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Simons Way, EVESHAM, WR11 1JA

There cannot be many headstones using the beam engine symbol used by the Northern Mill Engine Society. George Cooper had a great interest in stationary steam and his extensive photographic collection is with the National Monuments Record in Swindon. He had seen and photographed the vast majority of surviving in situ stationary steam from the 1970s onwards. His parents thought the headstone was a fitting memorial to his interest in steam.

The porch on the left is the entrance to the minor injuries unit while the ambulance is in front of the main entrance. One of two metal chimneys is visible. There appears to be no external approach to these two boiler houses. The hospital is very hard to photograph and is best appreciated on the aerial view. The site has a long history and started life as a workhouse in 1837 and later extensions were built. There are only two building left from the earlier phase. The current hospital was built in 1939 as an Emergency Medical Scheme (EMS) hospital and was taken over by the RAF between 1940 and 1946 for treating injured airmen. It is now a community hospital administered by Worcestershire Health and Care Trust. Other WWII hospitals in Worcestershire were to be found at Bromsgrove and Ronkswood, Worcester and I remember both of those. I had never been to Evesham and hadn't realised its history.

A 1939 built Emergency Medical Services hospital now a community hospital. Best appreciated from the air. The chimney is one of two.

This building that is now used by catering is one of the buildings from the original workhouse hospital. The main bulk of the hospital is a late 1930s emergency hospital that was used by the RAF in WWII. A chimney is visible in the distance on the left and I had hoped to find an external boiler house but it actually is within the main bulk of the hospital.

Stewart Pharmacy is positioned between Riverside Surgery and Evesham Community Hospital on Waterside and is housed in a former chapel.

Gates have Evesham coat of arms and side panels the one for the Duchy of Cornwall.

Stewart Pharmacy is housed in the former chapel on the Evesham Community Hospital site. This is one of two buildings surviving from the earlier workhouse hospital that was replaced by the 1939 Emergency Medical Services Hospital that was later operated by the RAF. This was the first time I had wandered onto this site and I was amazed to see a WWII vintage hospital. The ones at Bromsgrove and Worcester had been replaced in the 1980s and early 2000s respectively. The Community Hospital is administered by the Health & Care Trust while the two district general hospitals in Worcestershire and the Treatment Centre are administered by the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

This mark is located on a gate post at the entrance to the cemetery on Waterside, Evesham. These marks were used by Ordnance Survey for mapping purposes. Image