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Everdon Way, PETERBOROUGH, PE3 7BH

Route 2 and route 4 connect the hospital to the Queensgate bus station.

There are two bus stops at the City Hospital. One by the main door, which requires the bus driver to circumnavigate the car park. And this one, near the road entrance.

This sign makes perfect sense. During the morning and evening rush hour the buses omit the stop at the Hospital main door, and only use the one in Image That saves ten or fifteen minutes orbiting the site when traffic is at its worst. What I consider bonkers is that it is only displayed here, at Image Where the buses will arrive. It is not displayed at the other stop (Image), where you can stand in ignorance of this diversion wondering where the buses have got to.

Number 4, having fought its way round the site, turning into the bus stop bay.

Near to the Edith Cavell NHS hospital, a popular site on Sunday mornings

This four-storey accommodation block for medical students was opened at Peterborough City Hospital on February 17th., 2015. It was named in memory of Alfred Caleb Taylor, who was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, on December 29th., 1860. Taylor began working at the Peterborough Infirmary on Priestgate in 1880 as a dispenser and served in a managerial role as Secretary of the Infirmary from 1889 until his retirement in 1926. A keen photographer, he also chaired the Peterborough Photographic Society. Taylor was an early advocate of X-ray technology and designed and built his own equipment at the infirmary in 1896. The device, which ranked as the first X-ray machine in the United Kingdom outside London, was powered by accumulators which were recharged at a local flour mill as there was no public electricity supply at that time. In line with contemporary photographic technology, the images which his equipment produced were positives rather than the negatives which we know today. The dangers of prolonged exposure to radiation were little known at the time and - like many pioneers of the technology - Taylor's work exacted an enormous personal toll on his health. He contracted radiation poisoning, which resulted in him losing three fingers on his left hand and one on his right. Taylor expressed no regrets, however, remarking at the end of his life that he would have done exactly the same again. In gratitude for his sacrifice on behalf of others, he was presented with a cheque for £700 (GBP 700) on his retirement in September 1926; adjusted for inflation, this sum was equivalent to £38,375.66 (GBP 38,375.66) at 2016 prices. Sadly, Taylor died in Peterborough less than a year later on July 26th., 1927. There is a personal connection between Taylor and me (Paul Bryan) because he was my maternal great-great-uncle. Perhaps I inherited my interest in photography from my esteemed ancestor. The building on Priestgate which functioned as the Peterborough Infirmary now houses the city's museum. Sources: http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/health/multi-million-pound-hospital-block-to-be-named-after-a-peterborough-medical-pioneer-1-6571848 http://www.fadingimages.uk/photoTa.asp https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nSFcBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT223&lpg=PT223&dq=%22alfred+caleb+taylor%22+1880&source=bl&ots=DJ10IvpNYQ&sig=QBHOZYK5Czgmm7wy97jk9e5Dd-k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiP8O60q_XTAhUIKMAKHWiXD3IQ6AEIOTAD#v=onepage&q=%22alfred%20caleb%20taylor%22%201880&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IG87AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT26&lpg=PT26&dq=%22alfred+caleb+taylor%22+cheque&source=bl&ots=10No0eiUlC&sig=LmXIn2m5kFAdIQyzlM8lTzJZM3A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9zs39q_XTAhXqA8AKHWEjB90Q6AEITDAJ#v=onepage&q=%22alfred%20caleb%20taylor%22%20cheque&f=false

Parched grass after the driest summer in 50 years