Demolition of Bourne Hospital, Lincolnshire
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Demolition of Bourne Hospital, Lincolnshire
Image: © Rex Needle Taken: 11 Jun 2003
Bourne Hospital closed in 1998 after a valiant public campaign to keep it open including a petition signed by 8,000 people and was demolished in the summer of 2003 to make way for new homes which have since been built on the four acre site. The hospital opened in 1915 as an isolation unit for patients with infectious diseases and expanded to become a cottage hospital providing a much needed medical amenity for the town and district but now it has gone, patients are sent to Peterborough, 17 miles away.
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