Royal Free Hospital
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Royal Free Hospital
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 4 Jun 2022
Major teaching hospital, originally founded in 1828 by the surgeon William Marsden to provide care to people unable to afford normal medical fees. It was at first based in Greville Street, Holborn, but moved to Gray's Inn Road in 1844 when expansion made the original site inadequate. In the 1970s it moved to its current site in Pond Street, taking over from the Hampstead General and North West London Hospital. This was adjacent to the North Western Fever Hospital, founded in 1870 as the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital but renamed soon after following local opposition, and which had become part of the Royal Free on the foundation of the NHS in 1948, when it was renamed the Royal Free Hospital (North Western Branch), marked as such on the 1954 1:1250 map. The current hospital building now covers both sites.
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51.553593
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-0.166492