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Greenwich Hospital was a permanent home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy, which operated from 1692 to 1869. Its buildings, initially Greenwich Palace, ...
Greenwich Hospital may refer to: Greenwich Hospital, London , which was a home for retired Royal Navy sailors 1692–1869, operated by the Greenwich Hospital charitable foundation Greenwich District Hospital , a hospital in London from 1970 to 2001
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Image; Charlton House: ... North East Building: Queen Anne's Quarter Greenwich: Naval College: 1699: 8 June 1973 ... Trinity Hospital: Greenwich: Courtyard:
The Inigo Jones-designed Queen's House is in the centre of the painting with the Royal Observatory also visible on the hill in Greenwich Park. [2] It may have been produced for the art collector and British consul in Venice Joseph Smith for his residence on the Grand Canal. Canaletto also produced two other views of Greenwich Hospital.
The Queen's House (centre left) and the Greenwich Hospital in the painting London from Greenwich Park, in 1809, by J.M.W. Turner Although the house survived as an official building, being used for the lying-in-state of Commonwealth Generals-at-Sea Richard Dean (1653) and Robert Blake (1657), the main palace was progressively demolished between ...
The hospital had its origins in St Alfege's Hospital in Greenwich which by the 1960s was in need of replacement. [1] In order to build a hospital with a large enough capacity for the requirements of the local population (up to 800 beds) on a small site (less than 8 acres), a single large building was designed - Pevsner described it as "an unusually large enterprise to be undertaken by the ...
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