened further up Shooters Hill. The hospital was later adapted as a combined nurses' training school and nurses' home. After subsequent use as a carpenters' workshop, the Bexley Hospital authorities extended and reopened the premises in 1962 as the Castlewood Psychiatric Day Hospital. Its final health-related use was in the 1990s as the Signpost Castlewood Centre for the rehabilitation of teenage drug-users. After falling into disrepair the buildings were finally converted into a complex of five flats and six houses in 2011-2012, with a row of new pale-brick terraced houses to its rear and "Castlewood" re-opened. .

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