Holywell Street, Chesterfield, Derbys.

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Holywell Street, Chesterfield, Derbys.

Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 22 Nov 2014

The former Royal Hospital (1859-1984/6), that now houses offices, faces the large Holywell Cross car park encompassed by various roads (hence it is sometimes referred to as "The Doughnut Roundabout"). The new Chesterfield & North Derbyshire Royal Hospital in Calow opened in April 1984. In 1986 building work began on a maternity and gynaecology unit on the Calow site and its opening in 1989 led to the final facilities in the town centre being closed. In 1984, the hospital was purchased by an orthopaedic surgeon who converted the lower portion of the hospital, adjoining Infirmary Road and Durrant Road, into the Alexandra Private Hospital. This seems to have functioned until the early 1990s.

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Image Location

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Latitude
53.238519
Longitude
-1.426555